12 BRAZILIAN COTTON 



The Committee trusts that the Brazilian Federal Government 

 and the Governments of the various States will take the necessary 

 steps for improving and extending cotton cultivation, esp)ecially by 

 establishing seed farms and by the distribution of jmre seed of one 

 variety only in each district, to assure uniformity of fibre. 



The Committee expresses the opinion that the establishment of 

 roller-gins in the North-Eastern States of Brazil ivoidd materially 

 contribute toivards preventing deterioration of the fibre, that it would 

 improve the quality of the cottons delivered to the spinners and cause 

 a commensurate increase in their jjrices. 



The Committee recommends the establishment of such ginning 

 factories as an industrial undertaking to the mutual advantage of 

 grower, ginner and spinner. 



The Committee is of the opinion that Brazilian cottons are not 

 sufficiently known, and recommends to the members of the Federation 

 to make trials with Brazilian cotton. 



The Committee of the International Federation of Master 

 Cotton S2}inners' and Manufacturers' Associatio7is desires to express 

 to the Brazilian Federal Government, to the Governments of the 

 States of Sao Paulo, Minas Geraes, Bahia, Alagoas, Sergipe, Para- 

 hyba, and Rio Grande do Norte, and to the Municipalities visited by 

 the International Cotton Mission, its cordial ajypreciation and thanks 

 for the unstinted generosity shown and the many facilities granted to 

 the members of that Mission. 



The Committee also records its thanks to all those uho have sc 

 generously assisted the Mission in its work. 



These Resolutions, along with the whole Report, will be dis- 

 cussed at the forthcoming Eleventh International Cotton Congress 

 which the International Cotton Federation will hold on 14th to 16th 

 June, 1922, at Stockholm. 



With a view to bringing the Brazilian cotton question more to 

 the attention of those interested in cotton I proposed to the Brazilian 

 Government, during my stay in Brazil, the convening of a Cotton 

 Conference at the time of the Independence Centenary Festivities, 

 which Brazil is celebrating in the autumn of 1922. This suggestion 

 has been acted upon and a Cotton Conference, which will be given an 

 international character, is being organised by the " Sociedade 

 Nacional de Ageicultura," under the auspices of the Brazihan 

 Government, full particulars of which will be found at the commence- 

 ment of the advertisements at the end of this book. 



ARNO S. PEARSE, 



General Secretary. 



