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attention to the district, and perhaps induce others 

 to take up cotton-growing or tobacco-planting, 

 another crop which may not unhkely prove suit- 

 able to the country. The object of the experi- 

 ment being to prove that cotton can be grown 

 there, the success of the enterprise would be a 

 matter of considerable concern to the Government 

 and country as well as the concessioners. As far 

 as possible obstacles should be removed from their 

 path, lest a too punctilious insistence upon the 

 observance of regulations might eventuate in the 

 experiment proving that cotton cannot be grown 

 there, which would be a disaster. 



