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The extent to which the cotton trade in the interior has, of late years, passed into the 
hands of the European agents now established at most of the up-country markets, is 
indicated hy the following figures of the exports of cotton in full-pressed bales from the 
Berars during the last few years. 
Cotton Expoeted from the Berars. 
Season. 
1867-68 
1868- 69 
1869- 70 
1870- 71 
1871- 72 
Proportion of the crop exported 
in full-pressed bales. 
Per cent. 
- 12 
- 29 
- 66 
- 74 
- 81 
Although the figures given above refer to the Berars only, tliey give a fair notion of 
what has been going on in other parts of India also. The System has long since been 
extended into the chief provinces of the Bombay Presidency, and steam factories, 
managed by Europeans, are now to be found on the line of railway which connects 
Bombay and Madras. The screws, or full-presses, worked by hand are numerous in the 
North-Western Provinces, every considerable market of which has now one or two 
European agents established there for the purchase of country produce. 
Specimens of cotton packed in full-pressed bales at the steam factories in the interior 
of India are shown in the Exhibition, and form one of the most important features of 
the improvement that has taken place since the date of the last Exhibition. 
With the full-pressed bale the section of the cotton exports of India are closed. The 
adjoining table shows approximately the proportion in which each province of India 
produces cotton, the quantity exported, and the amount retained for home consumption. 
The parts which drain off their cotton supply are also shown. 
APPROXIMATE STATEMENT OF THE EXPORT OF COTTON IN INDIA. 
Political Divisions. 
Name 
of 
Cotton. 
Approxi- 
mate 
Quantity 
of each sort 
exported. 
Season of 
coming 
into the 
Market. 
Approxi- 
mate 
Quantity 
retained for 
Home 
Consump 
tion. 
Exports in Detail, in Bales of 400 lbs. 
Port. 
To 
Great 
Britain. 
To the 
Con- 
tinent 
direct. 
To 
China. 
Total. 
r 
’S Bombay Presidency and J 
o Sindh - - - ] 
£ L 
^ Bombay Poudatoncs 
§ ] Central Provinces and f 
'S the Berars - -) 
i 1 ^ 
, Nizam’s Terntones 
C 1 Central India 
's Rajpootana, &c. - 
§ 1 Punjaub sends to Kur- C 
o C rachec - - -1 
Total Bombay Drained > 
Country - - -$ 
r Madras 
Madras < 
CMysore 
Total Madras - 
(Lower Bengal -A 
Bcugai ]g,-x p - : :} 
CPunjab (see above) 
Total Bengal - 
British Burmah 
Total Burmali - 
Sündry Cultivation in the int 
exported 
Dharwar ") 
Koompta 3 
Broacli 
Surat -5 
Kandesh - 
Sindh 
Dhollera - 
Ringunghat 
Oomraotee 
Akote 
Barsee 
Bengal 
Oomraotee 
Bengal 
Sindh -) 
200,000 
150,000 
75,0001 
20,000 $ 
375,000 
50,000 r 
} 225,0001 
| 125,0001 
5,000 
March - 
J anuary 
January 
January 
Dec. 
and 
January 
January 
and 
March - 
January 
- 360,000 
Bombay 
Karwar 
Kurrachee - 
991,000 
25,000 
26,000 
135,000 
58,000 
1,179,000 
25,000 
26,000 
- 
1,230,000 
- 
360,000 
Total Bombay 
1,042,000 
185,000 
53,000 
1,280,000 
Western ) 
Northern $ 
240,000 
March - 
30,000 
Coconada 
Madras 
Tutocorin 
82,000 
94,000 
84,000 
130,000 
- 
( 32,000 
1 124,000 
(. 84,000 
- 
- 
- 
30,000 
Total Madras 
210,000 
30,000 
- 
240,000 
Bengal 
200,000 
Peb. 
180,000 
Calcutta 
116,000 
2,000 
82,000 
200,000 
- 
- 
- 
Total Bengal- 
116,000 
2,000 
82,000 
200,000 
1,500 
Rangoon 
3,000 
3,000 
- 
6,000 
- 
- 
- 
- 
Total Rangoon 
3,000 
8,000 
- 
6,000 
erior in Native States, produce not 
50,000 
621,500 
Not 
exported, 
— 
— 
— 
Grand total 
1,371,000 
170,000 
135,000 
1,676,000