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COTTON- WOOL. 



Letter from in that provioce, have been confined more to the 



Bombay, ^ 



5 Oct. 1833. introduction of hxi proved modes of gathering the 

 kupas, than to the establishment of farms for the 

 practical introduction of novel plans of cultivation. 



] 5. Doctor Lush, Superintendent of the botanical 

 experiments at Dapooree, who was selected to 

 superintend the arrangements in the southern 

 Mahratta country, reported, shortly after his 

 arrival at Dharwar, that the cotton cultivated 

 in that province was capable of maintaining a 

 respectable footing, if properly cleaned, and that 

 improvements in its quality would be best effected 

 by introducing a better method of picking and 

 cleaning the staple, in such manner as to increase 

 its value in the market, without adding much to 

 the cost of production ; by distributing seeds of the 

 best description to the ryots to cultivate on their 

 own account, and by establishing a system of 

 reward for the finest specimens of cotton produced. 



16. Accordingly that gentleman's attention was 

 first directed to the mode of gathering, and finding 

 that, to the careless manner in which this process 

 was executed the impure state of the cotton was 

 solely to be ascribed, he proposed, as a means of 

 remedying the evil, that Government should encou- 

 rage clean and careful picking, by purchasing 

 from the cultivators at a premium cotton gathered 

 according to the following plan :— -Each picker to 

 be provided with two bags, one of hemp being 

 appropriated for the cotton which was quite free 



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