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which would, however, be speedily remedied by immigration from Mysore, 

 and the plains around. In fact, were it not for the assumption of absolute 

 right over all the lands, waste and cultivated, which are situated on the 

 plateau of these Hills, by the Todars, Burghers, and Kothers, there is 

 no doubt that many low country people, who come up here seeking em- 

 ployment as CooUes, would form settlements, and permanently locate 

 themselves wherever they could obtain possession of land to bring 

 Tinder cultivation. Should Government at any future time see fit to 

 create an estabUshment on these Hills for the manufacture of beer, it 

 woidd be very advisable, and indeed in the first instance almost indis- 

 pensable, to connect with it a Government farm, to serve as a model for 

 the introduction of improvements in husbandry, both in regard to 

 ploughing and di-essing the land, and in the preparation of good 

 manure, a department of the farmer's profession of which the Hill 

 agriculturists appear to have no knowledge whatever. Good seed must 

 be sent from England, and distributed amongst the Burghers, upon 

 whose exertions the stimulus of a premium, in the shape of a higher 

 price for barley of a superior description, would doubtless soon produce 

 a beneficial efiect, while, imitation of the system pursued by the em- 

 ployes of Government in the management of the farm lands would 

 also, it is supposed, lead to the adoption of more civihzed notions and 

 practice of agriculture, than are now to be found prevailing in any part 

 of this rich, but ill apj)reciated. Hill tract. In this climate Europeans 

 might with perfect safety as regards their health, go through aU the out- 

 of-doors labour which falls to the lot of farming men in England. They 

 do so in New Zealand, and Port Adelaide, where the climate is unques- 

 tionably less temperate than here, and, as on the Neilgherries the actual 

 exertion of European bodily strength would only be reqvured at parti- 

 cular seasons of the farming year, such as in the direction of the plough, 

 and the use of the scythe, while superintendence and instruction of the 

 Native labourers would alone be required, on the part of a European, in 

 conducting the minor details of a farm, I cannot but think that, in 

 many respects, a far finer field is offered on these HiUs to the emigrant 

 farmer from home, than is met with by the many who flock to the 

 Australian settlements. 



Here, cooly labour is very cheap, 2 annas or 2^d. a day being the re- 

 gular rate of pay for a working man who can perform any duty per- 

 taining to spade husbandry, and undertake all the duties of a farm, 

 which, in England, fall to the lot of the common labourer, such as 

 hedging and ditching, trenching, hoeing, reaping, stacking, thatching, 



