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COTTON- WOOL. 



Appendix, district is about three pagodas thirty- eight fananis per 

 cawny. 



9. The best mode of encouraging the cultivation of the 

 article would be by entering into engagements with the 

 ryots and making advances. 



10. It does not appear whether or not proposals for the 

 cultivation of Bourbon or Tinnevelly cotton would be 

 acceptable to the ryots. 



TRICHINOPOLY. 



1. The average produce of this district in the Fuslies 

 1219, 1220, and 1221, (A.D. 1812-13, 1813-14, and 1814- 

 15, is 2517 candies 13 maunds 7 vis of cotton with seed. 



2. There is both an export and import of the article. 

 The former, it is believed, exceeds the latter. 



3. The price of the article not separated from the seed 

 is from five to eight pagodas per candy, cleaned from the 

 seed. Its price is from twenty to thirty-three pagodas ; 

 at present it is thirty-two pagodas per candy. 



4. When the cotton-seed is sown by itself, it is put into 

 the ground in September, October, and November, and it 

 is plucked from the middle of March to the end of May 

 If the cotton-seed is intermixed with dry grain, it is sown 

 from July to September, and the gathering commences in 

 March. The ground is ploughed four times and manured ; 

 the seed is then sown, and the plant must be kept clear of 

 grass and weeds. 



5. Bourbon cotton does not grow in the district. The 

 cultivation was attempted in 1802, but the experiment 

 entirely failed. 



6. The greatest part of the land in the district is unfit 

 for the cultivation of cotton : part of the district must, 

 however, be considered favourable for the growth of the 

 article 



7. The 



