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to take charge of them. For almost any one that was appointed, 

 would have much to learn, before he would be in a position to teach. 

 The expense of such a process, carried on in several districts at the 

 same time, would be a bar to its adoption, besides that the several 

 failures which would at first occur, would, for some time at least, 

 operate as a discouragement against the adoption of some, even of 

 their successful experiments. 



14. The Board of Revenue suggest the propriety of ascertain- 

 ing whether the Government Cotton Farms have really exercised any 

 permanent influence, and whether the cotton of the Districts in 

 which they were established is sensibly superior to the produce of 

 districts not similarly favored. On this it may be observed, that 

 the inferences drawn from attempts to grow an exotic species of 

 cotton in all the different parts of India, would hardly apply to 

 farms intended to grow only such things as are suitable to each 

 particular district. But even with this exotic species of cotton, it 

 would be found that the Government farms have produced perma- 

 nent effects only where the climate was suitable to the American 

 species of cotton. For instance, no effect will be observed from the 

 farms which were established in the Bengal Presidency, as the cli- 

 mate was not suitable to the plant ; still less so when it was cul- 

 tivated according to American methods, and all the farms were given 

 up before suitable modifications of culture could be determined on. 

 In Broach great success has attended the cleaning of cotton by 

 Amerian machinery, while in Dharwar and neighbouring districts 

 60,000 acres are under cultivation with American cotton, which 

 brings the highest prices of any Indian grown cotton in the Eng- 

 lish market. In Coimbatore good cotton was produced and at a 

 remunerative rate, according to Dr. Wight's statements. If the 

 uncertainties of season have not thrown discouragements in the 

 way of cultivation, some permanent effects ought to have been pro- 

 duced, though the Natives there, seem never to have taken to the 

 culture of American cotton as in Dharwar, and though the Govern- 

 ment engaged equally in both districts to purchase all that the ryots 

 would grow. 



15. As considerable difficulties would be experienced in the 



