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Among the economic problems entitled to rank as Imperial there is none more worthy of the attention of statesmen than that of the onltivation of cotton within the British Empire. Within recent years the dependence of our. greatest textile industry on the United States for the supply of its raw meterial has awakened well-founded misgivings among the more far-sighted marobante and manufacturers in Lancashire.
Self-help is the pivot of our industrial system, and Lancashire has shown ita willingness to help itself by the forination of the British Cotton Growing Association a co- operative organisation which has already done much to encourage the cultivation of cotten in different parts of the Empire,
To all who are directly interested in the sotton industry, the abstracts of the detailed reports made to Government which form the bulk of the now White Back will prove of preotical value; but Professor Donatar's intro. duction makes no appeal to a much larger class, time it deals, on large lines, with a problem which intimately affects one of the great industries on which our national prosperity 50 argely depends.
**The extent," he says, "to which ositon growing will be resorted to by the matives obviously depends on several factors, of which the moet important are the prios. which can be offered and the compeition of other compations and of other aprian- tural crops. The collection of palm kernal and the preparation of palm oil in West Africa is to say and remunerativa an occupation that it is at present useless to attempt to intro- dues cotton cultivation in the palm-oil regiona of that sountry, Moreover, it must not he overlooked that cotton cultivation is one of the higher forms of tropical agriculture, and Ita successful pursuit sails for qualities which are not always to be found in the West African native, who frequently, prefers the simple sad, at leart, equally profitable occupation of growing the food stuffe of the country, Fortunately, the growth of curtain foodstuffs may be carried. on in rotation with cotton, and the extended adoption of this practice is to botaninded. But as the problem is an Imperial, and not In fact, cotton cultivation will have to be made merely a local one, the Government has recogs part of general agricultural practice if it is to nised that it has a duty and a responsibility in become a permanent industry. The steps which the matter. The mesures initiated by Mr. are now being taken by Government to tasks Chamberlain, during his memorable tenure of the natives of West Africa better agricultural office as Secretary of State for the Colonies. procedure must therefore exercise an important have been continued and doreloped under his infance on the extension and improvement #accessors, and much valuable work has been cotton cultivation. What is urgently needed in addition are the systematic experiments in done by the Government through the instru- mentality of the Imperial Institute and mainly improving native cotton, which can only he through the Scien' ifio and Technical Section. Encuessfully conducted on scientific nos and
Four years age a report prepared by Profomor by trained specialists." Wyndham Daustas, the director of the Institute, on "Cetton Cultivation in the British Empire and in Egypt" was presented to Parliament, and since that time the quarterly Bulletin of the Institute has testified to the onstant and vara mittig attention wich has been given to the subject by the technical staff, and to the increasing extent to which the Colonial Ad. ministrations have availed themselves of the services of the Institate. Now that the anomaly by which the Imporial Institute--an organica- tion mainly concerned with the development of the resources of the Colonies-was placed under the departmental control of the Board of Tride, has been removed, and the organisation has been brought into direct relation with the Colonial Offise, there can be no doubt that its sphere of usefulness will be widely extended and that the Empire will derive direct and immediate benefits from the change. The further series of Reports on the Quality of Cotton Grown in British Possessious," prepared by Professor Dunstan, whlok have just bean presented to Parliament, furnish conclusive prost of the valas of the work which the Institute is doing. Samples of cotton have been ex- amined from no less than twenty-nine different sections of the Empire-in Europe, Asia, Africo, Amerios, and Australasiathe, total number of samples which have been examined and reported on being no fewer than four hundred and forty ціле, of which, it is stated, are now to ba seen in the Public Galleries and Sample Booms of the Imperial Institute, Nor must, it be supposed that the value of the work done cabe estimated by the value of the separate reports furnished to the individual Colonies. The Imperial Insitute' is, in fact, a scientific and technical olearing-house, where the experiencs gained in ore Colony is passed on to all the olber Colonis, go that not only oav methods which have proved successful in ons Colony be tried-in other Colonies where similar conditions. prevall, but, what is of at least equal import- ance, the failures sad mistakes made may set as
warning to others.
Already Professor. Danstan has found it possible, from a study of the work socomplished by the Instituts and by the British Cotton Growing Association, to lay down certain general propositions which may now be regard ed as provisionally established, In the first place, whilst advocating systematio trisle of foreign cottens, be thioke it is clear that "the hæst obanees of success lie in most cases in the improvement of native cottons," The different varieties of plants from which the world's supply of cotton is derived are all cultivated, and while experience has shown that a first orop, good in quality and quantity, may often be obtained from imported seed, there is a decided fordunoy for the plants grown under different conditions of soil and climate to degenerate or revert towards their original type, especially under now conditions and primitive cultivation. I Egypt, Professor Dunalan points out, the ausosas" of "colton cultivation is principally due to "systomatio cultivation and hybri disation of plants native to the country"; while the successful revival of cotton growing in the West In tier equally demonstrates the truth of his general proposition. That successful revival, according to Professor Dunstan, "is largely dus to the fact that the cotten to which attention has been given is the Sea Island variety, which, although taking its name from islands on the coast of the Southern States of America, whore it has been successfully grown in recent yəsre, is stated to have been onltivated long previously, it did not noually originate, in the West Indies, and is, therefore, known to be suitable to the con- ditions of West Indian soil and stimate." On the other hand, portain varieties of American cotton or an American native hybrid seem likely to do -well iri Uganda, Nyasaland, and the Treisvaal, Among the negative results obtained is the demonstration that certain varieties of Amo- rican upland cottons are apparently not suitable for some of our African Possessions, which
may, nevertheless, yet be destined to become great sources of capply for the Lancashire mille. Whether other varieties are suitable, or can be utilised by hybridisation with native plants in a less advanced stage of cultivation, is a matter which can only be determined by careful experi- ments, and accordingly Professor Dunstan in- sists that if satisfactory progress is to be made it is necessary that "plant-breeding experiments should be conducted on some definite pier." He
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On one other point of primary importance Professor Daustan has arrived at a definite conclusion of the greatest interest." Since," he says, "African cotton-growing must for the most part, be carried on av s native industry, it cannot be too staaugly urged that every once- ragement and facility abould be given to the improvement of antive cultivation, both by direct instruction and odvice to the farmers, and also by demonstrations at selected centres of the results of syalamatio experimental work,"
It is to West Africa-and in West Africa, more especially to Northern Nigeria that we mast apparently look for the production of a type of cotten suited to the peeds of the Lanca shire manufacturer, and in sufficient quantities to make him, if not independent of, af lasat less dep ndent on, American supplies, And in connection with West Africa Professor Dan- stau offers some observations which are deserving of the most careful consideration,
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