CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V, 



DISPUTES BETWEEN DR. WIGHT AND MR. PINNIE, DISCUSSIONS OF 

 THE MADRAS GOVERNMENT AND COURT OP DIRECTORS, AND 

 FINAL CLOSE OF THE EXPERIMENTAL CULTURE, 1847 TO 1853. 



Marquis of Tweeddale succeeded by Sir Henry Pottiuger : breach 

 between Dr. Wight and Mr. Pinnie, 139 ; Mr. Pinnie convinced i 

 of the folly of cultivating American Cotton in India : Dr. Wight 

 recommends his removal, 141 ; Points of the dispute : summary 

 of the correspondence, 142 ; Mr. Pinnie to Dr. Wight, 7th No- 

 vember, 1848 : " I have had great difficulties in ginning, but have 

 induced many Natives to plant American Cotton/ 5 143 ; Dr. 

 Wight to Mr. Pinnie, 15th November : " Your purchase of Chur-, 

 kaed Cotton is illegal, your culture of American Cotton unsatis- 

 factory, and your ginning too expensive," 144 ; Mr. Pinnie to Dr. 

 Wight, 18th December : " My plans have all been approved by the 

 authorities," 145 ; Dr. Wight's explanations, 30th January, 1849, 

 147 ; General opinions of the Madras Government and Court of 

 Directors upon the Experimental Culture, 149 ; Minute of the : 

 Marquis of Tweeddale in 1847 : 1st, To relinquish the Experi-; 

 mental Parm in Coimbatore, 149 ; 2nd, To establish small model* 

 fields, under a practical Agency, amongst the native cultivators, 

 151 ; 3rd, To set up small gin establishments, and to keep up, 

 good roads to the ports, 151 ; Limits to Government agency : the 

 Manufacturer should purchase direct from the Ryot, 152. 



VIEWS OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS. 



Despatch of the Court of Directors, 1848, 153 ; 1st, The Cotton ; 

 farm at Coimbatore may be relinquished: it has been proved that 

 the right Cotton can be grown, and the price alone remains to be 

 ascertained, 154 ; 2nd, " Agency confined to practical planters" 

 may be tried on a small scale, 154. 



VIEWS OF SIR HENRY POTTINGER. 



Minute of Sir Henry Pottinger, May, 1849, 155 ; The experimental 

 Parms have been fully tried, and their continuance would be in- 

 jurious, 156 ; American Cotton in any part of the Madras Presi-i 

 dency liable to failure, 156 ; Causes of the failure of American? 

 Cotton: climate and soil, 157; Dr. Wight ascribes the failure in 

 Coimbatore to the want of humidity, but humidity does not mean 

 rain, 157 ; The Ryots should now be left to themselves, with such aid 

 as the Revenue Establishments may give, 158 ; Mr. Pinnie to remain! 

 in Tinnevelly till October, to instruct the East Indian lads in the 

 use of the gins, etc-, 158; Dr. Wight should break up his estab- 

 lishment in Coimbatore immediately, 159 ; Gin-houses at Coimba- 



