CONTENTS. 



ing- the plant as a biennial, 42 ; Comparative produce of the four 

 seasons, 42 ; General result of the four seasons of the experimental 

 Earms : necessity for a rotation of crops, 44 ; Causes of the suc- 

 cess of Mr. Wroughton's Cotton experiment, 44 ; 1st, Influence of 

 both monsoons, 45 ; 2nd, Early preparation and sowing, 45 ; 

 Drought and Grate the only dangers to be avoided, 46 ; Question 

 of manure, 46 ; Three advantages possessed by India over America 

 in the cultivation of American Cotton, 46 ; Remunerative demand 

 alone required in India, 47 ; Cost of cultivation, 47 ; Further pro- 

 ceedings of the fourth season, 1844-45, 48 ; Mr. Simpson's report 

 on the districts of North Canara, bordering on Dharwar, 49 ; 

 Soondah : unfavourable from the presence of " Kunkur," 49 ; 

 Soopah: soil favourable butclimate unfavourable, 49; Mr. Simpson's 

 opinion on the failure of the Coimbatore Earms to extend the cul- 

 ture of American Cotton, 50 ; Recommended the appointment of 

 a practical person to distribute seed and exhibit the gins, 50 ; Ap- 

 proval of Mr Simpson's suggestions : his transfer to the Bombay 

 Presidency, 51 ; Dr. Wight's answers to the queries of the Marquis 

 of Tweeddale, 51 ; Superiority of the American Cotton to the Indian, 

 51 ; Extension of the improved methods of cultivation among the 

 Ryots, 51 ; Reluctance of the Ryots to adopt the saw gin, 52. 



CHAPTER III. 



FOUR YEARS OF EXPERIMENTAL CULTURE UNDER DR. WIGHT IN 

 COIMBATORE, 1845 TO 1849. 



Position of the Cotton experiment in 1845, 55 ; New arrangements, 

 55 ; Mr. Morris reports unfavourably of Bellary : his death, 56 ; 

 Mr. Finnie reports unfavourably of the Madras district : despatched 

 to Tinnevelly, 56 ; Dr. Wight's New Cotton Earms in Coimbatore, 

 1845 : four points neglected in the previous experiments, 57 ; Re- 

 sults of four successive seasons on a new Earm, 1845-49, 58 ; 

 Suggestions of the Manchester Association respecting sowing in 

 May and on low soils, 59 ; Dr. Wight's reply : 1st, July is the best 

 time for sowing, 60 ; 2nd, Low Alluvial soils had proved a failure, 

 but low lands near the Coast were under trial, 60. 



DR. WIGHT'S NOTES. 



Habits of the American Plant, 61 ; Eour seasons of the American 

 Plant, 62 ; Adaptation of the habits of the American plant to the 

 Indian seasons, 62 ; 1st, Seasons on the eastern side, under the 

 north-east monsoon, 62; Monthly mean temperature and mean falls 

 of rain in the Carnatic, 63 ; Cotton cultivation under the north-east 

 monsoon, sowing in September, 63 ; 2nd, Seasons on the western 

 side, under the south-west monsoon, 64; Cotton cultivation under 



