30 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [1ST SEASON. 



hour of need, up to the Dubash of the European 

 Agent at Madras who shipped the Cotton for Eng- 

 land. Thus after each middleman had made his own 

 profit, the smallest modicum remained to the Ryot, 

 who consequently had no other resource but to sup- 

 ply the largest possible quantity. Under such cir- 

 cumstances, Mr. Eischer considered that the services 

 of the Planters might prove valuable in giving to the 

 Byots an improved system of cultivation, including 

 the picking, cleaning, and embaling ; but that the 

 real difficulties in the way of raising the character of 

 Madras Cotton were altogether beyond their control. 

 Mr. Eischer then followed the suggestion of Lord 

 Elphinstone that the Planters should be removed to 

 the neighbourhood of his establishment. On the one 

 hand he undertook to induce those Ryots who re- 

 ceived advances from him, to follow the instructions 

 of the Planters. On the other hand his establish- 

 ment would afford opportunities to the Planters of 

 cultivating different kinds of Cotton, and would also 

 furnish them with an American saw gin for separating 

 and cleaning the wool. 

 ) First Season, 1841-42: commenced under Captain 

 Hughes. — The Court of Directors disapproved of the 

 experimental cultivation being carried on with the 

 co-operation of Mr. Eischer; — 1st, Because he was 

 Despatch of n0 * ^ n ^ ne Company's service; and 2ndly, 

 the Court of Because they had no desire to interfere 

 SFnov!' with the Cotton trade, but simply to im- 

 iietuiif^ 1 ' P rove the article ; and the expressed views 

 (1847), p. of Mr. Eischer were connected with the 

 S18 * commercial part of the question. The 



three Planters were accordingly removed to the 

 Coimbatore district to carry on independ- 

 HughSs ent operations. Mr. Hawley and Mr. 

 and e aoth 29th Simpson were to cultivate 200 acres in 

 August, the neighbourhood of the town of Coim- 

 Return aiL batore ; and Mr. Morris was to cultivate 

 (1847), p. 320, a farm of 100 acres at Errode, about fifty- 

 five miles to the north-east of Coimba- 

 tore. 



