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Title: Indian cotton
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Associations Pearse, Arno Smith, 1872-
Subjects: Cotton manufacture Cotton trade
Publisher: (Manchester)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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cotton varying from \ inchto 1 inch, and varying also largely in yield and ginning out-turn. This INDIAN COTTON. 129 mixture is generally known as Berar Jari. The Department of Agri-culture has separated the different varieties, and has ascertained thedistricts in which the various types grow best. It has been provedbeyond doubt that Rosea is the most profitable for Berar and theCentral Provinces. It is a hardy variety and suffers less than theothers from the vicissitudes of the climate and from the cracking ofthe black cotton soil, which, owing to the heat of the day, takesplace soon after rains. Rosea is earlier than the other varieties, andits seed gives a high germinating percentage. Through plant toplant selection the ginning out-turn has been improved, and is now403 per cent. It is this cotton which has also been grown with greatsuccess in the United Provinces. At the Akola seed farm I noticed an experiment with windscreens, which had proved to be successful. These wind screens
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screen or mi let on the Akola Seed farm. consist of two rows of jowar every 20 yards, and leaf blight (areddish tint of the leaves) is thus prevented. Burl is now only grown on the rich village lands, and in thosedistricts where cotton is generally affected by wilt. Buri is entirelyimmune from this disease. About 600,000 acres of this cotton aregrown, which produce 1,500 bales. These have been bought everyyear by a Nagpur spinning mill. Bani is a silky, fine cotton, of 1 inch staple, perhaps the finestcotton grown in India. It was largely exported at one time underthe name of Hinganghats, but the yield per acre is about one-quarter less than that of the local Jari, and the ginning out-turnis only 26 per cent, for Bani against 35 per cent, for Jari. Takingthe yield per acre and the ginning out-turn into consideration, theadvantages for the grower are considerably in favour of Jari cotton,and consequently Bani has practically been given up. The ginnerfixes his value almost entirely on t

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