1841-42.] DR. WIGHT AND AMERICAN PLANTERS. 



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Results of the Season of 1841-42.— The results of 43 

 the Cotton experiment for this year may be gathered 

 from the following tabular abstract of the extent and 

 quantity of the produce of the Government Farms, as 

 the matter stood on the Ist of May, 1842. 



Samples of the Cotton were sent home and reported 

 on by Messrs. Tetley and Earle of Liverpool ; but no 

 judgment could be formed of the quality p^j.i Betu™ 

 or value from the small samples sent. (iM^pp. 

 The most important feature in the report 

 of Messrs. Tetley and Earle was, that none of the Cot- 

 ton was more cut, and some not cut so much, in the 

 process of ginning, as the average American supply. 



Dr. Wight's plan of operations : introduction of 44 

 American Culture more important than that of Ame- 

 rican Cotton. — Meantime Dr. "Wight seems 

 to have arrived at the conclusion that the 

 improvement of the Indian and Bourbon 

 Cottons was of greater importance than 

 the introduction of American Cottons. 

 Accordingly, during a tour through the Cotton grow- 

 ing portions of the Coimbatore district, he had en- 



Dr. "Wight's 

 letter, 14th 

 Han:h,184i2. 

 Pari. Return 

 (lM?),p.380. 



