COTTON-WOOL. 



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I shall be most happy, at all times, to afford Letter from 



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any mformation m my power ; but I will eertamly of Botanic 

 recommend you to try the plan of clean-picking in Dapooree. 

 the field, as the foundation of all improvement, and 

 I have no doubt that the Madras Government would 

 be anxious to introduce the saw-gin, which has 

 been so highly recommended by the Court of 

 Directors and by all practical men at home. 



6 Marcli 1832 



No. 83. 



Letter from the Court of Directors to the Governor 

 in Council at Bombay, dated the 6th March 1832. 



Par. 1. Our letter of the 3d June 1829, adverted ^l'^^^'^^^ 

 to the measures which, as you had been apprized, 

 we were taking for the purpose of procuring from 

 America a supply of cotton-seeds and machines 

 for cleaning cotton. 



2. The seeds of several kinds of cotton, and also 

 the cleaning machines, have subsequently been 

 obtained, and have been consigned in proportions 

 to each of our presidencies, the dates of which, so 

 far as respects Bombay, are noticed in the margin;* 

 but we have not hitherto received from India any 

 cotton- wool the produce of those seeds. 



3. In 



* Public Letter to Bombay, 4th November 1829, and 7th 

 January, 25th February, and 21st September 1831. 



