MADRAS versus AMERICA 



A HANDBOOK 



COTTON CULTIVATION, 



EXHIBITISG 



CONTENTS OF PUBLIC EECOEDS IN A CONDENSED FOEM, IN 

 ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESOLUTION OF THE 

 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. , 



J. TALBOYS WHEELER, 



RESIDENT IN INDIA. 



Publishers* Note. — This is a veiy important work, a£ 

 showing the difficulty of growing long fibre cotton away 

 from our soil ; tlie statistics here given ought to show our 

 cotton growers and brokers how impossible it is for any other 

 country in the world to compete with them in the production 

 of their sta^e comnipdity. 



NEW YOEK : 



VIRTUE AND YGESTON, 12, DEY STREET. 



1866. 



