The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
COTTON IN AFRICA WORK BEING DONE BY TUsKE-
 GEE NEGROES. So Far the Experiments Have Not Been Crowned With the Success
 Hoped-Will Be
 Continued.

Atlanta, Ga, March S-Ihe German Colonial Economic Society of Berlin has issued an elaborate report of the work of the experimental cotton plantation in Togo. West Africa, managed by J. N. Galloway and three young negroes from Booker Washingtons school at Tuskegee, Ala
 The following is an abstruct from Su- perintendent Calloway's statement te the Society which is included in the report:
 Our planting covered six months time, but can be divided into two periods from March to June and from July to August. The rainy season began 1i March. but was very light at first. On March q we planted our first American cotton. about one and half acres. This sprouted quickly and grew nicely. After one month it was a foot and half high. April brought frequent. light rains. IL was good month Tor planting. During this month we planted twelve acres Of American cotton. In May twenty acres were planted. The rain during May was very heavy but did not injure the growt tn of the plants. In the first days of July very damaging rains came. The bolls of the early crop were entirely destroyed. The plants r,lsted and the bolls rotted without opening. Only two bales of cot ron were harvested from seed planted be- fore July; much more perished in the field.
 .,ln the months of July and August
  can and Egyptian cotton. September and October had less rain. but clouds and fog continued. By the end of October there was more sun and higher temperature. Seed planted in July and August pro- duced In December what would in Amer ica be called half q crop. small area was planted in October. but with little success, as rain ceased to fall soon af- terward
 Tn these experiments we used native American (upland and Sea 1siand). and Egyptian seed. Next year Peru seed will be tried. The largest part of the seed sown was American. I believe that by planting seed in late summer and thus avoiding the heavy rains, good results can be obtained with American cotton IL is proba ble, too. that better results can he obtained by using cotton seed or srti- fcial fertilizers. am of the opinion that by crossing native with American cotton a variety ada pted to the colony can be secured.
 One hundred acres of land in all were cultivated, Up |, tho end of December twcnty-three balcs of cotton were in readiness to ship. Thirteen of these were from native seed. nine from American seed and one from Egyptian seed The na- tfves grow cotton as a secondary product with yams There is sufficient good cotton land The expedition intends to distrib- ute good cotton seed to the natives. In native cotton Ihe proportion between lint and seed was 1.Soo pounds of seed cotton to a bale of JO0 pounds. The crop from American seed showed the same propcr- ton as in America, i. e., l,500 pounds of seed cotton 70 a bale
 ''The natives must be taught to culti- vaee more cotton on the same ground with the same labor. If possible they must be furnished with draught ami mals Although It was known that no animal could resist ;he climate, twenty horses and twenty oxen were brought from the interior. The tsetse fly soon be- gan its fatal work and by September all the animals were dead. Experiments should be continued with native horses. After our namilas died 1t was necessary to depend on native labor for everything. and natives drew the bales of cotton tO the coast on lumber wagons. Portable en- zines should be introduced to furnish power for ginning and balinE and rail way should be built from the coast in land. Our experiment. has given us ev- erv reason to believe that in lew years it will be possible to export many thou sands of bales of cotton from the colony of Togo. This will not have any euect on the markets of tho world, but il Wlll he of advantage to Germany and especially to the two and half millions or nd- tives in the colony.
 finder present conditions the cost Of a 500 pound bale of cotton delivered at Bremen including Einnage. pressing and moving to the coast by native labor, ship ping ex penses sundrioS. insurance. etc, is a25 marks Cal bout S63.
 "If crossing natjVo with American seed makes it possible to get bale from troduction of steam power for ginning. baling and haulin" lowers the cost to equivalent expenses in America. 1t should be possible to produce a bale of cotton or inc same quality to b" laid down in Bremen for 190 marks (about AD.