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COTTON-WOOL. 



Report on 

 Samples 

 of Cotton 

 from India, 

 1834. 



No. 11*. Botirbon. 

 (churka.) 



No. 12. (missing.) 

 No IS. Broach. Chur- 

 ka. Old dirty kupas. 



No. 14. Broach. Churka 

 and bowed, (old and 

 dirty.) 



No. 15. Broach. Saw- 

 gin. Old and very 

 dirty kupas. 



Not quite clean, a little injured 

 in staple. Value nine-pence three- 

 farthings per lb. 



Well cleaned with little injury 

 to staple. Value six-pence three- 

 farthings per pound. 



Pretty well cleaned, somewhat 

 injured in staple. Value seven- 

 pence half-penny per pound. 



Not well cleaned from leaf, and 

 much cut. Value seven-pence 

 half-penny per pound. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



The white- seeded perennial cotton, the new 

 Orleans, and the Egyptian, appear to be deserv- 

 ing of particular attention in future experimental 

 cultivation. 



The American kinds which have been grown in 

 India have the creamy colour common to Indian 

 cotton, but that is no disadvantage. The growth 

 in the United States is white. 



The Egyptian specimens, above described, are 

 full as brown as the merchantable cotton imported 

 Irom Egypt ; but that colour is not a disadvantage, 

 as the cotton bleaches well. The seed cultivated 

 in Egypt with so much success of late years, is 

 understood to have been from Pernambuco, in 

 which country the produce is remarkably white. 



May it not be advisable to order some seed to 



be 



