MONDAY, JUNE 29.—-MORNING SESSION. 
Cotton Cultivation. 
Chairman: Fre-p-MarsHaL Eart KITCHENER, K.P., G.C.B., 
O.M., G.C.S.1., G.C.M.G., Honorary Vice-President 
of the Congress. 
THE PresipentT: Gentlemen—Lord Kitchener, who very 
kindly promised to take the chair at this meeting, has not 
yet been able to arrive from the country, and I therefore 
propose to take the chair until he comes. I will in the 
first place ask Mr. Arno Schmidt to read a paper on 
“©The World’s Demand for Cotton, and India’s Share in 
Meeting It.” 
THE WORLD’S DEMAND FOR COTTON AND INDIA’S SHARE IN 
MEETING IT. 
By Arno SCHMIDT, 
Secretary of the International Federation of Master Cotton 
Spinners’ and Manufacturers’ Associations. 
[ ABSTRACT. ] 
Reviewing the potentialities of the cotton-growing countries 
of the world, one is bound to come to the conclusion that India 
alone is the country from which the present generation can 
hope to obtain the additional supplies of raw cotton to meet 
the ever-increasing demand. 
The progress made in Sind, Punjab, North-West Frontier 
Province, United Provinces, Madras, Central Provinces, 
Bombay, Burma, Assam, and Baroda, which have been visited 
by the writer, points to the possibility of increasing the total 
crop of Indian cotton within five years to about ten million 
bales, but in order to achieve this the staff of agricultural 
farming experts under Government employment must be 
considerably enlarged. The Indian Government could not 
invest money in a more productive way than by engaging 
many more of these experts. A comparison of the expendi- 
ture of other countries on agriculture shows that an increase 
in the expenditure for agriculture by the Indian Government 
