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COTTON- WOOL. 



Report on 



Samples 

 of Cotton 

 from India, 

 May 1834. 



Parcel. 21b. the same 

 growth without seed. 



Parcel. 1 ^ lb. from New 

 Orleans'* seed, district of 

 Salem, with the seed. 



Parcel. 21b. picked at Ma- 

 dras from cotton re- 

 ceived from Tinnevelly 

 with the seed. 



1 Parcel. Seed unknown. 

 From Coimbatore with 

 the seed. 



Much injured in cleaning, 

 a good deal of short staple, 

 and much stained. About 

 six-pence halfpenny per 

 pound. 



This is fine cotton with 

 pretty good staple. 



Very clean, of good qua- 

 lity and strong fibre, but 

 uneven as to length of sta- 

 ple; part of it is very short. 

 Estimated value about eight- 

 pence per pound. 



Fine, but of uneven sta- 

 ple, and for the most part 

 very tender. 



No. 100. 



Report on 

 Samples 

 of Cotton 

 from India, 

 Feb. 1835. 



No. 1. Report on eighteen bales of Cotton from the 

 Experimentcil Farm in Giizerat, received per ship 

 Protector in IS33, dated East-India House, Febru- 

 ary 1835. 



MARK. 



8 Bales 



EF 



QUALITY. 



4 bales quite clean and bright 

 cotton. 



4 bales nearly the same but with 

 a little of the leaf remaining. 



The whole much injured in the 

 staple by ginning. Present value 

 five-pence 



