10 PERUVIAN COTTON IN INDIA. 
instalment followed. These seeds were extensively distributed by the 
s Government, for experimental cultivation in most of the Col- 
lectorates, and some of the results have already been reported. . 
~ In Coimbatore the crop was unfortunately destroyed by worms, which 
attacked the roots ; but this was simply an accident, which tells neither 
for nor against the success of the experiment, and a second trial will 
therefore be made in this Collectorate. 
` In Salem the seeds were given to Mr. Fischer, a well-known and 
very enterprising cotton-farmer. He reported, in May, 1863, that all 
the seeds germinated within a week, that the plants were irrigated 
abundantly, that he then had two hundred healthy and promising plants, 
three feet high, and that if in three years each plant yielded 2 lbs. of 
eotton, as they do in Peru, the experiment would be eminently success- 
ful. In the following August, however, Mr; Fischer expressed an 
opinion that the Peruvian cotton would not succeed as a remunerative 
erop. 
* In Cuddapah, as in Coimbatore, the crop was destroyed by rains and 
maggot, 
- In Kistna the seeds were raised by several native farmers, in different 
parts of the country, and the plants appear very promising, 
In South Arcot the experiment was undertaken by Mr. Norfor. In 
July, 1863, after the plants had been eight months in the ground, he 
had 1200 very healthy plants three to eight feet high. He irrigates 
them by means of windmills, and reports that their cultivation gives 
little trouble beyond ploughing and watering,—adding, that if they only 
yield 1 Ib. per bush, the value of his crop will be Rs. 600. 
A sample of Peruvian cotton grown in the Kistna district has also 
been reported upon in Manchester, as having a fair staple, clean, soft, 
and fine, valued at 27d. per Ib. in November, 1863. 
Some Peruvian cotton seed was also sown in the sand flats or drifts 
to the north of Ennore, in the Madras district. The plants were watered 
i gh, but were afterwards left to them. 
June, being dependent for nourishment 
years, and continue vigorous till the last 
- The experiment h 
as established beyond any doubt that Peruvian 
