290 



Minimalpreisen der erzeugten Baumwolle fur die Einge- 

 borenen, sowie auf die technischen Fragen. 



Innerhalb der Jahre 1900 bis 1913 sind vom Kolonial-Wirt- 

 schaftlichen Komitee und von der Regierung zusammen rund 

 4 Millionen Mark zur Forderung des deutsch-kolonialen 

 Baumwollbaues ausgegeben worden und man darf nach 

 Ueberwindung der Anfangsschwierigkeiten in dem sproden 

 tropischen Afrika, wo es an jeglichen Vorbildern und 

 Erfahrungen fehlte, eine gunstige Entwicklung erhoffen. 



[TRANSLATION.] 

 COTTON CULTIVATION IN THE GERMAN COLONIES. 



The development of cotton cultivation for export in the 

 three German-African colonies of Togo, Cameroons, and East 

 Africa has been making steady progress since the year 1910. 



In Togo, as the land is mainly owned by the natives, cotton 

 cultivation has from the outset been carried on in the shape of 

 petty or peasant cultivation, and not on a plantation scale 

 under the management of European proprietors, and the crop 

 has increased from 40 bales of 250 kilograms in the year 1901 

 to 2,200 bales in the year 1912. The main product is a native 

 variety known under the name of " Togo Sea Island " cotton, 

 which corresponds to a good American " Upland Middling." 

 The cotton exportation of Togo is capable of further increase, 

 but scarcely appears likely ever to be very extensive. 



Large portions of the Cameroons appear to possess the 

 primary conditions for prospective development, when once 

 the interior has been opened up by railways. Not only does 

 cotton commonly grow wild in the grass lands there, but it 

 is also cultivated on a large scale by the natives, although 

 only for their own use. A dense and intelligent agricultural 

 population is available here, and the Government has already 

 established two agricultural experimental stations in these 

 districts for the purpose of discovering and raising the most 

 suitable varieties of cotton, instructing the natives in the 

 cultivation of cotton for export, and training white and native 

 travelling instructors in order that the extension of cultivation 

 may take place on a secure basis as soon as improved facilities 

 of transport make it remunerative. 



In Germany, however, the greatest hopes in respect of 

 Colonial cotton cultivation are set upon German East Africa, 

 where in the first instance Egyptian varieties were favoured, 

 but for some years past the Upland varieties, which are more 

 capable of resistance and which have proved satisfactory in 



