4 pickuis per bouw. The preparing and up-keep of the plantations 
is nearly all done with draught animals. 
The prices lie between f8 and f 12 per picul {=fo. 192-/0.288 
per pound of cleaned cotton.) 
Experiments with foreign kinds have always failed. The heavy 
and in the dry seasons, strongly cracking clay soils, are not 
considered suitable for the cotton cultivation, to which TkYSMANN, 
however, does not assent. 
MADOERA. 
On this island also, some Java cotton and some of New 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. 
fn 1858 there were about 1,900 bouws planted with cotton. On 
(lie sawa hs no cotton is planted. The harvest is very small, being 
only about r 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 per picul, (/0.096 
per lb. of cleaned cotton.)* 
The experiments with foreign cotton yielded unsatisfactory 
results. 
Bezoekl 
The greatest amount of cotton is grown in the Department 
Panaroekan and that chiefly in 'regal fields, yet not more than from 
200-250 bouws. 
The cotton obtained is exported to Soemenep. The product is 
sold for not less than /12.50 per picul (/b.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 
fS pet picul. 
1 n Piling experiments were made, through the controller, with 
the 3 kinds of cotton sent by the honorary inspector of agricultures, 
* The cotton must have been, altogether, of a very inferior quality. 
