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the germinated plants succeeded and it is thought
that 95$ of the seeds had germinated.

Unfortunately owing to the sowing being unusually
late only one flush was obtained end this resulted

in the following amount.
Rustom 82 - 940 lbs.

90 - 700 "
68 - 600 R

The results of this experiment were reported minutely
to Mr, Eastwood of the British Cotton Crowing Assocn.

Baghdad, who has reported on it, and the samples which
were sent, very favourably, but unfortunately owing to

the state of the cotton market even if a far greater
amount had been grown its export from Bahrain would

not, at present, be a financial proposition but it
is a matter of considerable importance to know now

that the soil water and climate of Bahrain is suitable
for the growing of cotton.

Import of trees eto. All trees and plants imported
into Bahrain were inspected by Mr. Said Abdul Noor

before being removed from the Customs and a small
proportion were condemned as suffering from disease,

dust disease, scales, gamosis etc. which affect
citrus trees especially.

During gear 1349 between ten and fifteen thousand
young date trees were imported from Hassa and Katif
but during 1350 only about 1500 were imported owing
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to the prohibitive export tax which kas recently ix

been imposed on date trees by the Government of H.U.
King Ibn Saoud.