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COTTON-WOOL. 



Memoir on dav. Each zlllah in which Brazil cotton is intro- 



Cotton 1 1 • 



Cultivation, duced shall be entitled to one medal and chain on 



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the same terms ; and it a number ot competitors 

 present themselves for such distinction, in that 

 case they shall draw lots for the medal and chain, 

 and those who do not win shall have some trifling 

 reward, such as turbans, or handsome chintz for 

 jackets. If this plan be only tried, 1 am of opi- 

 nion that, in a few years, the Madras territories 

 will produce a very large quantity of such fine 

 cotton as will sell for twenty-pence a pound in 

 England, which is about 104 pagodas a candy of 

 500 lbs., a sum sufficient to yield the Honourable 

 Company a very handsome profit after paying all 

 charges : besides, when once well established, 

 something less than fifty pagodas a candy will be 

 accepted by the r^^ots for this kind of cotton. 

 The reason for not including Cuddapah and 

 Bellary as good districts for introducing Brazil 

 cotton- seed is, that during the hot months water 

 is scarce, though there are a few places where a 

 contracted trial might be made. But the new 

 territories in the Doab, especially about the 

 Kistna, the Malpurba, Gutpurba, Wurda, and 

 branching streams of the rivers, are places ad- 

 mirably adapted for a grand experiment ; and if 

 ever any great improvement takes place in Madras 

 cotton cultivation, and in plucking the pods free 

 from impurities, it will be by introducing the new 

 and better species of cotton-seeds, as well as by 



improving 



