A 1902 article arguing that West Africa could become a major source of raw cotton if it were grown systematically as an annual crop rather than gathered from indigenous perennial trees. It reviews the cotton shortages affecting Lancashire spinners, compares Africa with India and the United States, and draws on the records of the Cotton Supply Association (1857-71) and its journal, the Cotton Supply Reporter. It covers attempts at cultivation in Lagos, Yoruba country, Liberia and the Gold Coast, with import statistics for 1859-70, and notes the decline of native handloom weaving as imported cloth spread. It closes with recommendations on gins, buying agencies, native versus exotic seed, and transport.

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.

An English translation of a 1901 French article by the botanist A. Chevalier on the prospects for growing cotton in Senegambia and the French Soudan, introduced by a note on the founding of the British Cotton Growing Association. It describes the four Gossypium species cultivated there, the strengths and weaknesses of the native Soudan cotton (fibre length, adherence of the wool to the seed), hybridisation and selection, and estimated yields, costs and revenues. An appendix surveys European attempts to grow cotton in West Africa from the 18th century through the 1890s.