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Mr. Pelly's 

 letter, 6th 

 April, 1850. 

 Collector of 

 Cuddapah's 

 letter, 13th 

 April, 1850. 

 Pari. Return 

 (1857), p. 387. 



the Revenue 

 Board, 29th 

 April, 1850. 

 Pari. Return 

 (1857), p. 386. 



Order of Go- 

 vernment, 

 3rd June, 

 1850. Pari. 

 Return 

 (1857), p. 388. 



could be worked all day by two men alter- 

 nately ; that it cleaned about 1^ maunds 

 (42 lbs.) of seed Cotton per hour, thus doing 

 about three times the work of the Man- 

 chester Cottage gin ; and that it cost only 

 40 rupees. At the same time the Collector 

 of Cuddapah expressed a strong opinion 

 upon the importance of introducing a suitable gin. 

 Letter from Accordingly, the Board of Revenue solicited 

 sanction from the Madras Grovernment for 

 the purchase of fifty Dharwar gins ; twenty- 

 five for experimental use in Bellary, and 

 twenty-five for Cuddapah ; at a cost of £4 

 each, or £200 for fifty. By this time, how- 

 ever, further supplies of the Manchester 

 Cottage gin had been received from England, 

 making a total of seventy-two gins. Under 

 these circumstances the Madras Grovernment was un- 

 prepared to expend £200 in Dharwar gins ; and di- 

 rected that Dr. Wight should furnish the Collectors of 

 Bellary and Cuddapah with as many Manchester Cot- 

 tage gins as could be spared ; but in addition author- 

 ized each Collector to purchase for trial in bis District 

 five of the Dharwar gins. 



Br. Wig&t compares the working of the Dharwar 

 Dr. wight's Gin, the Manchester Cottage Gin, and the- 



Juiy r i850. lar ^ e Hand Gin.— The report of Mr. Pelly, 

 Pari.' Return that the Dharwar gin cleaned 42 lbs. of 

 (i857),p.389. gee(i Cotton per hour, and that it could be 

 worked the whole day long, naturally led to an applica- 

 tion from Dr. Wight, that he also might be supplied 

 with a model of this machine, for trial in his establishment 

 at Coimbatore. The letter is somewhat confused, inas- 

 much as information as to the relative cost of labour 

 on the churka and the various sorts of gins, is inter- 

 mixed with arguments to prove that the reported suc- 

 cess of the Dharwar gin was incredible. The 

 latter question, considered apart, may be 

 very briefly treated. The Manchester Cot- 

 tage gins were each worked by only one 

 man or one woman at a time. If worked 

 by men, the average out-turn of each was 



Mather's 

 Machine, 

 Bengal P. R,., 

 p. 415. See 

 also p. 463, 

 for American 

 60-saw gins 

 at Coimba- 

 tore. 



