CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V, 



DISPUTES BETWEEN MR. WIGHT AND ME. PINNIE, DISCUSSIONS OP 



THE HADUA-S GOVEKNMENT AND COURT OF DIRECTORS, AND 



riNAL CLOSE OE THE EXPERIMENTAL CULTURE, 1847. TO 1853. 



Marquis of Tweeddale succeeded by Sir Henry Pottinger : breach 

 between Dr. Wight and Mr. Pinnie, 139 ; Mr. Pinnie convinced 

 of the folly of cultivating American Cotton m India : Dr. Wight 

 recommends his removal, 141 ; Points of the dispute : summary 

 of the correspondence, 142 ; Mr. Pinnie to Dr. Wight, 7th No- 

 vember, 1848 : " I have had great difficulties in ginning, but have 

 induced many Natives to plant American Cotton," 143 ; Dr. 

 Wight to Mr. Pinnie, 15th November : " Your purchase of Chur- 

 kaed Cotton is illegal, your culture of American Cotton unsatis- 

 factory, and your ginning too expensive," 144 ; Mr. Pinnie to Dr. 

 Wight, 18th December : " My plans have all been approved by the 

 authorities," 145 ; Dr. Wight's explanations, 30th January, 1849, 

 147 i General opinions of the Madras Government and Court of 

 Directors upon the Experimental Culture, 149 ; Minute of the 

 Marquis of Tweeddale in 1847 : 1st, To relinquish the Experi- 

 mental Parm in Coimbatore, 149 ; 2nd, To establish small model 

 fields, under a practical Agency, amongst the native cultivators, 

 151 ; 3rd, To set up small gin establishments, and to keep up 

 good roads to the ports, 151 ; Limits to Government agency : the 

 Manufacturer should purchase direct from the Ryot, 152. 



VIEWS OE THE COURT OE DIRECTOllS. 



Despatch of the Court of Dkeotors, 1848, 153 ; 1st, The Cotton 

 farm at Coimbatore may be relinquished : it has been proved that 

 the right .Cotton can be grown, and the price alone remains to be 

 ascertained, 154 ; 2nd, "Agency confined to practical planters " 

 may be tried on a small scale, 154. 



VIEWS OE SIR HENRY POTTINGER. 



Minute of Sir Henry Pottinger, May, 1849, 155 ; The experimental 

 Parms have been fully tried, and their continuance would be in- 

 jurious, 156 ; American Cotton in any part of the Madras Presi- 

 dency liable to failure, 156 ; Causes of the failure of American 

 Cotton : climate and soil, 157 ; Dr. Wight ascribes the failure in 

 Coimbatore to the want of humidity, but humidity does not mean 

 rain, 157 ; The Ryots should now be left to themselves, with such aid 

 as the Revenue Establishments may give, 158 ; Mr. Pinnie to remain 

 in Tinnevelly till October, to instruct the East Indian lads in the 

 use of the gins, etc-, 158; Dr. Wight should break up his estab- 

 lishment in Coimbatore immediately, 159 ; Gin-houses at Coimba- 



