45. j RELUCTANCE OF THE RYOTS. 57 



the American seed or the American culture. A few Ryots CHAP. 



promised to cultivate to a small extent, but none seemed ! 



anxious to commence. Even the Ryots who cultivated Mr. 

 Wroughtoii's field, which yielded a clear profit of 700 rupees, 

 after deducting a liberal sum for agricultural charges and 

 ginning, all held back from cultivating the foreign seed for 

 themselves; apparently on the supposition that the profitable 

 result in that case was merely owing to extreme good luck, 

 and that they had no hope of being equally fortunate. 



Reluctance of the Ryots to adopt the saw gin. As 85 



regarded ginning, equal facilities had been held out to the 

 Ryots. They had been invited to examine the whole pro- 

 cess, and had been asked to compare the Cotton cleaned by 

 the gin with that cleaned by the churka. Moreover, the 

 economy of the gin as compared with that of the churka 

 had been pointed out. But still there were obstacles, and 

 weighty ones, against the adoption of the gins by the Na- 

 tives. It involved the necessity of bringing from distant 

 villages to the gin house nearly three bullock loads of heavy 

 seed Cotton to be ginned, in the place of one bullock 

 load of light wool. Again, the Natives urged that they 

 lost two per cent, more by the gin than they did by the 

 churka ; in other words, that two percent, of the impurities, 

 which remained in the churkaed Cotton, were removed 

 by the gin. Unless, therefore, higher prices were realized 

 for ginned Cotton than for churkaed Cotton, the Native 

 cultivators would be positive losers by the improved me- 

 thod of cleaning. 



gainer rather than a loser by their purchases ; for not only would the New 

 Orleans Cotton fetch a higher price in England, but one candy of wool 

 could be obtained from 3| candies of seed, /whilst 4f candies of Native seed 

 were required to produce one candy of wool when cleaned by the gin. 

 Compare Dr. Wight's letter, 13th November 1844. Parliamentary Return 

 (1847) p. 371, with despatch from the Court of Directors, 8th October 1845, 

 Ib. p. 384. See also Dr. Wight's letter, 1st September 1845, Parliamen- 

 tary Return (1847) p. 392. 



