CONTENTS. 



1846, 87 ; Preparations for assisting Dr Wight in completing the 

 Court's order for 6000 bales, 87 ; Mr Knnie permitted to act as 

 Agent : restricted to Cotton ginned and prepared on the American 

 principle, August, 87 ; Restriction removed, 88 ; Mr Finnie's 

 first year's proceedings with the churka, thresher, and gin, 88 ; 

 Queries submitted to Mr. Einnie by the Marquis of Tweeddale, 89. 



ME. TINNIE's notes ON COTTON CULTIVATION. 



Early cultivation of Cotton in America : compared with the present 

 cultivation in India, 90'; Climate discovered to be of more im- 

 portance than soil, 91 ; Nature of the lands in America on which 

 the American plant is s^rown, 92 ; Manure, consisting of old stalks 

 and rotten seed, borieii in a furrow between the rows, 92 ; Cli- 

 mate : very humid at niglit, but hot in the day, 92 ; Rotation of 

 crops : alternation with Indian corn occasionally necessary, 93 ; 

 Capital required in American cultivation, 93 ; Successive opera- 

 tions necessary to raise a crop : cleaning old land and clearing 

 new, 93 ; Planting, 94 ; " Scraping " or hoeing, 95 ; Gathering, 

 95 ; Uncertainty of weather : average crops, 96 ; Expenses of 

 Cotton cultivation : produce estimated, not at so much per acre, 

 but at four to eight Dales per Negro, 97 ; Machinery, gin-house, 

 gins, press, and driving machinery, 98 ; Price of land : fluctuates 

 with the price of Cotton, 99 ; Minimum price at which American 

 Cotton could be produced, four pence per pound, 99 ; Prospects 

 of India ; labour in America and India compared, 100 ; Reduction 

 of the Indian land-tax on Cotton grounds would neither benefit the 

 Ryot nor extend the culture, 100. 



Mr. Einnie's second season, 1846-47 : planting operations succeeded 

 at Courtallum but failed at Sevacausey, 101 ; Mr. Finnie is dis- 

 appointed as an Agent : proposal to employ Government Punds, 

 102 ; Mr. Finnie's second year's operations with the churka, 

 thresher, and gin, 103 ; Sale of two gins to neighbouring Zemin- 

 dars : their failure, 103 ; Cotton brokers rather than Zemindars 

 should be induced to adopt the gin, 104 ; Mr. Finnie's proposals 

 for erecting a gin-house and cattle driving machinery in Tinne- 

 velly, 104 ; Purchase of cattle driving machinery sanctioned, re- 

 lative cost of cattle labour and manual labour, 105 ; Change in 

 Mr. Finnie's views as regards the cattle driving machinery, 105 ; 

 Mr. Finnie's explanation of his apparent inconsistencies, 106 ; Mr. 

 Finnie's general objections to the gin discussed by Dr. Wight, 

 108 ; Mr. Finnie's proposition for erecting a gin-house of two 

 storeys : the lower one for the driving machinery, and the upper 

 one for the gins, 109 ; Hire of a temporary gin-house at Aroo- 

 poocottah, 110 ; Erection of three gins and a thresher : their effect 

 upon the Natives, 111 ; Testimony of the Brokers that dirty 

 Cotton was more profitable than clean Cotton, 111. 



