. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. January 6, COTTON PROSPECTS AT ST. VINCENT. The fullowiiig is an extract iVoui a letter from the Agricultural Superintendent, St. Vincent, to the Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture for the West Indies, dated December 9, 1905:— Cotton prospects continue bright, and I expect to have seed-cotton equal to upwards of 90 bales of lint stored at the factory by the end of next week. A good sign is the adjusting of the picking business. Last season considerable difficulty was experienced in g
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. January 6, COTTON PROSPECTS AT ST. VINCENT. The fullowiiig is an extract iVoui a letter from the Agricultural Superintendent, St. Vincent, to the Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture for the West Indies, dated December 9, 1905:— Cotton prospects continue bright, and I expect to have seed-cotton equal to upwards of 90 bales of lint stored at the factory by the end of next week. A good sign is the adjusting of the picking business. Last season considerable difficulty was experienced in getting labour to pick the cotton, but this season the difficulty has almost disappeared. One [ilanter, who had trouble from this cause last season, tells me that people are leaving other work to pick cotton this season, and had he known this earlier he would have put in a much larger acreage. The three or four small growers who planted this j'ear are getting excellent returns and will do well. This fact is also encouraging. ANTIGUA COTTON GINNERY. The Hon. Dr. Francis Watts has addressed to the Colonial Secretary, Antigua, a report on the working of the cotton ginnery in that ishind. The following information is extracted from this report:— The Antigua cotton ginnery having now been at work for two seasons, a time sufficiently long to have carried the work beyond the experimental stage, it appears desirable to review the position. The ginnery was opened by Lady Edeline Strickland on December 11, 1903, and has ginned bales (of 200 Vk) for the crop of 190-34, and 304 hales (of ISO ft.) for the crop of 1904 5. The equipment of the ginnery is as follows :—• There are two single-action roller gins and one double-action, converted into a single-action gin. During the first season the ginnery was run by means of a portable steam engine lent by the Government of Dominica : for the second season's work a petroleum engine (Cundall type) was substituted and has worked very s
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