Done by producing articles finer and superior in quality than our competitors can produce. For this, we must have ample supplies of the longer, finer, and better qualities of cotton, Lancashire is dependent on America for 83.7 percent of the cotton required for the spindles, which have increased to 60,000,000 and looms to 60,000 and as America consumes more every year, it means short, time, and other difficulties for Lancashire mills besides a shrinkage in exports of cotton goods.
Great Britain, according to Mr. Hutton, is not obtaining the same proportion of the American crop as formerly. In the period 1890-1880, Great Britain took 36.8 percent of the American crop, but for the period 1910-1916 it was only 26.6 percent. This to accounted for by the recently created consumption on the part of America, and if the cotton trade of the world is to be in a position to maintain the natural increase in the demand, increased production every year of least 600,000 bales is necessary.

Butardinizing the possibilities of cotton grown within the British empire, Mr. Hutton considers these are too good but the war has set back the scheme for increasing such growth in various parts. India knows hardly any cotton suitable to the Lancashire trade. Egypt produces the sort required, but in insufficient quantities: Uganda cotton is all that could be desired by the trade received a severe hand.  By the war, Nigeria shows the possibilities, with a production of 1000 bales, but here against the difficulty is to establish a good variety which will make the industry profitable to the native. In urging the government to immediate action and to consider the question. 