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COTTON-WOOL. 



State of Culture ^avc siven anv, or at most very little attention to 



and Irade of ~ *' *^ 



Cotton in India, the subject; and all the experiments on a scale of 

 commercial speculation which have been conducted 

 by Europeans have been confined to the Bourbon 

 species, to which the Court of Directors, in con- 

 sequence of representations of its superior quality 

 and usefulness, gave particular encouragement, 

 by importing into India a large supply of seed 

 during several years; but the cultivation has been 

 checked by an unlooked-for difficulty, viz, that 

 the consumption of cotton having a long silky 

 staple is very limited, and that the demand of the 

 British or foreign manufacture does not require, 

 and consequently purchasers cannot be found for, 

 a large supply of Bourbon cotton. 



The latest experiment for the introduction of 

 foreign cotton known to the Court, is that of the 

 Marchioness of Hastings, who having procured 

 from England, in the year 1823, a new supply of 

 seeds of the Brazil and Barbadoes cottons, culti- 

 vated the same under her own inspection at her 

 ladyship's farm near Barrackpore, and distributed 

 the seeds amonost the husbandmen in the neiffh- 

 bourhood. Part of the cotton thus raised from 

 the Brazil and Barbadoes seeds was delivered to 

 the Commercial Residents at the Company's fac- 

 tories of Santipoor and Hurripaul, for the purpose 

 of being wrought up into muslins, some pieces of 

 which are now in the Company's warehouse in 



London 



