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the day’s deliveries of the different qualities (without guarantee as to 
quantities), each native then delivering his parcels of those qualities 
at the stores of the successful bidders (as the deliveries of different 
qualities would often .be purchased by different buyers), where he was 
paid by the buyer under supervision and assistance by the 
Agricultural Officer. One advantage of this method of selling large 
deliveries of undefined quantites was the elimination of the small 
speculator, who was not in a‘ position of certainty for providing cover 
for his purchases. 
The quickly continued increase in production necessitated a still 
further widening and simplification of the system; and this is the 
method in operation for cotton auction markets at the present time. 
In this, deliveries of seed-cotton during periods of a week, a fortnight, 
or a month (depending on the quantity likely to come in) are sold by 
auction at a convenient centre in the district just before each period 
to which the deliveries refer, samples of the different qualities being 
exhibited by the Agricultural Department at the auction and at the 
buying centres, and the successful bidders entering into an under- 
taking to pay the prices at which the deliveries were knocked down, 
and to grade according to those samples. All this is carried on under 
the activity and inspection of a District Agricultural Officer, who 
where requisite is assisted by temporary market supervisors 
(Europeans). Among the other advantages, this system possesses 
that of greater popularity among native sellers than the former ones, 
as it supplies buying centres open at any time in the picking season 
for deliveries, instead of periodical markets affording only interrupted 
opportunities for selling. 
There is no doubt that the quick increase in native cotton growing 
in the Territory and the high opinion on the Liverpool market of the 
cotton thus produced are due in the first place to these markets, 
through which natives were encouraged by fair prices for the different 
qualities to grow cotton and to sort it carefully; the latter having 
become a habit that has continued where Cotton Auction Markets 
have been replaced by (central) Cotton Markets. Their success has 
been in the first place due to the energy and enthusiasm of District 
Agricultural Officers doing the work for them, and to the freely given 
assistance of Administrative Officers (who have had to conduct them 
alone in some cases) and of the Treasury (which has provided cash 
facilities), as well as (in Rufiji) the help of the officials of the Empire 
Cotton Growing Corporation. 
The table at the end of the paper (which of course does not give 
figures of total production) shows that the quantity of seed-cotton sold 
at the auctions in any one year quickly reached (in 1924) over 4,500 
tons for which native producers received more than £120,000. In 
the four years the total amount of seed-cotton dealt with at the 
auctions was more than 7,300 tons for which native growers were 
richer by a sum exceeding £180,000. The table also demonstrates 
well the quick decline in 1925 in the total quantity of cotton handled 
at these markets owing to their replacement by open cotton markets 
in the Morogoro District (with Kilosa), Lindi, and Tabora, their 
substitution in the first of these districts having the greatest effect on 
account of its predominating output. 
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