88 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [2ND. SEASON. 



CHAP, out by the Court of Directors, had arrived in Madras, 

 - and been used in Coimbatore instead of the churka, 

 's but had not turned out perfectly satisfactory. It clean- 

 1 \*$. ed the Cotton far more thoroughly than the churka ; 

 tarn" (1847) but notwithstanding the favorable report of Messrs. Tetley 

 and Earle, it certainly so far injured the staple, as 

 to render it less suitable to the Native spinning. Again 

 the working of the gin was nearly as expensive and 

 infinitely more laborious than that of the churka ; as eight 

 strong men turning the gin, could scarcely clean as much 

 daily as ten or twelve feeble old women or children could 

 clean with the churka. 



40 S econd Season, 184243 s arrangement of the four 



Dr. wight's Experimental Farms. The arrangements already iridicat- 

 Ymericaa 11 ed are carried out at the close of the first season. Mr. Hawley 

 Agricui- the Planter was transferred to the Bombay Government, but 

 February his place was filled by Mr. Henry Sherman, a European born 

 Sfilir 1 and educated at Madras. Dr. Wight then established one 



(Io47; p. 



350t farm at Coorchee, two at Coimbatore, and one at Oodoomul- 

 cottah, thus : 



Acres. 



Dr. Wight and Mr. Sherman at Coorchee, . . About 200 

 Dr. Wight at Coimbatore, ................... 200 



Mr. Simpson at Coimbatore ....... . .......... 330 



Mr. Morris at Oodoomulcottah , .......... ,. . . 350 



47 Three varieties of land, viz. Black, Red and Allu- 



's vial, The four Farms embraced three distinct varieties of 



letter, to >i 



the Madras SOll, VIZ. 



Govt. 10th 



Nov. 1843, 



Pari. Re. i s t. Black Cotton ground. 



turn (1847) 

 p. 360. 



2nd. Red land, formed from disintegrated granite, and 

 for the most part only a thin stratum over the subjacent 

 rock. 



