Abstract
THE report to the Board of Trade of the Empire Cotton Growing Committee has just been issued (Cmd. 523, price 1s. 6d. net). Briefly, the story there told may be summed up as follows: The British cotton mills have been directly adapted to utilise the American long-staple cottons, and they produce, in consequence, the high-class goods for which they are famed. The mills may, in fact, be described as unable to use up the abundant, though much shorter, staples of India and certain other countries of the British Empire. For some years past the mills of the States have begun to work up more and still more of their home supply (of superior cottons), so that the position has thus come about that Britain must be prepared, in the near future, to dispense with a large amount of the American raw cottons hitherto regarded as essential. In what way and how soon can this feat be accomplished? Delay may mean famine to the immense community (something like 5,000,000 people) more or less dependent on the cotton mills of Lancashire.
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WATT, G. Cotton Growing in the British Empire . Nature 104, 694–696 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104694a0
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