1849-52.] MR. WROUGHTCXN's COLLECTORATE FARM. 175 



Board of 

 Revenue's 

 letter, 9th 

 August, 1849. 

 Pari. Return 

 (1857), p. 317. 



Minutes of 

 Consulta- 

 tion, 28th 

 Aug., 1849. 

 Pari. Return 

 (1857), p. 319. 

 See De- 

 spatch, 4th 

 July, 1848. 



at that time was indisposed to engage in any J^e^nth 

 further experiments, and passed a resolu- June?i849. 

 tion that if irrigation was to be tried at all ^857)^3^ 

 it must be tried by the E-yots alone. About 

 the same time, the Collector of Tanjore was anxious to 

 make a similar experiment on the annicut 

 of the river Manney ; and he suggested that 

 he should be allowed to grant a tract of 

 land, rent free for three years, to such Byots 

 as should be prepared to cultivate it with 

 ~New Orleans Cotton. The suggestion of 

 the Collector was strongly supported by the 

 Board of Eevenue, but the Madras Govern- 

 ment considered that it was precluded by 

 the orders of the Court of Directors from 

 granting any such remission of the assess- 

 ment. The Collector, however, was permitted 

 to distribute American seed at the expense of Govern- 

 ment, and to afford the use of implements to clean and 

 prepare the Cotton for the English market, and to pre- 

 sent small prizes for its successful cultivation. JSTo 

 results appear to have followed the experiment worthy 

 of record. 



Mr. Wroughton's Collectorate Farm at Coimbatore. 



— About the same time, Mr. Wroughton, the Collector 

 of Coimbatore, left the Presidency for Europe. Mr. 

 Wrough ton's successful cultivation of American Cot- 

 ton has already been noticed. During four 

 seasons prior to 1849, he had carried on the 

 same experimental culture on a Earm of 

 about sixty acres ; and he was anxious that 

 the experiment should be continued after 

 his departure from the country. Sir Henry 

 Pottinger did not consider that Mr. Wrough- 

 ton, any mora than Dr. Wight, had estab- 

 lished any satisfactory result beyond the 

 bare fact that American Cotton of a superior 

 quality would grow in Coimbatore, and that 

 if favoured by seasons it would produce very 

 fine crops. The Madras Government, how- 

 ever, authorized the continuance of the ex- 



Para. 66. 



Memoran- 

 dum of Sir 

 Henry- 

 Montgom- 

 ery, 10th 

 April, 184-9. 

 Pari. Return 

 (1857), p. 306. 



Memoran- 

 dum of Sir 

 Henry Pot- 

 tinger, 14th 

 April, 1849. 

 Pari. Return 

 (1857), p. 308. 



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