Bisbee daily review., 1916-03-05
COTTON ID ASSIST ENGLAND
 AND ALLIED POWERS
Writers Exposition of Possi- bilities of Cotton Produc. ton in Australia Cause of Impetus.

BRISBANE, Australia (Correspon- Ience of the Associated Press)-Cot- ton growing in Australia to help Brit 1 ain and her allies was decided upon recently al a public meeting held at Mount Morgan in Northern Queens l land.
 It is recalled that toward the close If the Civil War in the United States Queensland took to cotton culture to meet the English demand which was enormous and has been greatly in creased by the impoverishment of the | South; and in 1871 the cotton exports from Australia amounted to 2,500,000 pounds. When cotton growing recov- cred in the United States, that country produced it in huge quantities and, in order to dispose of it, sold it at such low figures that the Queensland grow CTS could not compete with profit at
 he American price, and the industry | finally languished. The present cot 'Cn-growing campaign owes itself to an article written for a Rockhampton newspaper by G. Stephen Hart, F. R. s. In the course of this MT. Hart said:
 To-day the government guarantees o advance three cents per pound on
 aw cotton, to gin it. export it, and sell t. and give any further profit obtained
 0 the producer
 "The individual farmer is not yet
 onvinced that he could grow cotton
 t profit, but now there is nation ,l reason why he should try. Now, it
 no exaggeration to say that the ex- 'stence of the empire is largely de- pendent on the available supply of cot on, fer no cotton, no shells has be- come an accepted axiom. If ever Aus
 ralia could be invaded or cut off from other lands by ocean raids we might realize to our cost no cotton in Aus
 ralia, TO shells in Australia
 For ten million soldiers one pound If cotton per man would mean about i,500 tons I do not know how many pounds of high explosives made from ,otton, each soldier. on the average. lses in one year, but as guide it may be taken that one pound of cordite is | equired for about 250 rife cartridges, and 800 pounds of cotton makes one large fer one 15-inch shell for the l Queen Elizabeth. That illustrious ,hemist savant, Sir William Ramsay, las. with others. been asserting again | nd again that no cotton means no 7heils. and has at last prevailed upon he Allies 10 declare cotton cOntraband | of war Cannot we, too. learn the les | son that no cotton means no shells, | Snd that unless We have cotton in Aus tralia we are defenseless? Shall wei Erow it os import it? Or shall we sit | town without it till we see if anybody | comes our way?
 "A number of filters are 10 be used n Queensland to hake shells. A sin yle lathe capable of making 20 shells | day is gladly accepted. So would contribution of 1000 tons or even 100 tons of cotton. From world statis- ties it may be taken that five acres of ootton plants yield one ton of cotton. The yield from perennial cotton where unaffected by frosts, is as high as five pound of bolls or two and half pound of lint. As the picking necessitates considerable labor. it would seem bet ter for many to grow small areas of up to, say. five acres each, rather than fer individuals to attepms large planta tions.
 We have all Australia women work ng industriously at Red Cross work fer our soldiers. Individually, each ones work may seem but a drop in the ocean, but they are showing that suffi- cicnt drops make an ocean. Why should not each of the 10000 residents of Rockhampton, and each of the F 900 residents of Mount Morgan. grow one cotton plant? Their little contri- button could be taken to the munich pal authorities to forward to Brisbane. The governments advice could be a good addition to our patriotic funds.
 These suggestions are put forward with the hope that they will be i'm proved upon, and carried 10 a success ful issue, under the guidance of those arorg us who have many years sue cessful experience in cotton growing; but we should move quickly, as seed planted in September and October should produce a harvest about the close of the next European winter"
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