316 
COTTON PRODUCED ON THE GARROW HILLS. 
Oar next paper contains remarks on 
Bourbon cotton grown at Cattack, and its 
staple for spinning, communicated by Mr. 
J . T. Weekes. This gentleman states that 
a beegah of land might be made with little 
trouble to nett upwards of 20 rupees per 
annum. In a beegah of ground containing 
about 320 plants, he made ninepiecesof cloth, 
each piece 1 yard wide, 12 in length, making a 
total of 108 yards. The expense in making 
was one rupee eight annas for each piece ; in 
making the thread 12 annas, and to the 
weavers 12 annas, the selling price of which 
is 3 rupees 12 annas. The writer adds — 
“ That a piece of cloth of equal length and 
breadih might he made by a Native for 1 Rupee, 
my calculation then stands thus : 
P.ent of I hcegah of good land, Re. 4 
This heegali will contain between 6 and 700 
plants, which will produce cotton, an- 
mmlly, for 20 pieces of cloth, 20 
Total expense to a Native farmer, Rs. 34 
Selling price of the above cloth, 60 
Profit, Rs. 46 
Deduct half for any possible errors, 
accidents &c. &e. 23 
Nett animal profit on 1 beegah, .. .. .. Rs 23 
My having made 9 prieces from half a beegah of 
inferior soil without any trouble or care places the 
correctness of my calculation beyond dispute, and 
the fact only requires to be made known, by a few 
hundred notices iiiNagree and Bengalte, and ilistii- 
buted to all ilie Collectors with inslrnciions for piibtt - 
city being given to them to the Mokuddnmsand oihei 
beads of villages wiihin their Collecloiate. to attiuci 
the notice of the Native community . I believe tliei e 
is no dili'ereiice between the Bourbon cotton and 
that denominated Sea Island, and I never saw 
plants more hardy or require less caie. Putting 
the seed into the ground at the commencement of 
the tains (which should be well turned up) is tlie 
piiiicipal part of the labour, ill 85 day s tlie plants 
will he in flower, and cotton may he gaiheied 9 
months in the year, and they will continue 8 or 
10 years: mine were planted In 1827, and from 
the produce I have annually made pillows, bedding, 
&c. &c. but was resolved during tlie past season 
on ascertaining the annual value of half a lieegali, 
wliicb has given the lesult now conununicated. 1 
should observe that at the commencement of the 
tains of each year I take the shears and clip the 
plants down to about 4 feet, their average height 
at the close of the rains will he about 7 feel- I 
have fiequeutly transplanted them duiing the 
rains when in full leaf and bud and saved the 
gathering. One man is capable of taking care of 3 
heegalis. A muster of the cotton accompanies.*' 
The next paper is from Capt. Bogle on 
the native cotton produced on the Garrow 
hills. The Garrows inhabit an extensive 
tract of the Gowalparah district, and are de- 
pendent for subsistence on the means of 
barter, which the growth of cotton amongst 
their hills enables them to carry on with 
their neighbours in the plains below, who 
again export it to the adjoining districts of 
Assam, Rungpore, Diuapore, Mymunsing, 
Dacca, &c. &c. The cotton grown is of 
that description called cupass or the desee 
cotton, which is commonly grown through- 
out the countries to the eastern side of 
British India, and more or less throughout 
Lower Bengal and some parts of the Coro- 
mandel Coast. It is coarse and short in fibre, 
and very difficult of separation from its seed ; 
and, although strong in its nature, especially 
when very fresh, it possesses no other de- 
sirable quality for the machine-spinner. 
The seed is small in size, furred over with a 
yellowish green fur, and abundantly covered 
with wool. The soil and climate of its site 
of culture would be favorable to the growth 
of new and better kinds of cotton, and^ 
which would rank higher in value by from 
50 to 100 per cent. Some specimens of 
cotton have been imported from Liverpool, 
with the following particulars of prices. 
“ Specimens of sundry cottons as uiidermeiition- 
od, forwarded by Messrs. Daniel and Thomas 
Willis, of Liverpool, to Messrs. Willis and Earle, 
of Calcutta, and received per ilie ,)>amuel Brown 
in tlie mouth of May, 1832. 
Their several values are affixed as separately esti- 
mated h) two eminent Liverpool cotlon brokers in 
the month of October, 1831. 
ESTIM AT ED VALUE, 
Per Messrs. Salisbury. Turner., and Earle, 
Brokers, Liverpool, October, 1831. 
Sea Island. 
No. i Ootnmon, 
2. Good, 
S. Fine, 
4. Very flue, 
Egyptian. 
No .1. Middlinj;, 
2 Good, 
3. Fine, 
Orleans. 
No. 1. Ordinary, 
*2. Good fair, 
d. 
10 
13 
18 
2-6 
n 
8 
3. vine, 
Bowed . 
d. 
No. 1. Ordinary, .... 
•2. Fair, ” 
.... S| 
3- Fine, 
7 
Mobile. 
No. 1. Ordinaiv, .... 
5 
2. Good fair, . 
5| 
3. Fine, 
.... cl 
Pernambuco. 
No. 1 . Middling, . - . . 
.... 
‘2. Good (air, . . . . 
3. Fine, 
Bahia, 
N’o. 1. Ordinary, .... 
... 6 
2. Fair, 
.... 6| 
3. Good, .... 
. . . • 
7 
M aranhani . 
No. 1. Middling, 
.. . 
.... 6i 
2. Fair, 
3. Fine, 
