NEW OPERATIONS PROPOSED. 55 



dras Presidency, rather than in unknown soils like those of CHAP. 

 Canara. Again, he considered that whilst the American ' 

 system and general management of the Coimbatore Farms 

 might test the fitness or unfitness of the soil and climate of 

 that region, yet they would never induce the Natives to 

 adopt the same system of culture. Indeed the Ryots seem- 

 ed frightened at the immense establishment at Coimbatore. 

 They never would regard the Planters as cultivators like 

 themselves ; but rather looked upon the experiment as some 

 public work undertaken by the Sirkar, which they could 

 not understand, and in which they had no concern. 



Recommended the appointment of a practical 80 

 person to distribute seed and exhibit the gins. 



Accordingly Mr. Simpson proposed the appointment of some 

 practical person to distribute American Cotton seed amongst 

 the Ryots, and to exhibit the working of small sized saw 

 gins, and dispose of them as opportunities arose. He quoted 

 the success of Mr. Mercer, a Planter located in Dharwar, 

 who had already disposed of six saw gins to the Natives in 

 the Southern Mahratta country. He urged that the cost of 

 such an establishment would be trifling in comparison with 

 the sums expended on the experimental Farms afc Coimba- 

 tore. Finally, he recommended the Bellary district, in the 

 neighbourhood of Hurryhur, as the best locality for com- 

 mencing the operations he had indicated. 



Approval of Mr. Simpson's suggestions : his trans- 81 

 fer to the Bombay Presidency. The Marquis of Tweed- 

 dale seems to have entirely approved of the suggestions 

 *Mr. Simpson, and so also did the Court of Directors. Cir- Return ar 

 cumstances, however, appear to have interfered with his m - pis- 



patch from 



being located in Bellary, and his services were transferred ^"Jc'tors^ 

 to the Government of Bombay. i845 ct ibi<i 



p. 384. 



