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moved by hand. But, notwithstanding this authority, 

 Mr. Finnie still believed that the experiment which 

 was about to be conducted would test the relative 

 merits of cattle gins and hand gins ; and would thus 

 prove more satisfactory to the merchants and manu- 

 facturers than if conducted with the cattle machinery 

 alone. The President of the Association had indeed 

 said that the hand gins should not be used until their 

 efficiency had been more fully proved ; but how was 

 their efficiency to be proved excepting by their being 

 used ? 



Mr. Finnie' s general objections to the Gin discussed 

 by Dr. Wight. — Whilst this discussion had been car- 

 ried on about the driving machinery, another discus- 

 Paras. 130, s i° n na( l been going on about the gin ge- 

 131 - nerally. Mr. Eiunie's views have already 



been exhibited. He considered that the gin was unfit 

 for Indian Cotton, and that the churka was 

 unfit for American Cotton. Again, he had 

 urged that the expense of the gin was sufficient to 

 deter the Ryot from using it. His arguments upon 

 this point were referred to Dr. Wight, and the latter 

 dealt with them thus. The whole question of gin 

 Dr WMit's versus churka depends upon whether gin- 

 letter, 7th ned Cotton will fetch a higher price in the 

 Pari! Return English market than churkaed Cotton ; 

 (1857), p. 345. and that question is in a fair way of being 

 solved by the experiment in progress, of sending home 

 6000 bales of ginned Cotton and 600 bales of churkaed 

 Cotton to ascertain the relative prices which they would 

 fetch in Manchester. When the relative selling prices 

 have been ascertained, it will be easy to discuss the 

 Par- i 9 question of relative cost prices. Thus Mr. 



Finnie had stated that the Ryot might lose 

 four rupees per candy on ginned Cotton more than on 

 churkaed Cotton ; but then if ginned Cotton would 

 only fetch one farthing per pound more than the other, 

 ,the merchant would be able to pay that four rupees 

 per candy, and yet secure a still larger profit for him- 

 self. On the other hand, should the gin be found to 

 injure the staple of Native Cotton, it would be soon 



