1844-45.] DR. WIGHT AND AMERICAN PLANTERS. 43 



1844, and 1845, is exhibited in the follow- 

 ing table. It must however be borne in 

 mind that the crops included all kinds of 

 Cotton, — Native, Bourbon, and New Or- 

 leans ; and that the figures represent the 

 number of pounds of seed Cotton which 

 were obtained per acre. 



Dr. Wight's 

 Remarks on 

 Cotton Cul- 

 tivation in 

 India, 1st 

 Sept., 1845. 

 Pari. Re- 

 turn (1847), 

 p. 391. 



Farms. 



1. Super- 

 intendent's 

 Farm, Coim- 

 batore. 



2. Mr. Simp- 

 son's Farm, 

 Coimbatore. 



3. Mr. Mor- 

 ris's Farm, 

 Coorchee.* 



4. Mr. Sher- 

 man's Farm, 

 Oodoomul- 

 cottah. 



1841-42 



Average 

 peracre. 



233 



1842-43 



Average 

 peracre. 



140, 



2001 



207f 



1843-44 



Average 

 per acre. 



1251 



72; 



199* 



234 



1844-45 



Average 

 peracre. 



105J 



136, 



229 



Cotton grown. 



L Principally 

 American and 

 Bourbon ; soil for 

 the most part very 

 poor, and gener- 

 ally shallow and 

 unsuitable. 



2. Principally 

 American and 

 some Indian 

 (Oopum) ; soil 

 generally Black, 

 but of very infe- 

 rior quality. 



3. Principally 

 American, some 

 Bourbon and 

 Oopum ; soil Al- 

 luvial but poor, 

 being apparently 

 exhausted by the 

 first very luxuri- 

 ant crop. 



4. First and 

 second seasons, 

 principally Ame- 

 rican ; third sea- 

 son, mostly Oo- 

 pum, which ac- 

 counts for the 

 high average out- 

 turn of the third 

 crop ; soil Black, 

 and generally of 

 the best quality of 

 that sort of land. 



In consequence of bad health on the part of Mr. Morris at the 



