1842-43.] DR. WIGHT ON AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. 35 



Mr. Henry Sherman, a European born ary 5 1843. 

 and educated at Madras. Dr. Wight ^^f'm. 

 then established one farm at Coorchee, 

 two at Coimbatore, and one at Oodoomulcottah, 

 thus : — 



Acres. 



Dr. Wight and Mr. Sherman at Coorchee, about 200 

 Dr. Wight at Coimbatore, „ 200 



Mr. Simpson at Coimbatore, „ 330 



Mr. Morris at Oodoomulcottah, „ 350 



Three varieties of land, viz. — Black, 47 

 Red, and Alluvial.— The four Farms em- J^JjftES 

 braced three distinct varieties of soil, Madras 



' Govt., 10th 



VIZ. — Nov., 1843. 



1st. Black Cotton ground. Jiw^vm 



2nd. Eed land, formed from disinte- 

 grated granite, and for the most part only a thin stra- 

 tum over the subjacent rock. 



3rd. Alluvial land, composed of clay and sand, 

 which had formerly been under cultivation, but which 

 had been lying waste for many years, probably from 

 having attained so high a level as to render irrigation 

 difficult. 



Distribution of soil amongst the four Farms : method 48 

 of cultivation. — These varieties of soil 

 were thus distributed. Dr. Wight and Notel^arf. 

 Mr. Sherman's Farm at Coorchee chiefly ^|^ n p 350 

 consisted of Alluvial land ; Dr. Wight's ' P " 



Farm at Coimbatore of Eed land ; whilst Mr. Simp- 

 son's Farm at Coimbatore, and Mr. Morris' Farm at 

 Oodoomulcottah, were chiefly composed of Black Cot- 

 ton land, though both included a small portion of Eed 

 land. About this time Lord Elphinstone requested 

 Dr. Wight to draw up some Notes on the American 

 system of agriculture. These Notes are by no means 

 complete in themselves, but they are valuable as illus- 

 trating the stage at which the Cotton experiment had 

 arrived. Accordingly the substance is here exhibited 

 in a classified form ; but the practical reader will do 

 well to compare them with other results, and espe- 



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