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COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter from the mcasures required to brino; the cultivation 



Collector at ^ ^ ° 



Guntoor, into ail improviuo; state. 



16 April 1833. ' ^ 



Necessary steps were taken in the current, as 

 well as in the last year, by explaining to the 

 ryots that the cotton is white, that the pods grow 

 to a large size, and that their profit would be 

 much increased in consequence of its bearing a 

 higher price than the country cotton, and they 

 were thus recommended to take pains in the cul- 

 tivation ; but unfortunately to no purpose, owing 

 to the incessant rains of the last, and the entire 

 failure of them in the current year. The produce 

 of the country cotton of the year is within one- 

 sixteenth of the usual quantity. 



The experiment may therefore be deemed to 

 have entirely failed from adversity of season 

 alone, and that it should be renewed at a more 

 favourable moment. 



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