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glish spinners, 216 ; their general 

 opinions upon the experimental 

 culture, 217; their views con- 

 cerning the experimental farms, 

 222 — 224 ; send some Sea Island 

 Cotton seed, 235 ; their measures 

 concerning Dr. "Wight and Mr. 

 Finnie, 237, 239, 240 ; sanction 

 the relief of the chayroot renter 

 from interfering with Mr. Lees' 

 cultivation, 259 ; their final des- 

 patch on Cotton, 287 ; receive 

 certain queries regarding Cotton 

 by Dr. Mallet, 304. 



Dowlashwarum, 294. 



Drill husbandry, 49, 151. 



Driving Machinery, expenses of, 156 ; 

 Mr. Finnie' s proposal for the 

 erection, 166 ; sanction for its 

 purchase, 167; change in Mr. 

 Finnie's views, 168; erected at 

 Sevacausey, 207 ; Mr. Finnie's 

 last opinion, 238. 



Drought, its effects upon Cotton 

 shrub, 42, 70, 360. 



Earle, Mr., reports upon samples of 

 Cotton sent to Liverpool, 43, 

 45. 



Egypt, treatment of the Sea Island 

 Cotton as a biennial, 64 ; irriga- 

 tion employed, 110. 



Egyptian Cotton, 20, 21 ; success- 

 fully cultivated on the Coromandel 

 coast, 279 ; suitability of Ganjam 

 to its growth, successful cultiva- 

 tion of, 291 ; Mr. Shubrick's, 298 ; 

 Dr. Mudge's, 299 



Ellice, Mr. E., 287. 



Ellore, 294. 



Elphinstone, Lord, experiments 

 during his governorship, 28 ; re- 

 solves upon the removal of the 

 American Planters to Salem and 

 Coimbatore, 38 ; his suggestions 

 adopted by Mr. Fischer, ib. ; re- 

 quests Dr. Wight to draw up 

 notes upon American system of 

 agriculture, 48 ; succeeded by the 

 Marquis of Tweeddale, 67. 



Elton, Mr., 237; recommends the 



cultivation of Cotton by irrigation, 



256. 



Errode, Cotton farm established, 39. 



Experimental farms, four, estab- 

 lished, 39; arrangements regard- 

 ing two, 46 ; distribution of land 

 amongst them, 47 ; of soil, 48 ; 

 their state in 1843-44, 61 ; ge- 

 neral result of the four seasons, 

 66 ; their position in 1845, 86 ; 

 new ones established in Coimba- 

 tore, 90 ; their results, 91 ; con- 

 templated establishment of a num- 

 ber of small ones, 125 ; stage of 

 culture in Tinnevelly, 183 ; gene- 

 ral opinions of the Madras Govern- 

 ment and Court of Directors, 217 ; 

 suggestions to relinquish those in 

 Coimbatore by the Marquis of 

 Tweeddale, 218 ; by the Directors, 

 223 ; Sir H. Pottinger suggests 

 that the continuance of them 

 would be injurious, 226 ; with- 

 drawal of the Government Agency, 

 283 ; their state after Dr. Wight's 

 departure, 288. 



Finnie, Mr., 28 ; succeeds Mr. Simp- 

 son in the Madras Presidency, 87 ; 

 reports unfavourably upon the 

 Madras district, 89 ; despatched 

 to Tinnevelly, ib. ; his labours 

 compared with those of Dr. 

 "Wight, 126; his first impression 

 of Tinnevelly, 127 ; requests per- 

 mission to act as Agent, 128 ; re- 

 commends the thresher before the 

 use of the churka, 131 ; obtains 

 saw gins from Dr. Wight, ib. ; 

 three points in his career, 132 ; 

 his tour to Courtallum, 133; 

 allays the fears and suspicions of 

 the Eyots, 135 ; explains the im- 

 proved method of culture to the 

 Eyots, 136 ; his tour to Coimba- 

 tore, 137 ; is permitted to act as 

 Cotton Agent, 139 ; request the 

 Madras Government to remove the 

 restriction to ginned Cotton, 140 ; 

 his first year's proceedings with 

 the churka, &c, 141; receives 



