CONTENTS. IX 



Page. 



Results of the Season of 1841-42.... .... 36 



Dr. Wight's plan of operations : introduction of American Culture 



more important than that of American Cotton .... 37 



Early trials of the American saw gin. ... ib. 



Second Season, 1842-43 : arrangement of the four Experimental Farms. 38 



Three varieties of land, viz., Black, Red and Alluvial . . . . ib. 



Distribution of soil amongst the four Farms : method of cultivation. . 39 



DR. WIGHT'S NOTES. 

 Drill husbandry : land ploughed and cast in ridges, eight or ten inches 



high, at intervals of about five feet ib. 



Sowing in a furrow of about two inches deep along the centre of each 



ridge..., .... .... 40 



Scraping out of superfluous plants and weeds ib. 



Banking up'the ridges, first with the plough and afterwards with the 



hoe.... ' .... .... .... 41 



Keeping down extraneous vegetation until the crop ripens ib. 



Native ploughs and American ploughs compared : question of whether 



American Cotton would thrive without ridging .... 42 



Results of the second season on the Black, Red, and Alluvial soils, 



1842-43 ... .... ib. 



Comparison of^the growth of the Indian, New Orleans, and Bourbon 



Cotton 43 



Reports of English Brokers on Dr. Wight's Cotton. ... 44 



Oopum (Indian) Cotton ib. 



New Orleans , ib. 



Bourbon , .... ib. 



Third season, 1843-44 : state of the Cotton Farms, Gins, and Gin- 

 house , ib. 



Unfavorable results : their causes . . , , 45 



Comparison of the crops of the third season with those of the second. . ib- 



Fourth season, 1844-45 : experiment of treating the plant as a biennial. 46 



Comparative produce of the four seasons .... *..... 47 



General result of the four seasons of the experimental Farms : neces- 

 sity for a rotation of crops , 48 



Causes of the success of Mr. Wroughton's Cotton experiment. ib. 



1st, Influence of both monsoons .... , . 49 



