196 COTTON IN" THE MADKAS PRESIDENCY. [CHAP. YI. 



Cotton cultivation in the several districts of the Ma* 

 dras Presidency. 



289 Survey of the present Cotton cultivation in the 

 Madras Presidency. — In carrying out the review thus 

 indicated, it will be advisable to proceed with each 

 district separately, according to the geographical dis- 

 tribution of the several Collectorates already set forth 

 at para. 9, viz. : — 1st, Northern Circars ; 2nd, Eastern 

 Plain ; 3rd, Central Table Land ; and 4th, Western 

 Strip. The materials for this survey have been selected 

 from a mass of official reports and other documents, 

 which it is not thought expedient to print in extenso. 



290 1st, Northern Circars: four Districts. — The North- 

 ern Circars consist of a long narrow arm of territory 

 stretching from the Pagoda of Juggernaut on the 

 frontiers of the Bengal Presidency, southward along 

 the Bay of Bengal to the river Kristna. It comprises 

 four Districts : viz. — {!.) Ganjam, (2.) Vizagapatam, 

 (3.) Godavari, (4.) Kristna. 



291 (1.) Ganjam : produce inconsiderable but easily in- 

 creased by money advances. — In this district the 

 Cotton cultivation of late years seems to vary from 



A endixl ^ 0Ur ^ nousan( ^ *° s ^ x thousand acres. As 

 ppen . ^ e q Uan ^2ty of Cotton grown is so insigni- 

 ficant, the Collector merely makes a few general ob- 

 servations. He says that there is one material fact 

 which has not been made sufficiently clear to the mer- 

 cantile community at home ; namely, that the Native 

 agriculturalist will undertake nothing new on the mere 

 assurance that it is in demand in a distant market. 

 Mr Eorbes's Cases where the security of profit would 

 letter, 20th appear most perfect to the European mind, 

 Apni, i86i. WO uld have no effect upon the Native. 

 JBut on the other hand, there is no tropical produce 

 which the European with capital might not com- 

 mand, by bringing his capital into immediate contact 

 with the producer. If suitable money advances were 

 made on the spot, Egyptian Cotton and other fine 

 varieties could be grown in Ganjam within an easy 

 distance of the coast. 



