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COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter to competent skill in this branch of agriculture, 



Bombay, i . i • 



18 Feb. 1829. should be entrusted with its management at a mo- 

 derate monthly salary, under the general superin- 

 tendence of the Collector of the district, or the 

 Magistrate, or the Commercial Resident, as you 

 may appoint. 



9. The first object to be attempted should be 

 careful cultivation of cotton raised from seed of 

 the best of the indigenous plants of India, such 

 as the Bhyratta kupas of Bengal (for a supply of 

 which you will make application to our Governor- 

 general in Council), or the best kinds at present 

 grown about Surat or Broach, which will give suf- 

 ficient employment for the first season ; and before 

 a second season shall arrive we will endeavour to 

 furnish you with a supply of green seed from 

 Georgia and New Orleans, which you will after- 

 wards cultivate exclusively, or in addition to the 

 native kinds, as experience shall render advisable. 



10. You will issue instructions for furnishing the 

 necessary funds from the Territorial department, 

 and keep us fully advised of your proceedings 

 herein. The cotton which may be grown upon 

 this plantation you will consign to London, with 

 a proper mark of distinction. 



11. We have before shewn, that the cleaning 

 of the cotton from its seeds and impurities is a 

 point of nearly equal importance with that of 

 improving its staple. Upon a former occasion, 

 we transmitted to India machines for cleaning 



cotton, 



