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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 Paiembang reported that the experiments with 
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 and sometimes 20 pickuls Ogarv 
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 Djampangs two kinds of cotton are grown, firstly the there 
native cotton, namely the Kapas Temen or K. Nja, and secondly 
the Kapas Paiembang, a cotton variety which comes, as the name 
indicates, from Paiembang. \ 
The so-called Ivapas 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 F, picul or 62.2 lbs. of 
cleaned cotton. 
“ The 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^ duits. To prepare one 
pound of cleaned cotton at least gibs, of uncleaned cotton are 
required, so that the original stuff for r lb. of cotton saleable in 
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 
cotton of the kind described is worth in Holland not more than 3.4 
cents it follows out of this that the cotton is here, at the place of 
production, even dearer than in Holland and that under the present 
conditions it cannot become an export article for the trade.” 
In 1858 the Director of Agriculture reported to Government that 
