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consequently subjecting the cotton to be spoiled in the pod, We 

 were also troubled very much by Held rats, which destroyed the 

 cotton it" not taken immediately from the plants. 



Upland Georgia, New Orleans. 



And the other kinds were complete failures, the plants not thriv- 

 ing well, here and there some beautiful plants, but showing on the 

 whole a bare and scattered cultivation. The ground occupied in 

 1837 by the different kinds was about 23 acres, my neighbour Sir 

 JOSE had I .believe nearly 30. 



The whole produce collected by me, say two crops of 1836, 1837, 

 was 3 bales Bourbon shipped in June 1638 on the "JOHN DUGDALE" 

 to Liverpool weighing 4I cwt. which was sold at 9] per lb. and 

 reported as fair specimen, and 6 bales shipped in December 1838 

 containing 9 cwt. of Sea Island which sold at \s. ^\d. per lb., this 

 was pronounced to be very good, but somewhat mixed, and not 

 carefully picked, which no doubt was the case, our cotton gins be- 

 ing very imperfect. The remainder of my labours I sent to China, 

 about 4i piculs, making altogether about 15 piculs not more than 

 one quarter of what at the lowest calculation it ought to have turned 

 out for one years crop. 



Notes. 



Calcutta reports, 11th April, 1S37. 



On samples of Singapore grown cotton. See Proceedings of the 

 Agricultural Society Calcutta, Vol. IV page 48. 



" Presented by Mr. CRANE at the last meeting grown at Singa- 

 pore from seed originally Pernambuco and Bourbon. " 



The Pernambuco kind is " decidedly of inferior quality, being 

 coarse, harsh, short in staple, and very weak." Of the Bourbon, 

 Mr. WlLLIS reports more favourably. It is fine, and silky, and of 

 pretty good strength of staple; yet not quite so strong as it ought 

 to be : its complexion is good also. u Mr. Willis values fhis cot- 

 ton with reference to the latest advices from Liverpool at about gd. 

 per lb. the seed is represented to be smaller than usual in this des- 

 cription of cotton, but does not consider this as an invariable cri- 

 terion in contrasting the quality of the wool, and very appositely 

 asks how is it that we sometimes find inedible and other fruits 

 improve in their flavour or the volume of pulpy and fibrous matter 

 when the seed itself become much diminished under improved cul- 

 tivation. " 



" Air. W. C. CRANE submitted some very line specimen of cotton 

 grown at Singapore from Upland Georgia seed which he had receiv- 

 ed form this Society in October last and from seed received from 

 Manila. A pod of the latter was without exception the most per- 

 fect, beautiful and largest ever grown or seen in India. Mr. Crane 

 terms it Manila Cotton.'' From the same; Volume V. page 202. 



"From W. C. CRANE, Esq., dated 6th July, 1836, presenting a 

 specimen of Sea Island grown at Singapore from seed forwarded 

 by this Society. Mr. HUFFNAGLE's report: — 



