COTTON- WOOL. 



227 



No. 87. 



Extract Letter from C. W .Ti^uscott, Esq. Acting 

 Resident at Etawah and CalpeCy to the Board of 

 Trade, Calcutta, dated the 20th June 1832. 



Soon after I had dispatched my letter of the Letter from 

 29th October last, I had a drivhig-wheel, four feet Etawal) to 

 five inches in diameter, set up in the factory, and of Trade, 

 having ascertained by repeated trials that it re- ^ojuneisss 

 quired eight men to give it the necessary velocity, 

 besides one man to feed the machine, I commenced 

 a course of experiments on well-picked kupas 

 with the saw-gin, as well as the double and single- 

 handled Hindoostanee churka, the results of which 

 I now proceed to detail. 



1st. From the annexed statement No. 1, it 

 appears that, including 2 seers 8 chattaks of foul 

 cotton, the above number of men separated, 

 in an average day's v/ork, less cotton than an 

 equal number of men employed on nine single- 

 handled churkas, and a trifle more than the same 

 number employed on four-and-a-half double- 

 handled churka ; but that, exclusive of the foul 

 cotton, it yielded much less than the former, and 

 1 J chattaks more than the latter. 



2nd. The saw-gin does not separate the cotton 

 from the seed so effectually as either of the churkas. 

 Thus Statement No. 2 shows that it leaves 66 per 



Q 2 cent. 



