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point of view I cordially appreciate what he has said. I believe 

 that the growing of more and better cotton in India will on 

 the whole conduce to the general prosperity and to the greater 

 prosperity of the cotton manufacturers of the world. 



Mr. J. S. J. McCALL (Director of Agriculture, Nyasaland) : 

 Mr. President I have listened with much interest to Mr, 

 Schmidt's paper. This is by no means the first communication 

 Mr. Schmidt has made to those engaged in the extension of 

 the cotton industry throughout the Empire, and it is very 

 pleasing to hear a man who is so intimately connected with 

 the commercial side of the question giving some praise to the 

 endeavours of the agricultural experts. 



M. BRENIER (French Indo-China): Mr. President I did not 

 intend to take part in the discussion on the interesting paper 

 which has just been read, but I venture to put before the 

 Congress a fact which may perhaps interest it. It is that in 

 French Indo-China, in Cambodia, we are going to undertake 

 the scientific culture of Cambodia cotton, which was singled 

 out in Mr. Schmidt's paper as being an interesting variety of 

 cotton. At present there is an annual export from Indo-China 

 of about 5,000 tons of this cotton, which is all taken by Japan. 

 I was very much struck by what Mr. Schmidt told us about 

 the general yield of Cambodia cotton in India. I am not quite 

 sure whether we can put forward the same figures as Mr. 

 Schmidt quoted 500 Ib. per acre, if I am not mistaken but 

 we intend to study the cotton in a scientific way, and have 

 just started a special cotton farm for this purpose. I thought 

 this fact might perhaps interest the Congress. 



Sir JAMES WILSON : Mr. President and Gentlemen I venture 

 to say a few words on this question, because I was Secretary 

 to the Government of India in the Agricultural Department 

 when that letter to which Lord Derby referred came to Lord 

 Curzon, and I had a good deal to do in India with the work 

 of the improvement and encouragement of cotton cultivation 

 which resulted from that letter. I am very pleased to hear 

 that the arrangements then made about ten years ago, I 

 think, or more have on the whole turned out very successful. 

 I was astounded to hear of the very large increase in the out- 

 turn of cotton in India which is expected this year. I think, 

 if I remember rightly, the figures have gone up from about 

 3,000,000 bales four or five years ago to an expected outturn 

 of 6,000,000 bales this year. I have not myself been following 

 the recent reports on the outturn of cotton in India, but "l 

 should imagine that this great increase in the production which 

 is expected this year must be due not so much to what may 

 be called a normal increase in the growth of cotton, but to an 

 exceptionally favourable season. I am afraid it would be a 



