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letter of the 15th June 1831, that small samples of 



' It Bombay, 



native cotton and of New Orleans cotton, grown ^ ^s^^* 

 on the farm and cleaned partly by the churka and 

 partly by the American gin, had in November 



1830 been forwarded to you by Mr. Martin, and 

 were exhibited to a Committee of Native Dealers, 

 who pronounced them to be of very fine quality, 

 perfectly clean, and the staple remarkably good. 

 These samples do not appear to have been sent to 

 London. 



26. Your Commercial letter of the 20th July 



1831 states that a Committee of Native Merchants 

 had reported the staple of the cotton cleaned with 

 the saw-gin, marked F (i.e. Farm), to be remark- 

 ably good, and the cotton to be of the high value of 

 175 rupees per Surat candy. This report is dated 

 the 20th April 1831, and is recorded on your 

 Revenue Consultations of the 18th May. 



27. But a letter from Mr. Pelly, dated the 13th 

 April 1831, observes, that many persons had ex- 

 pressed an apprehension that the staple of the 

 cotton might be injured by the cutting 'action of 

 the saw-gin ; Mr. Pelly had therefore requested 

 the Superintendent of the experimental farm to 

 prepare with the churka a candy of the same kind 

 of cotton which had been cleaned with the gin, 

 which was done accordingly, and produced the two 



bales marked F C (i.e. Farm churJca).^^c^ d i 



^ 28, Samples 



* The general opinion upon these two bales is. sufficiently 

 clean for all the purposes to which upland Georgia cotton is 



applied ; 



