1849 52.] MU. WROUGHTON'S COLLECTOEATE FARM. 195 



Collector however was permitted to distribute American CHAP. 

 seed at the expense of Government, and to afford the use of 

 implements to clean and prepare the Cotton for the English 

 market, and to present small prizes for its successful cultiva- g e( f l9 ' Dis _ 

 tion. No results appear to have followed the experiment JuiyNm 

 worthy of record. 



Xttr.Wroughton's Collectorate Farm at Coimbatore. 257 



About the same time, Mr. Wroughton, the Collector of 

 Coimbatore, left the Presidency for Europe. Mr. Wroughton's 

 successful cultivation of American Cotton has already been 

 noticed. During four seasons prior to 1849, he had carried Para 66< 

 on the same experimental culture on a Farm of about sixty Memoran- 

 acres ; and he was anxious that the experiment should be JSr f Sir 



continued after his departure from the country. Sir Henry me^f oth 

 Pottinger did not consider that Mr. Wroughton, any more Pari. Re- 

 than Dr. Wight, had established any satisfactory result, P- 306 

 beyond the bare fact that American Cotton of a superior Memoran- 

 quality would grow in Coimbatore, and that if favoured by Henry Pot- 

 seasons it would produce very fine crops. The Madras Go- A P ril 1849 - 

 vernment however authorized the continuance of the expe- tur 3 n 08 (1857) 

 riment under a Duffadar, who had been previously engaged 

 under Mr. Wroughton, and who was now to be placed under 

 Mr. Thomas, the new Collector. No actual results appear 

 to have followed the continuance of the experiment ; but 

 some remarks by Mr. Thomas, in reference to the obstacles 

 in the way of inducing the Ryots to cultivate American 

 Cotton, are worthy of notice and maybe exhibited here. 



Mr. Thomas's opinions upon the best method of in- 258 

 ducing the Ryots to cultivate American Cotton. ,. 



JVir. l no- 



Mr. Thomas recommended the continuance of the Col- JJJ 8 ' 8 , 

 lectorate Farm, because the cultivation of American p a *f; 1 R 5 e - 

 Cotton would never be undertaken by the Ryots, with- sii ( . 1857) 

 out much encouragement, and long and satisfactory 

 evidence of its feasibility. He believed that their re- 



