TUESDAY, JUNE 23. AFTERNOON SESSION, 

 4.30 P.M. 



British Cotton Cultivation. 



Chairman: THE EARL OF DERBY, G.C.V.O., President of the 

 British Cotton Growing Association. 



THE CHAIRMAN : Gentlemen As you have been informed 

 it is as President of the British Cotton Growing Association 

 that I have had the honour of being asked to take the Chair 

 to-day for Mr. Hutton, the Chairman of that Association, 

 and nothing could have given me greater pleasure than to 

 preside at a meeting at which a past master of the art of 

 cotton growing is to read a paper which I am sure will 

 interest all of you. 



I am afraid that to a certain extent the British Cotton 

 Growing Association is a somewhat selfish concern, as it 

 exists for the purpose of growing cotton in British territory, 

 and principally for British use, But during the various 

 operations that have gone on in the course of the past few 

 years we have gained a vast amount of experience I may 

 add at a considerable cost and that experience, although 

 it was primarily intended for the use of our own nation, is 

 only too willingly placed at the disposal of the whole world, 

 in the hope that every nation may, in the territories belong- 

 ing to it, grow cotton good enough and ample enough 

 for its requirements. I have the greatest possible pleasure 

 in calling upon Mr. Hutton to read his paper a paper 

 which he has written on behalf of the British Cotton 

 Growing Association, an Association which has the approval 

 and the full support of His Majesty's Government. 



