Travel Perspectives

35,000 rnig spdls 800 looms / [Md?] or [Lcs?]

[???] dept 64 12 409 5.33 to 12 Cording Dept 419 113 3.70 to 1 Spng Dept 644 149 4.32 to 1 Doubling 30 9 3.33 Winding 86. 50 1.72 Color winding 219. 88 1.6[3?] Weaving 971 350 2.77

etc etc 2662/982 2.67

Mr. Chadwick/ Bknghm Mill Madras 4600 Employees

Good baling

"I hv seen it lose form in Engld[?], rsn of bad baling"

1 cntns band 16 times around

3/4 inch staple

411

all overseers Erpns

Migration back to villages mjority [brn?] a bit of land

Cost of production about the same in England as here

All reddish tinge cotton

No girls or women [???] linen cloth all male labor

9 to 14 half times go to school

work mng, atnd schl p.m.

others 6 to 8 pm

All cot gds to India bear tariff tax India cot gds [???] thx to equliz comptn

Palmyra & cocoanut roofs fw cvd in houses mud frame mst [crossed out] [brown?] [???] [end crossed out]

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[white nut?] (sets hrd like cement) clean floors with cowdung

1200 H.P. Engine [???] powerful

[crossed out] 15 to [end crossed out] 12 to 15 rupees avg wage

work 11 to 11½ hrs 11½ lgst no artifical light

Servants 10 to 12 rupees a month

[???] by [???] 498 lbs (Bombay 784).

Ind. School garden

[crossed out text] [???] work

Wages

Cotton Ginning yield

Ownership: [B?] of [???]

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Famines

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[circled text] millet [end circled text]

[circled text] Foods [end circled text] [bracketed text] Rice 10,000,000 acres sorghum 4,500,000 Pearl millet 4,000,000 fodder [end bracketed text] [right margin circled text] [pcpl?] irgtn [end right margin circled text]

[right margin circled text] eatg seed main food millet [end right margin circled text]

Everyone pfrs rice Rc 2¢ a lib

2,000,000 acres ctn acreage slightly incsg Trying to introduce garieties grown only on blk sls want some for red soils

Trying to incs stbl & yield of indigenous ctn

supplying seed on larger scale Govt work lg. time to come

staple 3/4 to 5/8 inch .70 to .80 inch not stbl for spng over 20s warp; 30s to 40s weft

New variety [crossed out] of [end crossed out] bf to reach 32s warp

Yield 50 to 100 lbs lint per acres

no [???] fertilizers

over large [???] min pdtcns

rising prcs, incsg pdpn, more atn to ld

Forests reserved; [grt?] imports last 50 years

[wrk?] cultv rice etc 5 to 10 [acres?] (or less

419

"Dry cultvn 30 to 50 acres (cotton sorghum, etc)

A man has wf & fam lv on 2 acres

1/4 irrigated land

Dry season end of Dec to June 1st (showers Apl & May)

Good ^([art?]) rice ld $500 to 1500 Rupes "[ditto] dry ld 50 ^(no risk) to 400 rupees

Dry ld [frm?] owners; wt lds ([???] cdtn) lds [???]

Wages of labor: men 3 to 4 annas women 2 to 3 "[ditto] chdn 1½ to 2½ (boarding themselves) As a rule, agl laborers [???] pd in grain.