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4 pickuls per bouw. The preparing and up-keep of the plantations 

 is nearly all done with draught animals. 



The prices lie between y*8 and fl 2 per picul (=/o. 192-/0.288 

 per pound of cleaned cotton.) 



Experiments with foreign kinds have always failed. The heavv 

 and in the dry seasons, strongly cracking clay soils, are not 

 considered suitable for the cotton cultivation, to which Tf.YSMAXX, 

 however, does not assent. 



Madoera. 



On this island also, some Java cotton and some of Xew Orleans 

 is grown. Through the low prices of European linen this cultiva- 

 tion has declined. 



Pasoeroean. 



The cotton cultivation has made little advance in this residency. 

 Rice, coffee and sugar industries require in this residency so 

 much labour that there is little left for the cotton industry. 



Furthermore, the usual secondary plants yield more profitable 

 •harvests. 



Probolinggo. 



In this residency there exist practically the same agricultural 

 conditions as in the last mentioued one yet in cotton cultivation 

 something more is done. 



In 1858 there were about 1,900 bouws planted with cotton. On 

 the sawahs no cotton is planted. The harvest is very small, being 

 onlv about I picul per bouw. 



Cotton cultivation is not liked by the inhabitants, as katchang, 

 kedele and djagong, as secondary plants yield them without doubt, 

 more profit. The cotton only realises about ^4 per picul, (/0.096 

 per lb. of cleaned cotton.)* 



The experiments with foreign cotton yielded unsatisfactory 

 results. 



Bezoeki. 



The greatest amount of cotton is grown in the Department 

 Panaroekan and that chiefly in l egal fields, yet not more than from 

 200-250 bouws. 



The cotton obtained is exported to Soemenep. The product is 

 sold for not less than fl 2.50 per picul (/0.30 per pound of cleaned 

 cotton. 



The native however prefers djagong (maize) to the cotton cul- 

 tivation. 



The controller of Bezoeki is of opinion, that by the increase of 

 the cotton cultivation, the production cannot be increased to such 

 an extent, that the market would be over stocked and the fall in 

 price so much that for the Java cotton it would be impossible to get 

 i/5 per picul. 



In Biling experiments were made, through the controller, with 

 I the 3 kinds of cotton sent by the honorary inspector of agricultures, 



* The cotton must have been, altogether, of a very inferior quality. 



