. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 182 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS June 10, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date May 18, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since our last report, there has been a fair OL(iuiry for West Indian Sea Island cotton. The sales chiefly comprise Barbados and St. Kilts, prices ranging from 16rf. tolS-/., the latter only for very superior cotton. A fair quantity of stains has been sold at 9d. The report of Messrs. Henry W. Frost & Co
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 182 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS June 10, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date May 18, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since our last report, there has been a fair OL(iuiry for West Indian Sea Island cotton. The sales chiefly comprise Barbados and St. Kilts, prices ranging from 16rf. tolS-/., the latter only for very superior cotton. A fair quantity of stains has been sold at 9d. The report of Messrs. Henry W. Frost & Co., on Sea Island cotton in the Southern States, for the week ending May 20, is as follows:— There was a good demand this week, resulting in sales of 2,800 bales, being composed chiefly of various grades of ofl" cotton ranging in prices from 2-2k. to , and several crop lots at 30c. The market closes firm with Factors refusing to go on to make further sales at an advance, which has not yet been paid, and therefore we renew our last quotations, viz : — Extra Fine odtl bags = No Stock. Extra Fine crop lots o2c. to 34c. and upwards = 18^/. to I'Jil. & 5 per cent. Fully Fine odd bags 28c. = 15^^ A 5 per cent. Selected odd bags Fine 27c. to 28c. = 15-^^/. to lo'id. & 5 per cent. 9 72 in 19u9. The figures for Germany are 30'62 bales as compared with 34'.51 bales last year and 40vS6 in the year before. For the United States the figures are 5351 bales, against 59'79 twelve months ago and '7S in the year before. The country which holds the largest stocks is Japan, the figures being 1G6 79 bales, as comiiared with 12u*85 last year and 131 77 bales in 1909. It says a great deal for the efficient working of the Federation, and for the pitch of perfection to wliich the system has been brought, that out of the estimated spinning spindles of the world in work of ,596,724, returns have been secured from firms owning 122, spindle
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