The New York herald., 1868-05-30

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American seed-A General Future OmclaIly
Reported.
The Gazette or India, Of 2Sth March. contains the
following letter fr0m the government Secretary to
the Board Of Revenue, Northwestern Provinces re-
porting that the experiments undertaken with the OBJ
ject OF introducing the Dharwar New Orleans cotton
seed into those provinces have completely failed
The Secretary writes:-
In reply to your letter. No. 12os of the 2ad utmo
am directed by the Board OF Revenue to inform
you that, after persistent endeavors to introduce
the Dhary ar New Orleans cotton seed into this part
OF the country, continued during several sue
cessive years, they are compelled, with much
regret, to acknowledge that the attempt mas
completely failed The subjoined extracts from the
reports Of collectors will explain the causes or this
inclination OF the people Of the country to undertake
mover cultivation, entaillng much additional labor
Which Is by no ncseased M return ana
OF Alahabad, devoted much attention to this sub
lect l and drew up memorandum oi instructions,
the result of his own experience for the guidance OF
cutivators and this was translated and distributed
extensively throughout the country under the orders
OF the board Seed has been largely supplied at the
same price as that of the Indigenous cotton TO all who
would consent to make use OF 1t. and nothing has
been omitted which was thought likely to conduce
to the success OF the attempt to introduce better
description OF plant. How completely these enleav
ors have failed VIII be seen from the following re-
DEHRA DoON.-Wbere the American seed has been
sown the turn out has been much the same as that
~
the yield Of the original imported seed has been
found to retain Its excellence The price obtained
for the American cotton In the market is trife less
than that which indigenous cotton fetches; the peo
pic however, do not like the produce OF the import
ed cotton seed 80 well as their own they say Is less
warm; they further say that Is Is not SO lasting.
Taking all things together, cannot say that think
the result of the experiment has been very success
SCHARUNPORE.-The attempt to improve the quail
ity OF the cotton in this district has proved entire
failure. The zimindars in general say that as the
imported cotton seed requires more care and labor
than the country seed, and as its produce does not
In general command a higher price In the market
| they prefer sowing the latter.
MOZUPFERNUGGER.-Few or no good results have
been derived from the seed distributed In many
the plant did not fOwer In others the pod did not
rive at maturity; even where the cotton was yielded
In fair quantity and was admitted to be OF superior
quality the Outturn was not remunerative, and the
cultivators dislike growing 1t because 1t requires
more care and labor
advantage whatever has been gained in this district
towards the improvement OF the cotton crops by the
New Orleans cotton in the past three years has ex-
tended over 1872 beegahs (eghty-two acresl and gen.
ersly the crops appear TO have e. failed ale In cases @
| average weight does not appear to have ex-
Genl ceeded Ave ors seers ~ per beegaa sixteen
Out-turn averages thirty three seers per beegah
| lone hundred pounds per acre) The imported plant
injure the country plant, and the general reports
show that any out-turn at all from the imported seed
| is the exception No cotton grown from the i'm.
|
ALLYdnUR.-The attempt to improve the quality
OF the cotton In this district has proved entire
| failure.
| KUMAoN.-The samples OF cotton seed received
from I'll the - board MhiSh were sown in the Bhabur ap
| MUrTRA.-The seed received from the board was
distributed to he pr &prncpal zendas Win nI,r iI n
| The result has not been satisfactory, Us compared
with the ordinary country cotton. The yield OF
| the government seed commands no better price
In the market IL may be noted that the Zemindars
fail to appreciate the advantages Of the foreign
seed. i have never known an instance In which
they have voluntarily come forward and been really
eager to receive 1t; they take II merely because they
think by doing so thdy win please the government.
For the future am not prepared to recommend fur
| ther grants OF seed in this district.
MyNPooRIE-I regret to say that the American
son for sowing and the mode OF cultivation differ III
many respects from the cotton to which they are ac-
custOmed, and those who have tried the experiment
have not succeeded with IT. they urge that the weed
ing and clearing rs too aborious and expensive for
ETAwAH.IThe experiment is 1885 proved tota,
failure; 1t also failed In 1885. In pergunnah only
nifcant to allow Of any reliable conclusions being
| drawn from It, The supply received In July last was
| too late for use this year.
| AGRA.-The zemlndars do not care to take the cot
ton seed supplied by the Board; whether from bad bad
Or npt e % so ne
or II IL does germinate and come to maturity, the
produce Of cotton is very insignificant. am sorry
to report that SO far as can learn, no advantage
whatever has been gained by the Importation into
| this district OF foreign seed.
| ETAH.-None Of the seed which was purchased by
the zemindars and sown by them succeeded. AS an
experiment Isowed some OF the seed which the board
sent last year, terminated perfectly but the heavy
rains injured the plants. also sOwed Of the
seed produced here from the imported seed; the
plants from 1t are fair but have suffered from the
rain.
FURBucKABAD.-The cultivation OF the New Orleans
cotton seed was attempted In In no less than one
hundred and eighty villages but proved total
BuDAoS.-Nothing came Of the experiment. The
t,latn that fhn
ported seed requires labor and constant watch.
| Ing than they can or care to give.
| MORADABAD.-The result OF the sOwings seems to
| have been unsuccessful; the andholders took very
| little interest IN the matter, and from what can
learn she plants weTed adH psSdace a mo mo-
germiEae, and where II did so the out turn too
poor and scanty to induce second trial.
| JAUNPORE.-The cultivation or the acClimatZed
| New Orleans Gotten seed was unsuccessful IN this
| district.
| HUMEERPoRB.-The experiment was failure.
| FUTTEHPORE.-The seed distributed throughout
the district during the past three does not ap
pear to have succeeded. In some localities 1t did
not even gerIninate in others the plants grew to
| fair height but produced no flowers This year the
tehsdars were directed to sow some OF the seed In
fields In the vicinity OF their tehslls. The plants
| came up exceedingly well, but owing to excessive
and violent rain In September and october every
In Collectors garden but In spite Of every care
| and attention the entire sowing has failed.
/ BAHDA.-The seed sown In 1859 and 1897 is general.
" said to have germinaed, and In instances to
have lowered, but in no instance was there any pro-
| duCe.
| GORuCKPoRE.-Mr. Cooke distributed the seed TO
several OF his cultivatos, and reported that ger
minated freely: cotton was plentiful and too hne
Mr. Peppe has also reported that the seed germlnated
freely. The native subcollectors report that those
who sowed the seed got very little produce, and
hence they do not ike to buy any more OF e.; they
prefer the country seed which they SOW with urhur.
GHAzEEPoRE.-The experiment was failure.
| BUsTEE.-But o small quantity OF the American
seed supplied 10 this district germinated, and that
| which did withered when few inches high. Dlrec-
tlons for sowing and cuvating were explained fully
to all who took the seed. Last year and this year
sowed some OF the seed In my garden with the view
OF testing its superiority over country seed; that
sown last year did not germinate, and though this
year IL has come up, the plants appear so weakly
that do not anticipate they VIII survive month or
| six weeks IL VIII be useless sending more seed to
this district
| BENAREs-The seed was distributed TO selected
landholders with nunctons TO observe the ins.ruc.