COTTON-WOOL. 



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be sent from Eo:ypt to Bombay by the shortest Report on 



1. ^ » Samples 



route, as early as possible The endeavours of Cotton 



' ^ from India, 



which were made in 1829-30 to procure some seed 1834. 

 from Egypt, via London, were unsuccessful. 



No. 104. 



East India House, June 1836. 

 Report 07i seven small hales of Cotton forwarded to 

 the Court of Directors by the Agricultural and 

 Horticultural Society of India, dated Calcutta, 

 19th October 1835; per ship Bussorah Mer- 

 chant, arrived February 1836. 



QUALITY. 



Very middling ; clean but poor 

 uneven staple, slightly injured in 

 cleaning, brownish colour. Esti- 

 mated value seven -pence half- 

 penny per pound. 



Good, fair, clean, and bright, 

 more even in staple, nine-pence 

 per pound. 



Not so clean, eight-pence half- 

 penny per pound. 



Fair uneven staple, a little leaf 

 remains, rather higher colour, 

 eight-pence per pound. 



Very middling, tolerable clean, 

 and good colour, much injured in 

 staple, six-pence half-penny per 

 pound. (The saw-gin is unsuit- 

 able to this kind of cotton.) 



Fair, 



MARK. 



No. 1. From upland 

 Georgia seed sown 

 in 1831, gathered 

 in spring of 1832. 

 Cleaned by saw-gin. 



No. % Ditto 1832-3. 

 Cleaned by saw-gin. 



No. 3. Ditto, 1832-3. 



Cleaned by saw-gin. 

 No. 4. Ditto, ditto, 



churka. 



No. 5. Bourbon seed 

 1831-2, saw-gin. 



Report oil 

 Samples 

 of Cotton 

 from India, 

 19 Oct. 1835. 



