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Quantity. 



Not exceeding 15,000 maunds, chiefly of the Mirzapore 

 assortment. 



16 chittaks of dessy kupa will give 2^ of fine cottons 

 Ditto Bjratty ditto 3! ditto 

 Ditto Bhoga ditto 4^ ditto 



Ditto Mirzapore ditto 12 « 13 ditto 

 Ditto Sural ditto 14 ditto 



Mode of Culture. 

 The Dessy Kupas. 



In Cheyte (Mar.- April) the ground being ploughed 

 up. In Bysaak (April-Ma}^) the cotton-seed is sown 

 usually mixed with ouse-paddy. In Baudun (Aug.-Sept.) 

 the ouse crop is cut, and the cotton-plants which remain 

 produce in Bysaak (April- May) following at the rate of 

 from four to six maunds per begah. If the plants remain 

 after the first crop, the ground is dug up as in the pre- 

 ceding year; and a month or two after, generally in 

 Asaar (Sep.-Oct.) the ground is a second time dug up, and 

 in Bysaak (April-May) following the plants will yield a 

 third crop of from twenty seer to one maund per begah, 

 after which the plants are always cut down. 



The dessy plants grow to the height of six or seven 

 feet. The situation proper for them must be high ground ; 

 such, at least, on which water does not settle. A foot or 

 two of water remaining about the roots of the plants for 

 a few days will do them no injury, but if it remain fifteen 

 or twenty days the plant will be destroyed. Of this kupas 

 there is a considerable quantity on the banks of the 

 Islamatty, from a little to the northward of Boolbarry all 

 the way up to Pubna. 



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