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COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter from purities. This is done readily, after a little 



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of Botanic teaching, by the women, who separate their cloth 



Garden, 



Dapooree. into two compartments, and put the clean cotton 

 into the right side and the dirty into the left. 



The kupas after being brought home is cleaned 

 in the usual way by the foot-roller ; but as many 

 seeds break and some remains of leaf may have 

 escaped the gatherers, a number of hand- pickers 

 are placed behind the foot-rollers when at work, 

 and the cotton is passed gently through their 

 hands when rolled out, and they take out every 

 remaining portion of dirt and the fragments of 

 broken seeds. 



This is the only change I have introduced yet 

 (although I expect with the saw-gin to improve 

 the quality further) ; but the cotton so prepared 

 has been so favourably reported, that our Govern- 

 ment has appointed an agent to buy the cotton of 

 the ryots, who, for an advance on the market rate, 

 seem gradually more and more disposed to adopt 

 the new plan, although very much opposed to it 

 at first. Our climate does not appear to agree 

 with the new cottons introduced from America, 

 although I trust that the perennial cultivation 

 will succeed. As that is now under experiment, 

 it would be premature to pronounce an opinion ; 

 and from the urgent despatches of the Court of 

 Directors, I am convinced that they will not be 

 satisfied until every possible means of improving 

 cotton has been fairly tried. 



I shall 



