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few days after the sowing;, they came up only Letter from 



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m a few places, and what did come up was Guntoor, 



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destroyed by too much water, in the Jr*alamur 

 district some of the seed came up and thrived. 

 The produce was fifty-one seers and a half of 

 Cotton with seed. Of this, eight seers with, and 

 ten seers without seed, were furnished to the 

 Marine Board, 10th July 1832, as specimens. 



Of the produce, deducting the quantity sent 

 to Madras, the remainder was cleared for seed, 

 and amounted to seers twenty-seven three quar- 

 ters. This seed, as well as that of one hundred 

 and twenty-five pounds of Upland Georgia, and 

 twenty-five pounds of Sea Island Georgia, received 

 from Mr. Brooke, 18th November, 1831, was 

 distributed to be sown in various villages dur- 

 ing the current year. In consequence of the 

 failure of seasonable rains from the very begin- 

 ning, no cultivation took place, with exception 

 of thirty pounds of the Upland Georgia. In 

 the village of Dauwamoola, in the Palmaund 

 district, sixty plants only came up, as the ground 

 had not a sufficient moisture ; this however 

 thrived, and yielded twelve and one quarter 

 seers of cotton with seed, which is now in 

 deposit. The other American cotton-seed was 

 not sown, from the above circumstances, in any 

 |t - part of the country. 



As the red cotton of this country produces with- 

 out much pains, the ryots are backward in taking 



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