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24. As Dr. Lush found on experiment, that the Letter from 



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perennial cottons grow very well without irriga- 5 Oct. 1 833. 

 tion, he recommended that the sphere of his 

 operations should be extended, and another farm 

 established on the cotton lands to the eastward of 

 Dharwar. This recommendation was not acceded 

 to, as we considered that it would be best to 

 await the result of the measures already in pro- 

 gress, before sanctioning the adoption of further 

 arrangements which would be attended with con- 

 siderable expense. 



25. Since the establishment of the farm at 

 Seegeehulee the seasons have not been favourable 

 to the growth of cotton, and the greater portion 

 of the seeds sown produced no crop whatever. 

 The soil appears best adapted to the culture of 

 the white-seeded perennial, the Pernarabuco, and 

 the Egyptian cotton, which last promises to suc- 

 ceed far better than the others. The produce of 

 the last harvest, together with that of the experi- 

 mental farms in Guzerat, was forwarded lately to 

 England in the Lady Feversham^ in conformity to 

 your Honourable Court's orders in the fiftieth 

 paragraph of your Commercial letter^ dated the 

 2d March 1832. The cotton purchased last year 

 by Dr. Lush from the ryots has been consigned to 

 China. 



27. We beg to draw your attention to our pro- 

 ceedings, upon a proposition from the sub-Collector 



of 



