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CHAP, 

 III. 



CHAPTER XXX. 



FOUR YEARS OF EXPERIMENTAL CULTURE UNDER 

 DR. WIGHT IN COIMBATORE. 



1845 TO 1849. 



(86.) Position of the Cotton experiment in 1845. (87.) New arrange- 

 ments. (88.) Mr. Morris reports unfavourably of Bellary : his death. 

 (89.) Mr. Finnie reports unfavorably of the Madras district : dispatched to 

 Tinnevelly. (90.) Dr. Wight's new Cotton Farms in Coimbatore 1845 : 

 four points neglected in the previous experiments. (91.) Results of four 

 successive seasons on the new Farm, 1845-49. (92.) Suggestions of the Man- 

 chester Association respecting sowing in May and on low soils. (93.) Dr. 

 Wight's reply : First, July is the best time for sowing. (94.) Second, Low 

 Alluvial soils have proved a failure, but low lands near the coast are under 

 trial. 



DR. WIGHT'S NOTES ON THE ADAPTATION OF THE AMERICAN PLANT TO 

 THE SEASONS OF INDIA. 



(95.) Habits of the American plant. (96.) Four Seasons of the 

 American plant. (97.) Adaptation of the habits of the American 

 plant to the Indian seasons. (98.) First, Seasons on the Eastern side, 

 under the North East monsoon. (99.) Monthly mean temperature and 

 mean falls of rain in the Carnatic. (100.) Cotton cultivation under 

 the North East monsoon : sowing in September. (101.) Second, Seasons 

 on the Western side, under the South -*West monsoon. (102.) Cot- 

 ton cultivation under the South West monsoon : sowing in May. 

 (103.) Third, Intermediate regions under both the North East and South 

 West monsoons. (104.) Cotton cultivation under both monsoons : sowing 

 in July. (105.) Large experiment in early sowing throughout the Cotton 

 districts in the Madras Presidency. (106.) First Result : India not too 

 hot but too cold. (107.) Theory confirmed by a comparison of the tem- 

 perature of Madras with that of Vera Cruz, Mobile and Natchez. (108.) 

 Rising temperature in America, but diminishing temperature in India, 

 during the growing seasons. (109.) Second Result: Carnatic not too dry, 

 confirmed by a comparison of mean falls of rain. (110.) Two methods of 

 cultivating American Cotton in India : adaptation of seasons and artificial 

 irrigation. (111.) Experiments in irrigation, securing a rising temperature 



