COTTON GROWING.

Otago Witness, Issue 3674, 12 August 1924, Page 6

COTTON GROWING.

OPERATIONS IN QUEENSLAND. (Fhom Oub Oun Cohbespondent.) \I ELLINGTON, August 3. Amongst the passengers by the Tahiti to-day from San Francisco was Mr Fred G. Brown, of Toogoolawah, Queensland, a prominent farmer of that State, and a n breeder of Friesian cattle and Duroc Jersey pigs. Mr Brown has just ompleted a trip to England and the United States. Mr Brown says, apropos of the likelihood of a cotton shortage in uie United States, that Queensland is likely to be a factor with an increasing output. He states that five, vears ago there were only 72 acres under cultivation. Last year there were 108,000 acres. The cotton produced in Queensland is worth from to 3d per lb more than American “middling,” which is the basis on which cotton values are made There is a company in Queensland called the Australian Cotton Growing Association, its main objects being to erect ginneries and mills for utilising the product of the cotton seed. They have already erected four ginneries in Queensland, and one in New South Wales, and they are now engaged in erecting cotton mills. This company is about 50 dpi - cent. Australian and 50 per cent. English, the shareholders in England being principally interested in. cotton spinning.