32 COTTON 
WORLD'S DEMAND WILL GROW FASTER THAN FOREIGN 
PRODUCTION 
It is not likely, of course, that all these attempts 
to grow cotton outside the South will fail utterly; 
but what does seem sure is that the world’s demand 
for cotton will grow much faster than the foreign 
supply, and that therefore our country will be called 
on in the future, as heretofore, for a constantly in- 
creasing crop. 
And in support of this opinion the writer will 
quote just three opinions, and then pass on to other 
subjects. 
First, our own National Department of Agricul- 
ture in its Crop Reporter for December, 1905, 
makes this conservative statement of fact: “The 
organized efforts of powerful associations of cotton 
manufacturers in Great Britain, Germany, and 
France to establish and stimulate cotton production 
in the colonies of these countries, which began early 
in 1903 with a large capital subscribed for promo- 
tion, have so far resulted in no perceptible addition 
to the world’s cotton crop, and there are no present 
indications of a competition of new fields of produc- 
tion which will materially affect the foreign market 
for the upland cotton of this country for many 
years.” 
LOWER SOUTH AMERICA ALONE CAN COMPETE WITH 
THE SOUTH 
Even more interesting is the opinion of the late 
Edward Atkinson, as given in an article in the 
Manufacturers’ Record in 1903. During the Civil 
War Mr. Atkinson imported cotton from India, 
Egypt, China, West Africa, Peru and Brazil, and 
his conclusion is that nearly all the foreign cotton 
