Cotton Raw.in the Madras Presidency.The receipts of loose cotton at presses and spinning mills in the Madras Presidency from 1st February 1937to20th August 1937 amounted to 407.215 bales of 400 lb.lint as against an estimate of 533,100 bales of the total crop of 1936-37.The receipts in the corresponding period of the previous year ere 468.295bales.289bales.mainly of pressed cotton were received at spinning mills and 178.022 bales were exported by sea while 7989)bales were imported by sea main from Karachi and Bombay.l
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