. Indian cotton. or damp, yet the farmers, owing totheir inborn gambling instinct, do not take steps to aremedy the visited Kasganj and found plenty of damp cotton in the compoundsof ginning factories, but the buyers acting for the big export housesassured me that the only way by which water gets on the seed cottonis, that it is picked whilst the dew is on the fields and that the cottonis picked every morning, whilst in other tracts of the province it isusual to pick only every fifth day. The ginneries are mostly in the hands of native firms ;Ginneries. they are all roller gins, single
. Indian cotton. or damp, yet the farmers, owing totheir inborn gambling instinct, do not take steps to aremedy the visited Kasganj and found plenty of damp cotton in the compoundsof ginning factories, but the buyers acting for the big export housesassured me that the only way by which water gets on the seed cottonis, that it is picked whilst the dew is on the fields and that the cottonis picked every morning, whilst in other tracts of the province it isusual to pick only every fifth day. The ginneries are mostly in the hands of native firms ;Ginneries. they are all roller gins, single and double action. As the cotton is picked in a dirty condition it is customaryin practically all the provinces to pass the cotton through an openerbefore ginning it. In this district proper export bales are pressed atonce, , without first making the loose bales as is the custom inSind and the Punjab. Ginning factories work, generally, threedays, and the cotton ginned during that time is pressed on the fourth. Primitive method of conveying cotton bales from store to ginning factory. day. To a fairly large extent the ginners buy the cotton from thebania, but those who gin on commission charge 7as. per , and about Rs. 3 per bale for pressing. The wages ofthe men at the press are 6as., those of the women at the gins 4as. The work in the ginning factories at Aligarh is carried out verycarefully, all the European export firms employing a number of handsfor the purpose of picking out the stained cotton and drying the seed-cotton in the sun. It is almost incomprehensible how few labour-saving appliances there are in these factories, although some aremanaged by Europeans. The cotton stores are often 200 and 300yards away from the ginning factory, and the bales are carried on thebacks of natives from the store to the front of the factory, where theyare wound up by hand. If one considers, however, that the wages INDIAN COTTON. 119 of the labourers carrying the bales
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