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diseases and difficulties, rendered possible by such an 

 organization as the Imperial Department of Agriculture, 

 and without the readily available help as regards all that 

 concerned markets and their requirements, focussed and 

 rapidly applied by the British Cotton Growing Associa- 

 tion, both of which organizations were closely in touch 

 with all that was going on, efforts would have failed in 

 the individual islands from the circumstance of their isola- 

 tion, and no cotton industry would have come into 

 existence : the pioneers would have been beaten in detail, 

 but were saved by being united." 



