Dallas Herald in Dallas, Texas

Cotton cultivation in British India abandoned after long trials

Foreign reports reveal the Indian Government ended 72 years of cotton experiments begun in 1789. The effort cost £36 000 and produced little, aside from a lone success by Mr. Shaw at Dharwar, who expanded 220 acres into 31,688 kapus by 1851 and 166,316 and 230,567 for American and native varieties by 1856. No government grant supported Shaw's work.