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COTTON-WOOL. 



Rent of Cotton hands are as Jbllovos : 



Rs. a. Rs. a. 



In Serampore aurung 8 o to 13 o per connah 



Chundpore 5 8 to 6 4 



Narrainpore 50 



Tetbaddy 28 . . 



Dumroy o 12 to o 14 



Soonargong 1 2 



Dacca 3 o to 3 4 



The connah varies considerably. 



The gain of rearing cotton is about sufficient to allow a 

 bare subsistence to the husbandman, and not much more. 

 In fact, he has no inducement to attempt to get more, for 

 the Zemindar would probably wrest it from him. And 

 this must continue, till such time as settling the largest 

 jumma, and incurring the least balance, shall cease to be 

 the highest point of official reputation ; till the demands 

 of government upon the lands shall be known and deter- 

 mined, and that laws shall protect the individual against 

 occasional, partial uncertain attempts to increase the 

 revenue. 



The question about the profit of rearing cotton involves 

 the profit of rearing every article produced in the revolv- 

 ing periods, from fallow to fallow, of the agriculture of 

 the country; for as it is a strong shrub it impoverishes 

 the soil greatly, and ought not to be sown two years suc- 

 cessively in the same field. It is necessary the ground 

 should lay fallow once in four years. On those lands 

 where cotton grows, the first year the fallow is broken up 

 it is best to sow cungee or teel; the following year cotton. 

 Cotton may be again sown the third year ; but it hurts the 

 land too much, and the produce is scanty. After cotton, 

 rice is commonly sown. 



The expense of cultivating a connah of ground for 



cotton, 



