COTTON-WOOL. 



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What is the aggregate expense of the cultivation ? Appendix. 



If the soil is favourable to the growth of cotton, what is 

 the best mode of encouraging and extending its cul- 

 tivation ? 



Would the ryots be willing to undertake the cultivation 

 of Bourbon or Tinnevelly cotton on the following, or on 

 what conditions? 



1. That the Company furnish the seed and make an 

 advance of one-third of the estimated value of the produce 

 of the land engaged to be cultivated. 



2. That a further third be paid when the plant is well 

 up, and the remaining third on the delivery of the pro- 

 duce. The price to be fixed either at the time of engaging 

 with the cultivators, or by the market price at the time of 

 delivery. 



Samples (weighing three hundred pounds each) of the 

 cotton produced in the district to be furnished to the 

 Board of Trade. 



ABSTRACT of ANSWERS, 



By the Commercial Residents and Collectors to the foregoing 

 Queries, in 1814. 



GANJAM. 



1. Cotton is cultivated in Ganjam to the extent of from 

 eighty to one hundred thousand maunds, including seeds. 



2. The import and export of the article is so trifling as 

 to be unworthy of notice. 



3. The price is about twenty rupees per candy of five 

 hundred pounds, including seeds; eighty rupees without 

 seeds. 



4. The seeds are sown generally in the month of 



December, 



