192 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [1850. 



CHAP authorized each Collector to purchase for trial in his Dis- 

 ' trict five of the Dharwar gins. 



253 Dr. Wight compares the working of the Dharwar 

 ight's gin, the Manchester Cottage gin, and the large 



S'iMo! Hand-gin, The report of Mr. Pelly, that the Dharwar gin 

 tu d m' (185?) cleaned 42 Ibs. of seed Cotton per hour, and that it could be 

 worked the whole day long, naturally led to an application 

 from Dr. Wight, that he also might be supplied with a mo- 

 del of this machine, for trial in his establishment at Coimba- 

 tore. The letter is somewhat confused, inasmuch as infor- 

 mation as to the relative cost of labour on the churka and 

 the various sorts of gins, is intermixed with arguments to 

 prove that the reported success of the Dharwar gin was in- 

 Machint? credible. The latter question, considered apart, may be very 

 p. e 4i g 5 a . 1P sfe briefly treated. The Manchester Cottage gins were each 

 forAmeri- worked by only one man or one woman at a time. If worked 

 gfns s Tt by men, the average out-turn of each was from 70 to 75 Ibs. 

 tore. of seed Cotton per diem ; if worked by women, the average 

 out-turn of each was only from 50 to 60 Ibs. On the 

 other hand, it was reported that the Dharwar gin, worked 

 by two men alternately, could clean 42 Ibs. per hour, 

 or 220 Ibs. in six hours. The reported superiority of the 

 Dharwar gins was equally manifest when compared with 

 the large Hand saw gins, which were builfc after American 

 models. The Dharwar gins, worked by only two men alter- 

 nately, could clean 220 Ibs. of seed Cotton in six hours, and 

 could be worked for a whole day, thus cleaning 440 Ibs. in 

 twelve hours. Whereas the large Hand gins, worked by 

 eight men, four and four alternately relieving each other, 

 could only clean about 500 Ibs. in six hours, or about 83 Ibs. 

 per hour ; and these eight coolies found the work so fatigu- 

 ing that they could never continue it for more than six 

 hours in one day. Accordingly, Dr. Wight applied for a 

 model of the Dharwar gin ; and the Madras Government 



