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RAW- SILK. 



(G.) 1826, and paragraph 37 of our letter of the 16th 

 Bengal ^^^^ paragraph 43 of your letter to 



i4May°i828. ^^le 21stMarch 1827, we have looked into 



the Board of Trade's proceedings for the report 

 which you directed to be prepared on the experi- 

 mental plan of neez cultivation, which Mr. Mar- 

 joribanks has been authorized to carry on until 

 the close of the year 1826, but do not find that 

 the report had been forwarded to Government up 

 to the end of June 1827. We trust, however, that 

 nothing will have occurred to prevent the Board 

 from drawing up a report on this subject, which 

 we consider to be well deserving of attention. 



Extract Letter, dated IQth June 1829. 



Letter to A few bales of silk of the neez cultivation were 

 10 June 1829. iucludcd iu the late import, like those adverted to 

 in paragraph 44 of our letter of May 1828 : they 

 exhibited no superiority of quality over bales of 

 the same bund produced from cocoons obtained in 

 the ordinary way. The quantity of this silk which 

 we shall receive in the present year will probably 

 be more considerable, and afford better means of 

 judging of the advantage of this method of rearing 

 cocoons, than have been obtained through the 

 scanty produce from the neez cultivation hitherto 

 consigned to us. We see it necessary, however, 

 to notice, that we are still without that full and 

 complete exposition of the details of this measure 



which 



