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COTTON-WOOL. 



No. 97. 



Extract Letter from the Governor in Council at 

 Bombay to the Court of Directors, dated the 5th 

 October 1833. 



Letter from Par. 1. With reference to the fourteenth para- 

 5 Oct™^i733. graph of our letter dated the 6th June last in the 

 Commercial Department, we now proceed to 

 inform your Honourable Court of the measures 

 which have been adopted since our last report, on 

 the subject in connection with the cotton experi- 

 mental farms in Guzerat and the southern Mah- 

 ratta country. 



2. The Superintendent of the farm in Guzerat 

 having been authorized, on the 5th May 1831, to 

 cultivate cotton on the farm at Dauda to the 

 greatest possible extent, and to state what mea- 

 sures he would recommend to be adopted for the 

 attainment of the objects which Government had 

 in view (viz. those of producing on the farm, at the 

 least possible expense, improved specimens of 

 cotton of various kinds, and of inducing the culti- 

 vators of the country to follow the example which 

 would thus be set), that officer stated his opinion, 

 that these objects might be speedily obtained, 

 could the native farmers be prevailed on to culti- 

 vate parts of the experimental farm by contract 

 under his directions, by which means they might 

 gradually be led to introduce into their own farms 



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