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2 operations appéar only limited by the quantity of fuel that can be ob-
3 tained. The Sugar manufactured by them is full of saccharine matter,
4 and has driven all other Sugars ‘pretending to purity from the
5 bazaars of the British Cantonments. The natives object to using it from
6 the circumstance of animal charcoal being-employed in the process of
7 purifying ‘it.
8 ' An experiment is now in progress in the South-Eastern Talooks of the
9 Nuggur Division, which has for its object the introduction on a large
10 scale of the cultivation of the finer speciés of cotton. Its success hither-
11 to has not been such'as to lead the Commissioner to be very sanguine of
12 its ultimate resuft, but full time has not yet’ been given for’ fair trial.
13 The little that has yet been produced has found a ready sale at a high price.
14 Every traveller from the Carnatic is struck with the appearance of the
15 Mysore Sheep... Its coat is of wool, not of coarse hair ; and the article
16 manufactured from it is equally. superior. This showed that the pas-
17 tures and climate of Mysore were well suited to the growth of wool ;
18 and, with a view to improve it, Merino Rams have fer some time -past
19 been annually procured ‘from Australia. This experiment also may be
20 said to be in its infancy ; but the $ bred Rams are already hardly to be,
21 distinguished from the imported ones; and they have multiplied .so
22 much that drafts have been sent to several of the Madras Collectorates,
23 and to the Punjab. A quantity of wool that was sent home to test the
24 market value, attracted the marked attention of the mercantile com;
25 munity. The principal difficulty appears to’be the cleansing the fleece
26 from the penetrating spear-grasses with which the pastures of Southern
27 India abound.
28 ‘ The cultivation of Coffee, which in the Rajah’s time was of so little
29 moment that he bestowed the monopoly of it throughout his Territories
30 ona single Madras merchant, has now increased in &
31 most wonderful manner.
32 The little then grown used to be sent down to Mangalore, shifted into
33 Arabian bags, and forwarded to England as the genuine produce of
34 Mocha. It has now obtained a place of its own in the London Price
35 Currents, and a hundred thousand Maunds from the Nuggur Division
36 found its way last. year to’ the Seaports of Canara. The slopes of ‘the
37 Bababooden Hills seem peculiarly adapted to its growth ; and, as Euro-
38 pean capital and skill are being brought to bear on its production, it
39 promises to become a most important item in the revenues of the State
40 H
41 Appendix F.