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COTTON-WOOL, 



Letter from the Opportunity of forwarding; a small packet of 



Collector at . tvt ii ll 



Curidapah,i6 the same grown in my garden at Muddenapully. 



Letter from 

 Collector of 



S. Arcot, 

 7 May 1833. 



No. 93. 



Extract Letter from J. Dent^ Principal Col- 

 lector, Southern division of Arcot, to the President 

 and Members of the Board of Revenue, Fort 

 St. George, dated the 1th May 1833, 



I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of 

 your Secretary's letter of the 28th March last, 

 calling upon me for a special report of the result 

 of the experiments tried with the American cotton- 

 seed received from the Deputy Export Ware- 

 housekeeper, in November 1831, and to state my 

 opinion of the quality of the produce. 



The cotton-seed was distributed among: the dif- 

 ferent talooks most favourable for the production 

 of cotton ; but w^hether owing to the peculiarity 

 of the season, to the soil not being congenial to 

 this species of cotton, or to the badness of the 

 seed, the experiment may be said to have almost 

 entirely failed. In some talooks the seed never 

 came up, in others it perished before it came to 

 maturity, and where it yielded produce it was so 

 scanty as scarcely to afford data sufficient to form 

 a fair estimate of its quality. I sent a small 

 parcel, produced in my own garden and cleaned 



with 



