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COTTON-WOOL. 



Appendix, not alluded to in the report, but the export from the dis- 

 trict is known to be very extensive. 



3. Until April 1812, the price of cotton was at fourteen 

 pagodas per candy of five hundred pounds; it increased 

 to thirty pagodas in that year. In 1813 the cultivation 

 continued limited, and the price rose to, from thirty-eight 

 to forty-five pagodas per candy, which latter price is now 

 current. 



4. This district produces three different kinds of cotton ; 

 the naudum, copum, and shemparthee. The naudum 

 parttee is literally a triennial shrub : it is sown upon red 

 soil intermixed with sand, most frequently covered with 

 small stones. The mode of cultivating it is first by pen- 

 ning cattle on the ground for the purpose of manuring it> 

 and when sufficiently prepared by ploughing it from four 

 to twelve times, according to the degree of manure that 

 has been applied, the seed is sown in the months of Sep- 

 tember and October alono: with some of the coarser grains, 

 such as gram, shumay, &c. In May, a first plucking 

 takes place, in January succeeding a second, and a third 

 in September, the whole producing sixteen-fold. The 

 copum parthee is sown in rich black ground ; it requires 

 nine times ploughing, but no manure is necessary. It is 

 an annual, and produces two crops, the return of which 

 is sixteen-fold. The shem parthee grows to a large plant ; 

 it is cultivated in gardens and used only for spinning 

 braminical threads. 



5. The Bourbon cotton is not generally produced in 

 the district. It was introduced about eight years ago, in 

 the hope that it might be generally cultivated; but as 

 there was no demand for its encouragement, the culture 

 lasted for four or five years and was then discontinued : 

 a small quantity is however kept up in some part of the 

 district. It appears to be a much more luxuriant shrub 



than 



