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such a considerable time after the above mentioned, ripens in consequence at the period when the dews are at heighest, by which chiefly the pods are nourished, and on this account, the wool is considered by the planters not only compacter, but likewise finner and whiter, for as the wool discloses itself out of the elastic capsul it is bleached by the assistance of the dews which moisten it during the night.
After this crop is gathered in, the Planters reduce the lofty branches of the cotton shrubs, and commonly suffer them to grow for an other crop, after which which they take up the shrubs by the roots, plough the ground, and besow these fields with wheat, Barley, and Gram, which ripens in the beginning of the hot season, after this grain is gathered in, these plantations are suffered to lay two seasons for pasturage, and then planted again with the same species of cotton. In the Jambosaer, and Dolea Purgunah, these low plantations are commonly occupied for two seasons with Indigo and then again cultivated with the yellow sort of cotton.
N. 3. From Lymree, and Mitampoor Purgunah.
This species of cotton differs in growth and quality from the two former, and it is only cultivated in the Cattyware country. it is sown yearly as the former in narrow furrows at the beginning of the rains: at the depth of 3 inches, and about 4 feet the furrows from each other. The soil consists of a light yellow clay, intermixed partly with Zeolyte, and partly, with small calcarious particles, which is on account of it heating quality the most adaptible for this species. The growth of this sort of cotton is very luxurient, that often the planters are obliged to tie the branches close together as to give air to the grain, that is commonly intersown with it; in consequence, I would recommend to the planters to intersow it with the grain which is marcket with N. 12 Bagery which readily grows in light and sandy soils: The period when this cotton ripens differs likewise from the former two, which is in May, the hottest month in the year: