COTTON- WOOL. 



197 



No. 78. 



Letter from the Secretary to the Agricultural and 

 Horticultural Society of India to the Secretary to 

 the Board of Trade at Calcutta, dated the I9th 

 July 1831. 



I have been requested to state, that the saw-gin Letter from 



Agricultural 



was made trial of at the Glo'ster Mills, at the pre- and 



„ , 1 Horticultural 



mises or Messrs. Alexander and Co., and at the society 

 Society's farm at Akra, for the purpose of obtain- 19 jui" issi. 

 ing an accurate report of its powers and applicabi- 

 lity to this country. 



I have not yet been able to obtain any written 

 report from the proprietor of Glo'ster Mills ; but 

 the result of the trials at Messrs. Alexander and 

 Co.'s and at Akra were highly satisfactory, both 

 as to rapidity and perfection of work, completely 

 separating the cotton from the seed without any 

 injury to the latter. It was found, however, in both 

 cases, that fewer than eight men could not keep 

 up the necessary speed, independent of tw o men to 

 feed her. 



At the trial in Glo'ster Works, the power was 

 communicated to the gin by a strap from one of 

 their steam-engines, and the work performed w^as 

 most beautiful and perfect. 



The Society is not prepared to suggest to Go- 

 vernment the best method of disposing of similar 

 machines stated by you to have just come out, but 



if 



