Cultivation of Cotton in Western Africa
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A 1903 article by Emile Baillaud, a French colonial agronomist, assessing the prospects for commercial cotton growing in West Africa. It reviews the German Togo Cotton Expedition of 1901, staffed by Tuskegee Institute personnel under James Calloway, and its results with planting, rains, pests and draught animals. It then compares climate, soil, labour and transport costs on the coast and in the Sudan interior, gives cost calculations for delivering a bale to Bremen, and recommends model farms and experimental stations for Germany, England and France. It concerns agriculture and the cotton trade, not weaving.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- January 1903
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 17
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