COTTON-WOOL. 



203 



No. 82. 



Extract Letter from C. Lush, Esq,, Superintendent 

 of the Botanic Garden at Dapooree, Poona, 

 dated the 1 \ th January 1832. 



I have the pleasure of enclosing such papers as Letter from 



. J Superintendei 



I have by me on the subject or Whitney s saw- of Botanic 

 gin. One of these machines is about to be Dapooree. 

 erected in Dharwar, and on its arrival I will require 

 some one in my absence to send you a drawing 

 and particular description. 



The process of cotton-cleaning which I have 

 hitherto adopted here has been quite independent 

 of this or any other machine. The presence of 

 the leaf which grows under the cotton-pod, is the 

 main cause of the inferiority of our Indian cottons 

 in the English market : this, with other impurities, 

 gets into the mass of cotton in the act of picking 

 in the field, and under ordinary circumstances 

 cannot afterwards be got rid of. The radical 

 remedy for this is to pick the cotton in the field 

 with greater care, as is done in America, by care- 

 fully pulling the cotton out of the pod and not 

 snatching at the pod itself, and separating the 

 cotton picked into two portions, one of the first 

 quality free from leaf and dirt, and the other such 

 as may be entangled with the leaf and other im- 

 purities. 



