1842-43.] DR. WIGHT ON AMERICAN AGRIOtTLTrRE. 35 



Mr. Henry Sherman, a European born ary, i843. 

 and educated at Madras. Dr. Wight fiM^)^!'S 

 then established one farm at Coorchee, 

 two at Coimbatore, and one at Oodoomulcottah, 

 thus : — 



Dr. Wight and Mr. Sherman at Coorchee, about 200 



Dr. Wight at Coimbatore, „ 200 



Mr. Simpson at Coimbatore, „ 330 



Mr. Morris at Oodoomulcottah, „ 350 



Three varieties of land, viz. — Black, 47 



Red, and Alluvial.— -The four Farms em- irtieTShl 

 braced three distinct varieties of soil, 5?adras 



' Govt., lOth 

 VIZ. — Nov., 18«. 



1st. Black Cotton ground. _ fiswjfp.te™ 



2nd. Red land, formed from disinte- 

 grated granite, and for the most part only a thin stra- 

 tum OTer the subjacent rock. 



3rd. Alluvial land, composed of clay and sand, 

 which had formerly been under cultivation, but which 

 had been lying waste for many years, probably from 

 having attained so high a level as to render irrigation 

 difficult. 



Distribution of soil amongst the fonr Farms : method 48 

 of cultivation. — These varieties of soil 

 were thus distributed. Dr. Wight and Notes.^arf. 

 Mr. Sherman's Farm at Coorchee chiefly ^|^r" gj^ 

 consisted of Alluvial land ; Dr. Wight's 

 Farm at Coimbatore of Eed land ; whilst Mr. Simp- 

 son's Farm at Coimbatore, and Mr. Morris' Farm at 

 Oodoomulcottah, were chiefly composed of Black Cot- 

 ton land, though both included a small portion of Eed 

 land. About this time Lord Elphinstone requested 

 Dr. Wight to draw up some Notes On the American 

 system of agricalture. These Notes are by no means 

 complete in themselves, but th'ey are valuable as illus- 

 trating the stage at which the Cotton experiment had 

 arrived. Accordingly the substance is here exhibited 

 in a classified form ; but the practical reader will do 

 well to compare them with other results, and espe- 

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