COTTON-WOOL. 



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improving the best kinds of Doab produce. A Memoir on 

 new country, unfettered by ziUah regulations, is Cultivation, 

 excellently adapted for such a trial, in preference, 

 perhaps, to any other ; yet other districts should 

 not be neglected. The Board of Trade will per- 

 ceive, by examining the accompanying packets 

 marked A and B, what a very great difference 

 there is between the pods of Brazil and Bourbon 

 cotton. The pods of Brazil cotton musters are 

 large ; the cotton separates easily from the seeds ; 

 the wool is very close enveloped round the seeds, 

 thereby preventing pieces of leaf and dirt obtain- 

 ing an easy entry. The Brazil cotton-tree is 

 hardy, and after being exhausted will make good 

 fire-wood. It lasts about seven years from the 

 time of planting, and, when well up, is not easily 

 injured by weeds; but it requires watering cer- 

 tainly twice in a week during very hot weather ; 

 in the rainy season it requires little or no attend- 

 ance : it should at times be pruned of dead wood. 

 I conceive from 500 to 600 plants will rise well 

 upon an acre, and when full grown will produce 

 each tree not fewer than five or six hundred good 

 pods. I have myself counted even a thousand 

 pods upon a large tree ; but in all calculations it 

 is best to be extremely moderate, as least likely 

 to deceive ; I have, therefore, calculated only 

 five hundred plants upon an acre, each full-grown 

 plant to yield five hundred pods. Two hundred 

 and thirty pods, in general, will make a pound 



weight ; 



