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case, and the extent of that is only sufficient to produce the same 

 volume of seed yearly, control ceases. The subsequent cultivator is 

 usually a small man who may or may not re-sow with seed of unknown 

 origin. 



Apart from the difficulty of re-collecting from a large number of 

 small holders, the value of such seed for taqdwi is very questionable. 

 Practically, therefore, the efforts made on the Domains merely result 

 in the maintenance of a certain fairly constant volume of seed, and 

 there is no cumulative effect leading to increase. 



Here, again, were there an organization such as I have outlined, 

 the Domains seed would pass to the larger private estates, the district 

 officer would be supplied with particulars of these, would inspect the 

 crops, note which are the purest of these, trace them to the ginneries, 

 and place at the disposal of the Ministry for distribution to the smaller 

 cultivators an ever-increasing source of supply of reliable seed. 



VII. 



I have indicated the essential points of an organization for the 

 development of improved cottons and for the introduction of these on 

 a commercial scale under conditions which will maintain a sufficient 

 degree of purity. As described, the outstanding features of that 

 organization is continuity. But while continuity is essential to the 

 successive stages of that development, such continuity is not possible 

 in the organization. At least three sections of the Ministry the 

 Botanical, the Agricultural, and the Commercial are concerned. 

 Success will depend on the maintenance of that continuity of work 

 in spite of the discontinuity of agents, and the danger to the scheme 

 lies at those points where the activities of two agencies meet. The 

 function of organization should be the prevention of any hiatus 

 occurring at these points, and it should leave the maximum of freedom 

 within the sections themselves. 



This necessity for continuity requires to be emphasized. Recently 

 a Cotton Research Board has been instituted, with the underlying idea 

 that the control of cotton research shall be undertaken by it, leaving 

 the practical aspects of the problem to the Ministry. Such a division 

 of functions, I think, is hardly consistent with the development of the 

 continuity I hold to be essential for the successful development of the 

 scheme. It institutes a duality of control which is almost certain to 

 lead to a break in continuity and to the establishment of the hiatus 

 it is most desirable to avoid. The idea underlying the separation 

 of research from practice appears to be based on analogy with English 

 conditions. Here the tendency is in the direction of such separation. 



