400 



COTTOX-WOOL. 



Appendix. December, and the cotton is plucked in June or Julj*. 



The ground should be ploughed from seven to twelve 

 times before sowing, and several times while the plant is 

 coming to perfection, to root out the weeds and grass. 



5. Bourbon cotton-seeds have never been sown. 



6. The soil is, generally speaking, calculated for the 

 growth of country cotton. 



7. The rent of the land is from one to one and a half 

 rupee per burnum. 



8. The expenses of cultivation amount to three rupees 

 six annas per burnum. 



9. The best mode of extending the cultivation would be 

 by giving advances. 



10. The ryots would agree to cultivate Bourbon cotton 

 on the conditions specified ; but as it is impossible to say 

 whether it would answer, a small quantity only should be 

 sent at first, by way of experiment. 



VIZAGAPATAM. 



1. Cotton is cultivated in this district to the extent of 

 about three thousand uncleaned candies annually. 



2. The import is very considerable, the export small. 



3. The price is from twenty to thirty rupees per candy 

 of five hundred pounds with seed, and from eighty to one 

 hundred and twenty rupees per candy without seed. 



4. The time for sowing commences the latter end of 

 May in some parts, and in June in other places. Septem- 

 ber and October are the months for plucking. The land 

 should be well manured, and when the plant appears the 

 ground should be hoed, until the plants are sufficiently 

 advanced to admit of the use of the plough. 



5. Bourbon cotton was recently cultivated at Viziana- 

 garum, but was not very productive. 



6. The 



