16 SITUATION IN COTTON-GROWING TERRITORIES 
courageous attempts to grow the crop. Of these loans approximately 
one third has already been repaid. 
In 1925 Mr. Salter was appointed by the Corporation as cotton 
specialist, and in 1926 Mr. Milligan, the Corporation’s senior officer 
in the Union, paid a visit to the Colony to advise the Government 
regarding further investigations. - He recommended the creation of 
an experiment farm. This the Government have established at 
Mazabuka, some 180 miles north-east of Livingstone, and Mr. Me- 
Ewen, an ex-student who had already had experience under the 
Corporation in Tanganyika and Nyasaland, was appointed by the 
Government to take charge of it. In 1927 the Corporation, to their 
regret, had to dispense with the services of Mr. Salter, who was obliged 
bo relinquish his appointment on account of ill-health. 
The Government have appointed Mr. Moffat, another ex-student 
of the Corporation, to take charge of cotton development south of 
Lake Tanganyika; the Corporation are paying half his salary. 
The future of Northern Rhodesia as a cotton-growing area is 
still uncertain. The great need is to find a suitable type of seed, 
and this it is hoped to provide, as tests are being made at Mazabuka, 
where Mr. McEwen is in touch with the experiment stations in 
Southern Rhodesia and the Union. 
ResearcH, DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION, AND PERSONNEL. 
The need for strengthening the Colonial Agricultural Departments 
was emphasized by the Empire Cotton Growing Committee of the 
Board of Trade, and it was recognized by the Corporation on their 
formation that work towards this end would be at once one of their 
most important and difficult tasks. Before 1922 it was a matter of 
extreme difficulty to find anyone who was sufficiently well qualified to 
be able to advise any Agricultural Department as regards cotton-grow- 
ing, and had it not been that circumstances enabled a certain number 
of experienced agricultural officers from India to accept appointment 
under the Corporation, an extension of knowledge of the require- 
ments of this crop and its development among the agricultural exports 
from tropical parts of the Empire would almost certainly have been 
lelayed. 
It was this shortage of man power that led the Corporation to 
[rame a scheme for the award of scientific and agricultural Student- 
ships, by which men who had as a rule taken a degree or its equivalent 
in pure science or agriculture were given one or two years’ specialized 
training, and the best evidence that the scheme has proved a success