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Page. 



2nd, Early preparation and sowing .... 50 



Drought and Grate the only dangers to be avoided ib. 



Question of manure .... 51 



Three advantages possessed by India over America in the cultivation 



of American Cotton. ... .... .... ib. 



Remunerative demand alone required in India. ... .... .... & 



Cost of cultivation ...... .... .... .... 52 



Further proceedings of the fourth season, 1844-45 .... 53 



Mr. Simpson's report on the districts of North Canara, bordering on 

 Dharwar .... .... .... .... .... ....&. 



Soondah: unfavorable from the presence of " Kunkur". ... .... 54 



Soopah : soil favorable but climate unfavorable .... ib. 



Mr. Simpson's opinion on the failure of the Coimbatore Farms to ex- 

 tend the culture of American Cotton ib. 



Recommended the appointment of a practical person to distribute seed 



and exhibit the gins .... .... 55 



Approval of Mr. Simpson's suggestions : his transfer to the Bombay 



Presidency .... .... ib. 



Dr. Wight's answers to the queries of the Marquis of Tweeddale .... 56 



Superiority of the American Cotton to the Indian ib. 



Extension of the improved methods of cultivation among the Ryots . . ib. 



Reluctance of the Ryots to adopt the saw gin .... 57 



CHAPTER III. 



FOUR YEARS OF EXPERIMENTAL CULTURE UNDER DR. WIGHT 

 IN COIMBATORE, 1845 TO 1849. 



Position of the Cotton experiment in 1845 61 



New arrangements .... .... .... .... .... 62 



Mr. Morris reports unfavourably of Bellary : his death ib. 



Mr. Finnic reports unfavorably of the Madras district : dispatched to 



Tinnevelly .... ib. 



Dr. Wight> New Cotton Farms in Coimbatore, 1845 : four points 



neglected in the previous experiments .... .... 63 



Results of four successive seasons on a new Farm, 1845-49 64 



Suggestions of the Manchester Association respecting sowing in May 



and on low soils . , 65 



