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Minimalpreisen der erzeugten Baumwolle fiir die Einge- 
borenen, sowie auf die technischen Fragen. 
Innerhalb der Jahre 1900 bis 1913 sind vom Kolonial-Wirt- 
schaftlichen Komitee und von der Regierung zusammen rund 
4 Millionen Mark zur Forderung des deutsch-kolonialen 
Baumwollbaues ausgegeben worden und man darf nach 
Ueberwindung der Anfangsschwierigkeiten in dem sproden 
tropischen Afrika, wo es an jeglichen Vorbildern und 
Erfahrungen fehlte, eine giinstige Entwicklung erhoffen. 
[ TRANSLATION. ] 
COTTON CULTIVATION IN THE GERMAN COLONIES. 
The development of cotton cultivation for export in the 
three German-African colonies of Togo, Cameroons, and East 
Africa has been making steady progress since the year IgIO. 
In Togo, as the land is mainly owned by the natives, cotton 
cultivation has from the outset been carried on in the shape of 
petty or peasant cultivation, and not on a plantation scale 
under the management of European proprietors, and the crop 
has increased from 40 bales of 250 kilograms in the year 1901 
to 2,200 bales in the year 1912. The main product is a native 
variety known under the name of ‘‘ Togo Sea Island cotton, 
which corresponds to a good American ‘* Upland Middling.”’ 
The cotton exportation of Togo is capable of further increase, 
but scarcely appears likely ever to be very extensive. 
Large portions of the Cameroons appear to possess the 
primary conditions for prospective development, when once 
the interior has been opened up by railways. Not only does 
cotton commonly grow wild in the grass lands there, but it 
is also cultivated on a large scale by the natives, although 
only for their own use. A dense and intelligent agricultural 
population is available here, and the Government has already 
established two agricultural experimental stations in these 
districts for the purpose of discovering and raising the most 
suitable varieties of cotton, instructing the natives in the 
cultivation of cotton for export, and training white and native 
travelling instructors in order that the extension of cultivation 
may take place on a secure basis as soon as improved facilities 
of transport make it remunerative. 
In Germany, however, the greatest hopes in respect of 
Colonial cotton cultivation are set upon German East Africa, 
where in the first instance Egyptian varieties were favoured, 
but for some years past the Upland varieties, which are more 
capable of resistance and which have proved satisfactory in 
