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COTTON-WOOL. 



Appendix. 10. It is presumed the ryots will undertake the cultiva- 

 tion of Bourbon cotton. 



MASULIPATAM. 



1. Cotton is cultivated in this district, but has been 

 confined to particular zemindaries. 



2. It is exported to the eastward. 



3. The price is four pagodas per candy with seeds, and 

 fourteen Madras pagodas without seeds. 



4. The time of sowing is August and March, and April 

 tlie time of harvest. 



.5. Bourbon cotton is not cultivated in this district. 



6. The soil is favourable in some parts for the cultiva- 

 tion of cotton. 



7. The rent of land producing cotton is from sixteen 

 to thirty-two pagodas per cutchill. 



8. The expense of cultivation amounts to from fifty-six 

 to one hundred rupees per cutchill. 



9. The best mode of encouraging the cultivation would 

 be by making advances to the ryots. 



10. The ryots will not undertake to cultivate either 

 Bourbon or Tinneveily cotton. 



GUNTOOR. 



1. In the district of Palnund 3041 candies 19 maunds 

 3 vis of cotton were produced in 1812. 



2. In the same year 2582 candies were exported to the 

 Nirzam's dominions and some sent to Madras for sale. 



3. The price of a candy of cotton is from twelve to fif- 

 teen Madras pagodas. 



4. The seed is sown in the end of August or beginning 

 of September, and the cotton is plucked in the beginning 

 of January. 



5. Bourbon cotton is not cultivated. 



6. The 



