104 COTTOK IB THE MADEAS PRESIDENCY. [2ND SEASON. 



of employing cattle labour, as we shall presently see. 

 At a later period however he discovered that the 

 coolies had been either forced to work, or had been 

 only half paid. Consequently their inability had been 

 assumed. 



165 Cotton Brokers rather than Zemindars should be 

 induced to adopt the Gin. — Mr. Finnie then expressed 

 Mr. Mmiie's tne °P m i° n that Cotton Brokers rather 

 letter, i6th than Zemindars should be induced to adopt 

 Pari! Return the gin. The two Zemindars who had 

 (i857),p. 846. bought the gins paid little attention to 

 business, and committed the work to some of their 

 numerous dependents ; and the latter were ever ready 

 to peculate, by charging heavy expenses to the working 

 of the new machine, and appropriating the surplus over 

 the actual expenditure to their private uses. Con- 

 sequently, the profits, whether large or small, were ail 

 absorbed. Mr. Finnie however had found that a clas3 

 of men, known as Cotton Brokers, were settled in all 

 the large towns in the best Cotton districts ; and that 

 it was the business of these men to purchase seed 

 Cotton, to separate the seed from the wool, and then 

 to sell both seed and wool separately. These men of 

 course looked after their own affairs, inasmuch as their 

 profits were derived from their own transactions. Ac- 

 cordingly, Mr. Finnie considered that the Brokers 

 ought to be induced to adopt the gin as the best mode 

 of separating the fibre from the seed : and that there- 

 fore it would be necessary to convince them of its 

 advantages by experiments conducted on the most 

 economical scale. 



166 Mr. Einnie's proposals for erecting a Gin-house and 

 Cattle-driving Machinery in Tinnevelly. — Meantime, 

 — that is, in October, 1846, — Mr. Finnie had formed 

 Mr. Einnie's the design of erecting a gin-house and 

 Diary , 2ist driving machinery in Tinnevelly, for the 



Oct., 1846. & „ /. , . . < , J , , 



Pari. Return purpose oi working his gms by cat Lie 

 (1857), p. ss9. i ns tead of by manual labour. In a word, 

 he desired to set up in Tinnevelly an establishment 

 similar to that of Dr. Wight in Coimbatore. He 

 accordingly made the following proposals. 1st, To 



