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found in the cotton-growing tracts ; in other words, trial requires to 

 be made with a view to bringing into prominence any particular 

 adaptability of the race to the type tracts to which reference has been 

 made. Such work must, from its very nature, be decentralized. 



As a result of such comparative trials under different environ- 

 mental conditions the number of races which survive elimination will 

 be comparatively small. For these, further trials on a field scale, 

 and an organization for multiplying up a seed supply under conditions 

 which will ensure purity, are required. The degree of supervision 

 here required is such that direct and complete control by the Ministry 

 is essential. 



From the seed supply so produced distribution will be made to 

 extra Ministerial agencies, and here, for the first time, direct contact 

 with the public will be reached. As I have stated above, the amount 

 of seed that can be procured under such rigid control will be, under any 

 organization practicable, but an iota of that required to sow even one 

 type tract. Control, and the organization which accompanies it, 

 cannot, therefore, cease here. That seed must be issued to a circle 

 of selected and more reliable cultivators, with whom arrangements 

 for the re-purchase of the crop, for the purpose of increasing the seed 

 supply, are possible. These cultivators will, in the following year, 

 be supplied with a fresh stock from the directly controlled Government 

 stock, while the seed recovered from them is issued to a further set 

 of cultivators. 



I may set out the above scheme in tabular form : 



(1) Research: The isolation of races in a condition of purity. 



(2) Experimental Trial: Small cultures grown comparatively 



under differing environmental conditions. 



(3) Field Trials : In those tracts only which the trials under (2) 



have proved suitable. 



(4) Seed Production : The bulk development of a pure seed 



supply. 



(5) Seed Distribution : The organization of a seed supply 



sufficient to meet the full needs of the tract. 



We are now in a position to consider the equipment that will 

 be needed to allow the successful development of this scheme for passing 

 from the experimental to the practical issue. At the foundation of 

 the scheme is the Botanical Section, which will require a research 

 farm. On this farm will be conducted, by the botanical staff, all that 

 work which aims ultimately at the production of pure races. With 

 a three-year rotation, and an area of twenty- five to thirty acres under 

 cotton at one time, some seventy to ninety acres will be needed for 

 this farm. 



