To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuiva Dairy News."
Sin,—About ten years ago, I had the honour of hearing two or three interesting lectures by Mr. C. Kearsley, in which he told of his experiences in cotton growing in West Africa and Egypt some ten years previously.
During the course of these lectures, he stated that Chinese cotton could be improved by following such methods as had been employed in the above mentioned countries, the methods bein; chiefly. the careful selection an distribution of seed, classification of cotton. and the education of the native cotton growers in irrigation and the use. of fertilizers.
I believe that attempts to improve Chinese cotton by the above methods (irrigation excepted) have been carried out during the past few years, but after reading the letters of such well-known cotton experts as Mr. Kerfoot and Mr. Whitworth, (which were published recently in the '"'North-
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