150 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [4xir. SEASON. 



CHAP. Cattle machinery was much more expensive than the hand- 



L_ gin ; and if the calculation were made for the whole year, 



the Cattle machinery would be found infinitely more expen- 

 sive, as the bullocks and drivers would have to be kept up 

 constantly, even when no ginning was going on. If how- 

 ever the people would employ the bullocks in ploughing the 

 land, as well as in ginning the Cotton, they might reduce 

 the expense ; but even then, the capital required for setting 

 up such an establishment would exhaust the whole fortune 

 of several Cotton dealers. 



209 XWfr. Finnic refused permission to extend his ope- 

 Fiu- rations to Coimbatore. Whilst the Cattle machinery 



rf.' was thus being put in working order at Sevacausey, Mr. 

 Ret 9 urn ar1 ' Finnie requested permission to extend his operations to 

 soo. P ' Coimbatore. He stated that the people of Tinnevelly 

 and Madura were now sufficiently aware of the impor- 

 tance of attending to the cleanliness of their Cotton ; 

 and that the Agents were at last stipulating for a 

 well cleaned article, which was the great object to be ob- 

 tained as regarded the Indigenous Cotton. The people 

 therefore in the neighbourhood of Sevacausey and Aroopoo- 

 cottah no longer required such constant personal attention 

 from himself ; and he consequently desired to extend his 

 system over the length and breadth of the land. As a first 

 step in this important work, he proposed to extend his su- 

 pervision to Coimbatore ; where he promised not to come 

 in conflict with Dr. Wight, but to devote himself to per- 

 suading the people to extend their cultivation of Cotton, 

 and to clean it by the means already at their command, in 

 a manner more suitable to the wants of the purchasers. Mr. 

 Minutes of Finnie however was informed that the Governor in Council 



Consulta- t > 



M a n> im was no ^ di s P ose d to accede to his application ; and that 

 uSn' (18&7) pending certain measures which were in contemplation, and 

 p> 3 l * which would be communicated in due course, it was thought 



