on their estates and came up, they obtained there a small quantity 

 of cotton. 



The seeds distributed among the native Chiefs yielded no pro- 

 duct whatever. The Resident blamed either the continued rainfalls 

 in 1856, owing to which the blossoms fell before the fruit had set 

 or careless treatment. 



From the Resident of the West Coast of Borneo came a report 

 that the seeds had not come up. 



The Resident of Palembang reported that the experiments wiih 

 the New Orleans cotton had totally failed, not owing to the inferior 

 quality of the seeds but through the unfavourable changes of the 

 weather. 



The demand by the inhabitants for seeds of the native kinds of 

 cotton is there, however, great ^nd sometimes 20 pickuls Ogan- 

 kapas seeds are bought at the expense of the land and distributed 

 among the people. 



Also in the Preanger regencies trials with New Orleans cotton 

 had been made as well as in the environs of Tjiandjoer; but with 

 negative results. 



On account of the notification of Government to the encourage- 

 ment of the cotton culture, the Resident of the Preanger-Regencies 

 reported that in the Southern part of the regency Tjiandjoer chiefly 

 in the Dj am pangs two kinds of cotton are grown, firstly the there 

 native cotton, namely the Kapas Temen or K. Nja, and secondly 

 the Kapas Palembang, a cotton variety which comes, as the name 

 indicates, from Palembang. 



The so-called Kapas Moeri is occasionally grown here and there 

 on the estates but does not appear in the market. 



It was with some difficulty that, to satisfy a request of the Gov- 

 ernment for some 50 k.g. of cleaned native cotton, to be sent to a 

 Dutch cotton factory for testing and valuation, that the required 

 amount was obtained. 



From this it can be seen that the native cotton planter cannot 

 deliver the cotton at the price which the Dutch manufacturer is 

 accustomed to pay in Europe for that kind. 



In his notes the Resident said — "that the native can prepare 

 from 2 piculs uncleaned cotton at most 1 j 2 picul or 62.2 lbs. of ! 

 cleaned cotton. 



" I he uncleaned cotton was sold in the Djampangs, on the spot, 

 even at the time the best prices for 10 duits a kattie or 8 duits a 

 pound, but now the lb. always costs 13.7 duits. To prepare one | 

 pound of cleaned cotton at least 4 lbs. of uncleaned cotton are J 

 required, so that the original stuff for 1 lb. of cotton saleable in j 

 Europe, at the place even at the time of the best prices costs 32-34 

 duits, without taking into consideration any expense for cleaning. 

 As now according to Trade Reports of Amsterdam one pound of ij 

 cotton of the kind described is worth in Holland not more than 34 

 cents it follows out of this that the cotton is here, at the place of I 

 production, even dearer than in Holland and that under the present j 

 conditions it cannot become an export article for the trade." 



in 185*8 the Director of Agriculture reported to Government that I 



