118 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [3RD SEASON. 



R. A. P. £ s. d. 



Cost for Seed Cotton of six Podhees at Es. 



7-10 (15*. 3c?.) per Podhee . . . . 45 12 = 4 11 6 



Cost of labour for ginning, or separating the 



Seed from the Cotton 7 9 6 =0 15 2J 



Cost of cloth, sowing, packing, twine, and oil 

 for gins 2 7 6 = 4 llj 



Total cost of 1700 lbs. of Seed Cotton .. 55 13 = 5 11 7| 



Deduct amount realized for Seed, Es. 1-6 



(25. 9d.) 7 15 = 15 10A 



Net cost of 370 J lbs. of Clean Cotton, exclusive 



of Establishment and Superintendence ..47 140 = 4 15 9 



Eate per candy of 500 lbs. of Cotton after de- 

 ducting amount realized for Seed .. 64 90 = 6 9 1| 



Net cost per lb. of Clean Cotton 3J 



Vooo^.y 



182 Necessity for improving the construction of the 

 Gin. — Upon the relative working of each of the gins, 

 Mr. Einnie's Mr. Finnie reported as follows. It will be 

 Sept r 'i84 r 7 d remembered that he had two 25 saw gins, 

 Pari.' Return and one of 20 saws. Each of the two 25 

 (1857), p. 279. gaw required thirteen men a day to 

 work it; namely, two sets of six men to turn the 

 wheel, and relieve each other alternately ; and one 

 man to attend to the gin, such as feeding it with seed 

 Cotton, and removing the staple freed after separation. 

 One gin however would clean 100 lbs. of seed Cotton 

 in one hour ; whilst the other would not clean the same 

 quantity under two hours. Then again the 20 saw 

 gin did almost as much work as the best 25 saw gin, 

 though it only required nine men to work it ; namely, 

 one man for the gin, and eight men at the wheel ; the 

 latter relieving each other alternately in sets of four. 

 This last gin had been made by Mr. Petrie, and was 

 pronounced by Mr. Finnie to be the best he had seen 

 in India. These facts served to show that much de- 

 pended on the construction of the machine, and that 

 further improvements might yet bring the gin into 

 constant and profitable use in India. 



