The Government did not coniine itself to one or the most a 
couple of varieties only, but, not to speak of other kinds, trials were 
made with. Sea-island’ Mew Orleans, Pernambuco and Dace a-cotton, 
and even seeds of the crops from Siam and Cochin China were 
brought over here, yet always without any good results. 
The Director of Agriculture in [857, was urgently requested by 
the Government to report what had been done in the interests of 
the cotton-culture and answered that the foreign culture under the 
Direction of the Commissary General Du Bus de Gisignies was not 
only undertaker in Java but also in the Environs ; he was so much 
concerned for the Government that a special commission of Agri- 
culture, which had sub-commissions in all parts of Java, was kept 
busy with a minute investigation of the results. 
The results were unsatisfactory. 
Nevertheless trials were continued under the direction of Com- 
missary General J. VAN DEN BOSCH and the Gove rnors-Gen era! 
Band and de Eerens yet without success. 
The chief obstacles against the importation and spreading of 
this culture were. 
a. the nature of the soil and 
b. the climate, both of which do not seem to be suitable for the 
cultivation of foreign varieties of cotton on a large scale. 
1 he Director of Agriculture reported also on what had become 
of the trials of New Orleans cotton seeds, ordered in 1856 and 
made in the residencies Soerabaya, Pekalongan, Cheribon, Bagelen 
and Banjoemas’ 
The Resident of Soerabaia reported that nothing came up from 
the seeds sent to the different departments, and put the cause to 
the old age of the seeds used. 
The director doubted this last argument, as seeds of the same 
lot, were planted by him in his own garden, all of which came up 
well. Scarcely had the fruit however, reached ripeness, than, as 
it seems the natural enemy of these plants of all the foreign cotton 
kinds, shewed itself in the shape of a small worm which gnawed 
through the seed but spared the libre. 
After this result the Director of Agriculture sent another small 
bag of New Orleans cotton seeds to the Residency, Soerabaia. 
The Resident of Pekalongan mentioned in his report that the 
good seeds had come up nearly everywhere but owing to the heavy 
rainfalls, the blossoms fell off, and the harvest was small. 
A report from the Residency, Cheribon, that in the department 
Ploembon, 10 katties of cleaned cotton could be reaped in too days 
from 5 square roods of ground. From a similar area, however, in 
Koeningan only 4 katties of uncleaned cotton were obtained. Phe 
Resident reported that there also the insects had made their 
appearance. 
In Bagelen in the department Poerworedjo and Ambal, the 
experiments proved fairly good. 
In the departments Ledok and Keboemen the trials however, 
failed. Most of the plants had blossoms but no fruit. 
In Banjoemas the seeds were planted by the European officials 
