TUESDAY, JUNE 23.—-AFTERNOON SESSION, 
4.30 P.M. 
British Cotton Cultivation. 
‘Chairman: THe Earvt or Dersy, G.C.V.O., President of the 
British Cotton Growing Association. 
THE CHAIRMAN: Gentlemen—As you have been informed 
it is as President of the British Cotton Growing Association 
that I have had the honour of being asked to take the Chair 
to-day for Mr. Hutton, the Chairman of that Association, 
and nothing could have given me greater pleasure than to 
preside at a meeting at which a past master of the art of 
cotton growing is to read a paper which I am sure will 
interest all of you. 
I am afraid that to a certain extent the British Cotton 
Growing Association is a somewhat selfish concern, as it 
exists for the purpose of growing cotton in British territory, 
and principally for British use. But during the various 
operations that have gone on in the course of the past few 
years we have gained a vast amount of experience—I may 
add at a considerable cost—and that experience, although 
it was primarily intended for the use of our own nation, is 
only too willingly placed at the disposal of the whole world, 
in the hope that every nation may, in the territories belong- 
ing to it, grow cotton good enough and ample enough 
for its requirements. I have the greatest possible pleasure 
in calling upon Mr. Hutton to read his paper—a paper 
which he has written on behalf of the British Cotton 
Growing Association, an Association which has the approval 
and the full support of His Majesty’s Government. 
