1841-42.] DR. WIGHT AND AMERICAN PLANTERS. 33 



Results of the Season of 1341-42.— The results of 43 

 the Cotton experiment for this year may be gathered 

 from the following tabular abstract of the extent and 

 quantity of the produce of the Government Farms, as 

 the matter stood on the 1st of May, 1842. 



Description of 



Son. 



Description of 

 Cotton. 



No. of 

 Acres. 



Amount of 

 produce. 



Average per 

 Acre. 



Black Soil . . j 

 Bed Soil . . j 





New Orleans 



Indian 

 New Orleans 



Indian 



94 

 6 

 6 



10 



lbs. 

 15,923 

 1,340 

 160 

 4,143 



lbs. oz. 

 169 6 

 223 5 

 26 10 

 414 4 



Superintend- 

 ent's Farm. 



Red Soil .. { 



New Orleans 

 Indian 



2 

 2 



125 



300 



62 8 

 150 







120 



21,991 



183 4 





Deduct for 

 wastage, 26 acres 



94 





True average. 

 233 14 



Samples of the Cotton were sent home and reported 

 on by Messrs. Tetley and Earle of Liverpool ; but no 

 judgment could be formed of the quality Parl j^tea 

 or value from the small samples sent. (1847), pp. 

 The most important feature in the report 348 ' 

 of Messrs. Tetley and Earle was, that none of the Cot- 

 ton was more cut, and some not cut so much, in the 

 process of ginning, as the average American supply. 



Dr. Wight's plan of operations : introduction of 44 

 American Culture more important than that of Ame- 

 rican Cotton.— Meantime Dr. Wight seems 

 to have arrived at the conclusion that the ^teT^h S 

 improvement of the Indian and Bourbon March, 1842. 

 Cottons was of greater importance than fis^jfp^m 

 the introduction of American Cottons. 

 Accordingly, during a tour through the Cotton grow- 

 ing portions of the Coimbatore district, he had en- 



D 



