COTTON- WOOL. 



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20 June 1832. 



which have been lately sent to India are suseep- Letter from 



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tible or considerable improvement. The cotton Etawah to 

 of these provinces, like the Upland Georgia, is of of Trade, 

 the green-seed species ; but the seeds of the former 

 are so much smaller than those which I have seen 

 of the latter, that large numbers of them are carried 

 with the cotton between the bars of the iron 

 breast-plate through which the circular saws pass, 

 and are deposited with portions of the cotton in the 

 next compartment, where the bars are screwed to 

 the wooden frame-work of the machine. These 

 accumulating in a short time, so clog that part of 

 the breast-plate, that much time is lost in clearing 

 it, and a good deal of cotton which cannot pass 

 through is injured. Should your Board, therefore, 

 deem it advisable that my experiments be repeated 

 at Calpee during the next season, I would suggest 

 that the breast-plate be taken off, and the bars of 

 it beaten broader, so as to leave less space between 

 them. 



6th. Whilst the practical utility of the American 

 saw-gin in this country thus remains doubtful, and 

 whilst the cultivators continue the present careless 

 system of allowing a large portion of the kupas to 

 fall on the ground before it is gathered, whereby it 

 becomes mixed with the various foreign substances 

 so detrimental to its sale in the China and London 

 markets, the great desideratum in this Factory is 

 (as observed by your Board in the fifth paragraph 

 of your address to Government of the 25th October 



last) 



