52 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [4xH. SEASON. 



CHAP, other kinds of grain, and where it was sown alone, the land 

 ! was insufficiently prepared. Indeed the successful and pro- 

 fitable culture of Cotton required the investment of more 

 capital and harder labour than was encouraged by local cir- 

 cumstances and existing prices. 



74 Cost of cultivation. As regarded the cost of cultivation, 

 Mr. Wroughton exhibited the following tables, exhibiting 

 the amount of charges incurred at Ootacamund on twenty 

 two cawnies, or about thirty acres of land; from which it will 

 be seen that more than 25,000 Ibs. of seed Cotton, producing 

 nearly 7000 Ibs. of wool, were obtained at a cost of d32. 



Memorandum of charges incurred for the cultivation of 

 Cotton at Ootacamund, from 1st July 1844 to 30th June 

 1845. 



. s. d. 

 Assessment of about thirty acres of 



cowle lands - 2 8 5J 



Charges for ploughing lands 2 8 



do. for weeding 2 5 4J 



do. for gathering produce - - 7 12 8J 



do. for taking out unclean ed Cot- 

 ton at Coimbatore - 5 16 6f 

 Ginning and packing - - 2 1911| 

 Value of gunny bags purchased for 



Cotton bales, &c. - 4 3 8 



Value of ropes for Cotton bales, &c. 0159 



Hire for sewing gunny bags - - 8 7J 



do. for conveying Cotton on carts - 1 12 6 



Pay of a cooly - 1 4 3 



Value of bamboo mats - 30 



do. of a large bamboo basket 2 



Total. .32 10 



