Show Germany is making strong effort I to establish cotton culture In west Africa Af-rica and the results will be watched j for with great Interest The work is tinder the direction of four American i I negroes selected by Booker T WashIngton I Wash-Ington at the request of the German Government They are now ducln west Africa They took with them a i supply of cotton seed agricultural Implements Im-plements and cotton gins They have gone with a full equipment for growing grow-ing and marketing the staple and the I whether the soil and is r only problem whethcl sol i tho climate of the country thoy have J gone to U be favorable for the raising 1 rais-ing of cotton Germanys hope Iii to I make herself Independent of the cotton cot-ton producers of Egypt India and the l United States There is a great deal I to the cotton planters of the United States depending on the result of that I experiment beaus If It succeeds there it will succeed likewise In upper Egypt I and between the German nna the English En-glish colonies there ought to be cotton cot-ton enough raised to supply Europe In that case the cotton culture oC the United Slates would have tobc limited lim-ited mostly to what the United States and SpanishAmerica will need with a growing demand the Orient especially espe-cially after the completion of the Isthmus Isth-mus canal By the way there Is a I colon tree grown In upper Egypt which we have more than once m denote si de-note of and the seeds of which It ass as-s ldJast year were being planted in Georgia The Agricultural department I ought to give the result of the experiment experi-ment I |