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point of view I cordially appreciate what he has said. I believe 
that the growing of more and better cotton in India will on 
the whole conduce to the general prosperity and to the greater 
prosperity of the cotton manufacturers of the world. 
Mr. J. S. J. McCatx (Director of Agriculture, Nyasaland): 
Mr. President—I have listened with much interest to Mr. 
Schmidt’s paper. This is by no means the first communication 
Mr. Schmidt has made to those engaged in the extension of 
the cotton industry throughout the Empire, and it is very 
pleasing to hear a man who is so intimately connected with 
the commercial side of the question giving some praise to the 
endeavours of the agricultural experts. 
M. Brenier (French Indo-China): Mr. President—I did not 
intend to take part in the discussion on the interesting paper 
which has just been read, but I venture to put before the 
Congress a fact which may perhaps interest it. It is that in 
French Indo-China, in Cambodia, we are going to undertake 
the scientific culture of Cambodia cotton, which was singled 
out in Mr. Schmidt’s paper as being an interesting variety of 
cotton. At present there is an annual export from Indo-China 
of about 5,000 tons of this cotton, which is all taken by Japan. 
I was very much struck by what Mr. Schmidt told us about 
the general yield of Cambodia cotton in India. I am not quite 
sure whether we can put forward the same figures as Mr. 
Schmidt quoted—soo Ib. per acre, if I am not mistaken—but 
we intend to study the cotton in a scientific way, and have 
just started a special cotton farm for this purpose. I thought 
this fact might perhaps interest the Congress. 
Sir JamEs Wixson: Mr. President and Gentlemen—I venture 
to say a few words on this question, because I was Secretary 
to the Government of India in the Agricultural Department 
when that letter to which Lord Derby referred came to Lord 
Curzon, and I had a good deal to do in India with the work 
of the improvement and encouragement of cotton cultivation 
which resulted from that letter. I am very pleased to hear 
that the arrangements then made—about ten years ago, I 
think, or more—have on the whole turned out very successful. 
I was astounded to hear of the very large increase in the out- 
turn of cotton in India which is expected this year. I think, 
if I remember rightly, the figures have gone up from about 
3,000,000 bales four or five years ago to an expected outturn 
of 6,000,000 bales this year. I have not myself been following 
the recent reports on the outturn of cotton in India, but I 
should imagine that this great increase in the production which 
is expected this year must be due not so much to what may 
be called a normal increase in the growth of cotton, but to an 
exceptionally favourable season. I am afraid it would be a 
