210 BRAZILIAN COTTON 



Synopsis of the Impressions of the 



INTERNATIONAL 

 COTTON MISSION 



on their Journey through some of 

 the Cotton States of Brazil 



=^ADDRESS BY MR. ARNO S. PEARSE, 



General Secretary of the International Federation of JVIaster 



Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers' Associations 



before the 



National Agricultural Society of Brazil, 



Rio de Janeiro. 16th August. 1921. 



(TRANSLATION OF THE REPORT ISSUED BY THE 

 "JORNAL DO COMMERCIO,' DATED 17th AND 19th AUGUST, 



1921.) 



At the Presidential table were seated His Excellency Ildefonso 

 Simoes Lopes, Minister of Agriculture. Lyra Castro, Vice-President 

 of the National Agricultural Society, and the Directors Eloy de Souza, 

 Bento de Miranda, Hannibal Porto, Augusto Ramos and Victor Leivas. 



There were also present, amongst many others, Messrs. Parreiras 

 Horta, Julio Cesar Lutterbach, Germano Courrege, J. A. da Costa 

 Pinto, Coronel Francisco Schmidt, Cardwell Quenn, Octavio Carneiro, 

 William W. Coelho de Souza, Aleides France, Eugenio R angel. Gomes 

 Carmo, A. Silva Couto, Nabuco de Gouvea, J. Catramby, J. Baptista 

 de Castro, J. Araujo Ferraz, Aristides Caire, Eniilo Schenk, Sampaio 

 Ferraz, Fidelis Reis, Consules Oscar Correa e Amynthas de Lima, 

 Arnoldo Murinelly, Alfredo de Andrade, Alberto Jacobina e Carlos 

 Raulino. 



His Excellency I. Simoes Lopes, who took the chair, stated that 

 the work of this meeting was to listen to the impressions which Mr. 

 Arno S. Pearse, the Chief of the International Cotton Mission, had 

 gathered during his protracted journey through some of the Cotton 

 Districts of Brazil. The Minister of Agriculture then said : — 



" In 1919 when the Brazilian Commercial Mission visited England, 

 it received an invitation from the International Federation of Master 

 Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers" Associations to present, at its 

 Committee Meeting in Paris, a report on the possibilities of Cotton 

 Growing in Brazil, and in response Mr. Roberto Cochrane Simonsen 



'The Address was given in Portuguese. 



