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tlian the common cotton ; but similarly situated, the pro- Appendix 

 duce may probably be but little more. 



6. The soil of the country appears to be very favour- 

 able to the growth of Bourbon cotton, and the cultivation 

 might be introduced with success. 



7 and 8. The rent of land fit for the cultivation of the 

 naudum parthee for three years is one pagoda twenty 

 fanams eight cash per cawny; the expenses of cultiva- 

 tion would amount to about two pagodas seven fanams 

 seventy-two cash. 



The rent of land fit for the culture of the copum parthee 

 amounts to twenty-five fanams and forty cash per annum ; 

 the expenses of cultivation may be estimated at two pa- 

 godas twenty-seven fanams seventy cash. 



9. The best mode of encouraging the cultivation of 

 cotton would be to guarantee a steady lasting demand 

 for the produce, the abolition of arbitrary prices, and 

 authorizing advances to be made through the Collector. 



10. There is no doubt but that the ryots would be 

 willing to attempt the cultivation of Bourbon cotton, and 

 there can be no objection, at any rate, to a trial being 

 made. As soon as the ryot found an eager demand for 

 the Bourbon cotton and a better price for the cotton of 

 the country, nothing but bad seasons would prevent the 

 increased production of the article, as long as that de- 

 mand continued to exist. The advances should be made 

 to the extent of one and a-quarter pagodas per candy 

 through the Revenue Department, and recovered like 

 other advances, and the ryot who engages to cultivate the 

 Bourbon cotton should be supplied gratis with seeds 

 for the first year. When the crops are on the ground, 

 the Commercial Resident may advance for the purchase ; 

 and it might prove a good stimulus to a greater attention 

 to the shrub, to give an advance upon the market-price 



for 



