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CHAP. (55.) Results of the Second Season on the Black, Red and Alluvial 

 ** soils, 1842-43. (56.) Comparison of the growth of the Indian, New Or- 

 leans, and Bourbon Cotton. (57.) Reports of the English Brokers on Dr. 

 Wight's Cotton. (58.) Oopum (Indian) Cotton. (59.) New Orleans. (60.) 

 Bourbon. (61.) Third Season, 1843-44 : state of the Cotton Farms, Gins, 

 and Gin-house. (62.) Unfavourable results : their causes. (63.) Compa- 

 rison of the Crops of the third Season with those of the second. (64.) 

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

 (65.) Comparative produce of the four [Seasons. (66.) General Results of 

 the four Seasons of the Experimental Farms : necessity for a rotation of 

 Crops. (67.) Causes of the success of Mr. Wroughton's Cotton experi- 

 ment. (68.) First, Influence of both monsoons. (69) Second, Early pre- 

 paration and sowing. (70.) Drought and Grate the only dangers to be 

 avoided. (71.) Question of manure. (72.) Three advantages possessed 

 by India over America in the cultivation of American Cotton. (73.) Re- 

 munerative demand alone required in India. (74.) Cost of cultivation. 

 (7-5.) Further proceedings of the Fourth Season, 1844-45. (76.) Mr. Simp- 

 son's Report on the districts of North Canara, bordering on Dharwar. (77.) 

 Soondah: unfavourable from the presence of " Kunkur." (78.) Soopah t 

 soil favourable but climate unfavourable. (79.) Mr. Simpson's opinion on 

 the failure of the Coimbatore Farms to extend the culture of American Cot- 

 ton. (80.) Recommends the appointment of a practical person to dis- 

 tribute seed and exhibit the gins. (81.) Mr. Simpson's suggestions 

 approved : his transfer to the Bombay Presidency. (82.) Dr. Wight's 

 answers to the queries of the Marquis of Tweeddale. (83.) Superiority of 

 the American Cotton to the Indian. (84.) Extension of the improved 

 methods of cultivation among the Ryots. (85.) Reluctance of the Ryots to 

 adopt the saw gin. 



