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PART III.
COTTON.
The normal constitution of the Cotton Section was as follows:
Mr. S. Milligan (Chairman)..... Empire Cotton Growing Corporation,
South Africa.
Mr. A.'G. Bailey.................. Kenya.
Mr. G. S. Cameron.............. Southern Rhodesia and Empire Cotton
Growing Cotton Corporation.
Mr. H. C. Ducker................ Empire Cotton Growing Corporation,
Nyasaland.
Senhor M. Grillo.................. Portuguese East Africa.
Mr. P. Koch........................ Union of South Africa.
Mr. G. W. Nye.........5.co0mnik Uganda.
Mr. F. R. Parnell................ Empire Cotton Growing Corporation,
South Africa.
Senhor Li. de Sa Pereira........ Portuguese East Africa.
Mr. E. F. Salter.................. Empire Cotton Growing Corporation,
Northern Rhodesia.
Mr. R. C. Wood.................. Empire Cotton Growing Corporation,
Swaziland.
Technical Secretary ... Mr. P. Booth.
Other members of the Conference attended for certain items.
CHAPTER 1.
SUMMARY OF WORK OF COTTON SECTION.
(Chiefly concerning plant breeding and seed distribution.)
The Cotton Section of the Conference was composed generally of
representatives of the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation from South
Africa, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Swaziland,
and also representatives of the Agricultural Departments of South
Africa, Southern Rhodesia, Kenya, Uganda, and Portuguese East
Africa, while for special items other representatives were also present;
this Section also held several joint meetings with the Agricultural and
Entomological and Mycological Sections to discuss matters of common
interest.
The Section at its preliminary meeting considered that the chief
object of the Conference was the utilisation of the opportunity offered
to co-workers on Agricultural problems in Africa to meet each other
and thus obtain the acknowledged benefit from consultation and
discussion which such occasions presented. The best of this
opportunity, anyhow so far as those interested in Cotton were
concerned, would, it was considered, be made if discussions were ag
informal as possible; formality generally had the effect of suppressing
discussion among the more junior members and encouraging prepared
statements by the more senior members, a course of action which was
unlikely to be productive of good results in Cotton problems.