196 COTTON Ilf THE MADaAS PKESIDElfCT. [cHAP. TI. 



Cotton cultivation in the seyeral districts of the Ma- 

 dras Presidency. 



289 Survey of the present Cotton cultivation in the 

 Madras Presidency. — In carrying out the review thus 

 indicated, it wUl be advisable to proceed with each 

 district separately, according to the geographical dis- 

 tribution of the several OoUectorates already set forth 

 at para. 9, viz. : — 1st, Northern Oircars ; 2nd, Eastern 

 Plain; 3rd, Central Table Land; and 4th, "Western 

 Strip. The materials for this survey have been selected 

 from a mass of ofScial reports and other documents, 

 which it is not thought expedient to print in extenso. 



290 1st, Northern Circars : four Districts.— The North- 

 ern Circars consist of a long narrow arm of territory 

 stretching from the Pagoda of Juggernaut on the 

 frontiers of the Bengal Presidency, southward along 

 the Bay of Bengal to the river Kristna. It comprises 

 four Districts : viz.- — (1.) Q-anjam, (2.) Vizagapatam, 

 (3.) Grodavari, (4.) Kristna. 



291 (1.) Ganjam : produce inconsiderable but easily in- 

 creased by monfiy advances, — In this district the 

 Cotton cultivation of late years seems to vary from 



four thousand to six thousand acres. As 

 ppen .. the. quantity of Cotton grovpn is so insigni- 

 ficant, the Collector merely makes a few general ob- 

 servations. He says that there is one material fact 

 which has not been made sufficiency clear to the mer- 

 cantile community at home ; namely, that the Native 

 agrieillturalist will undertake nothing new on the mere 

 assurance that it is in demand in a distant market, 

 in Tj I, . Cases where the security of profit would 

 letter, 2otii appear most periect to the European mmd, 

 April, 1861. ^^^1^ jja^^g j^o ^g.gg^. ^pQjj ^jjg Native. 



But on the other hand, there is no tropical produce 

 which the European with capital might not com- 

 mand, by bringing his capital into immediate contact 

 with the producer. If suitable money advances were 

 made on the spot, Egyptian Cotton and other fine 

 varieties could be grown in Ganjam within an easy 

 distance of the coast. 



