1819-52.] MB. ■WBOUOHTOW'a COLLEOTOBATE FAEM. 175 



Board of 

 Bfiveuue's 

 letter, 9tli 

 August, 1849. 

 Pari. B«turn 

 (1857), p. S17. 



Minutes of 

 Gonsulta^ 

 tlou, 28th 

 Aug., 18*9. 

 Pari. Bretum 

 (1857), p. 819. 

 See De- 

 spatch, ^h 

 July, 1848. 



afc that time was indisposed to eneaee in anv M"; Bu-d's 



/■■T. . ,^j ?" ,•' letter, 11th 



lurtner experiments, and passed a resolu- June, 1849. 

 tion that if irrigation was to be tried at all nssH'^'sr" 

 it must be tried by the Eyots alone. About 

 the same time, the Collector of Tanjore was anxious to 

 make a similar experiment on the annicut 

 of the river Manney ; and he suggested that 

 he should be allowed to grant a tract of 

 land, rent free for three years, to such Eyots 

 as should be prepared to cultivate it with 

 New Orleans Cotton. The suggestion of 

 the Collector was strongly supported by the 

 Board of Eevenue, but the Madras Govern- 

 ment considered that it was precluded by 

 the orders of the Court of Directors from 

 granting any such remission of the assess- 

 ment. The Collector, however, was permitted 

 to distribute American seed at the expense of Grovern- 

 ment, and to afford the use of implements to clean and 

 prepare the Cotton for the English market, and to pre- 

 sent small prizes for its successful cultivation. No 

 results appear to have followed the experiment worthy 

 of record. 



Mr. Wroughton's Collectorate Farm at Coimbatore. 

 — About the same time, Mr. Wroughton, the Collector 

 of Coimbatore, left the Presidency for Europe. Mr. 

 Wroughton's successful cultivation of American Cot- 

 ton has already been noticed. During four 

 seasons prior to 1849, he had carried on the 

 same experimental culture on a Farm of 

 ■about sixty acres ; and he was anxious that 

 the experiment, should be continued after 

 his departure from the country. Sir Henry 

 Pottinger did not consider that Mr. Wrough- 

 ton, any more, than Dr. Wight, had estab- 

 lished any satisfactory result beyond the 

 bare fact that American Cotton of a superior 

 quality would grow in Coimbatore, and that 

 if favoured by seasons it would produce very 

 fine crops. The Madras Government, how- 

 ever, authorized the continuance of the ex- 



Para. 66. 



Memoran- 

 dum of Sir 

 Heniy 

 Montgom- 

 ery, 10th 

 April, 1819. 

 Pari. Retur- 

 (1857), p. 306. 



Memoran- 

 dum of Sir 

 Henry Pot- 

 tinger, 14th 

 April, 18.19. 

 Pari, Return 

 (1857), p. 308. 



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