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ST R AITS SE T TI, E M E N TS. 
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I had hoped that some of the varieties sent might he me 
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more resistant to these pests than other£*but though the 
narrow leaved forms wei-e less attacked hy the leaf roller tk 
than the hroad leaved kinds, and less damaged hy Dysdercus, 
they like the others suffered very much from the pod-cate?— 
pillar . 
On various occasions and in various localities in the 
Malay peninsula, excellent samples of cotton have heen grown 
and in the dryer parts of the north it would have X expect a 
better chance* 
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The soil in the greater part of the peninsula is not 
suitable for cotton being a stiff yellow clay,and the coun¬ 
try is on the whole too wet, but the pests alone,would make 
it absolutely here less to risk any money commercially on the 
cultivation. 
I have the honour to be 
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The Inspector General of Agriculture 
in India. 
(ijOoo-Jan., 1905 .) Nagpur. 
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