212 COTTON IN THE MADEAS PEESIDENCX. [CHAP. TI. 



3rd. Amount of existing traffic 

 between the two places ? 



4tli. Cost of transport per ton 

 and per bale of Cotton from one 

 place to another ? 



5th. Quantity of Cotton pass- 

 ing from Tinnevelly to Tuti- 

 corin ? 



6th. Quality of Cotton, whether 

 of Native growth or improved 

 varieties ? 



7th. Weight of an average 

 bale of Cotton ? 



8th. Amount produced per 

 acre in your district. State 

 amount in two forms, firstly, 

 quantity of Cotton seed ; second- 

 ly, quantity of Cotton clean ? 



and the river Tambrapoorney, 

 unbridged, intervenes. 



Tinnevelly is not a Cotton 

 producing Taluk. Cotton is 

 grown in the northern Taluks 

 and north-eastern Taluks. Gene- 

 ral commodities pass between the 

 two places. 



Cost of- transport per ton and 

 for a bundle of Cotton depends 

 entirely on the season of the 

 year. If in rainy weather when 

 the Ryots plough their fields 

 transport becomes expensive, but 

 on the average the transport of 

 Cotton to Tuticorin from the 

 Cotton producing Taluks costs 

 10 rupees per ton of 20 cwt. 

 or about 9 As. a bundle of 120 

 lbs. 



Cotton is not sent from Tin- 

 nevelly to Tuticorin. But the 

 average quantity taken into Tuti- 

 corin yearly from the Ottapi- 

 darum, Sattur, Shenkarninarcoil, 

 and Strivilliputtur Taluks, along 

 the trunk Cotton road connecting 

 the Cotton growing localities 

 with Tuticorin, is 33,000 Candies 

 of cleaned Cotton. 



Entirely of Native growth ; no 

 other description is exported from 

 Tuticorin. The quality is known 

 in Europe as Tinnevelly Cotton ; 

 it is clean in colour but short in 

 staple, and generally^ fetches the 

 highest price of Indian Indigen- 

 ous Cotton. 



The average weight of a bundle 

 that comes from the district to 

 Tuticorin is 12U lbs. Cotton 

 coming from the interior is pack- 

 ed in bundles, never in bales. 



Istly. The highest quantity of 

 seed produced per acre is J Candy, 

 equal to IS Madras Maunds, and 

 the lowest 5j Maunds. 



2ndly. The highest quantity 

 of cleaned Cotton per acre is i 

 Candy, or 6 Madras Maunds, and 

 the lowest Ij Maund. 



