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a greater quantity of cotton for treatment in the future. 

 The third, which is working in the Western Province, is 

 the Churchill Ginnery at Lafenwa, near Abeokuta. 

 Smaller ginneries have been erected at Eruwa Road, 

 Iwo, Oyo, and Agege in the Western Province, but are 

 at present unused. In the Central Province the Illushi 

 Ginnery on the Niger is capable of treating all the cotton 

 of the adjoining districts. A photograph of cotton bales 

 at Ibadan is reproduced (Fig. 23). 



At Ibadan an oil mill has been erected in connection 

 with the Marlborough Ginnery, and the expression of 

 oil from the seed is regularly carried on. The seed cake 

 which is turned out is found to be of rather inferior 

 quality for European consumption, as the excess of 

 woolly seed renders it undesirable for cattle food. A 

 very economical local use for this cake has recently been 

 discovered namely the employment of it to generate 

 gas to drive the machinery of the ginnery. It has been 

 found that 6 cwt. of cotton-seed cake is sufficient to 

 generate gas to drive the 30 h.p. oil-mill engine for nine 

 and a half hours. This discovery suggests the possibility 

 of doing without coal entirely at the ginneries, which 

 would mean a very large saving in the cost of production 

 of cotton. 



The cotton ginned by the British Cotton Growing 

 Association is baled for the most part in rectangular 

 oblong form, each bale weighing approximately 400 Ibs. 

 The production of the country has shown a rapid increase, 

 especially in the earlier years, though more recently one 

 of the seasons proved a short one owing to adverse climatic 

 conditions. 



1902 

 1903 

 1904 

 1905 

 1906 

 1907 



Weight cwts. 



110 



2,588 



. 10,255 



. 12,275 



. 24,071 



. 36,513 



1908 

 1909 

 1910 

 1911 

 1912 

 1913 



Weight cwta. 

 20,485 

 . 44,937 

 . 22,128 

 . 19,984 

 . 39,043 

 . 56,796 



Weight cwts. 



1914 no figure given 



1915 . 24,081 



1916 . 66,555 



1917 . 47,137 



1918 . 13,214 



1919 . 60,221 



The exports of cotton- seed in 1912 and 1913 reached 

 4,058 tons and 5,887 tons respectively. (" Cotton 

 Varieties," cf. Bull. Imp. lust., vol. xv. [1917]). Much 

 is expected from this new development. 

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