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5. The development of a class of cotton superior in quality to the best 

 Sakel. 



The commercial aspect of these recommendations is given in some 

 detail in Mr. McConnel's note dated July 26, 1919. 



I may now pass to the second, or administrative, aspect. The 

 essential consideration here is the provision of a continuity from the 

 termination of the experimental stages, dealt with in the above 

 recommendations, to the last stage, in which purity of the crop is 

 established throughout extended tracts. This series of recommenda- 

 tions arises from (4) above. The demarcation there indicated can only 

 be made by carefully conducted trials in the various tracts. For this 

 purpose an experimental farm is required in each tract. I may deal 

 with the questions here raised in a series of recommendations. 



6. The division of the country into circles determined, as far as 

 possible, by climatic considerations and each with its experimental farm. 



In agreement with what has been said in the body of this report, 

 the work of these farms will be of wider scope than is here indicated, 

 and this report is concerned with only one of their functions. 



7. The establishment of a seed farm in each of the circles so defined. 

 The work of these will be the production of a supply of pure seed 



in sufficient bulk to maintain the purity of the kind when it passes 

 to the less rigid control of general cultivation. 



8. The introduction of a system of licensing of ginneries for taqawi. 

 The system should not be repressive, and its main object should 



be to procure information as to the movement of seed used for sowing 

 purposes rather than to direct the movement into unnatural channelsv 



9. The introduction of a system of licensing persons desirous of 

 introducing new varieties. 



Again, the system should not be repressive, and should have as 

 its main object the collection of information concerning the develop- 

 ment of such varieties. The main danger arising from uncontrolled 

 introductions of this nature has been the absence of any organized 

 system for maintaining the varieties at the time in general cultivation. 

 When such an organization has been established, licenses may be given 

 as a matter of course, for the means of readily eliminating the cultiva- 

 tion of the variety, should it prove undesirable, and of preventing the 

 adulteration of the existing varieties, will be at hand. 



In like manner I may summarize the organization I have outlined 

 for the purpose of developing the above. 



