. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 310 THE AGKICULTUKAL NEWS. October 1, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date September 12, with refer- ence bo the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— A moderate business has been done in West Indian Sea Islands since our last report, chiefly in Barbados and St. Croix at Idid. There has also been a sale of St. Vincent stains at l'2d. The buyers who purchased stained V\ est Indian early in the season, to take the place of Egyptian, have ceased to
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 310 THE AGKICULTUKAL NEWS. October 1, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date September 12, with refer- ence bo the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— A moderate business has been done in West Indian Sea Islands since our last report, chiefly in Barbados and St. Croix at Idid. There has also been a sale of St. Vincent stains at l'2d. The buyers who purchased stained V\ est Indian early in the season, to take the place of Egyptian, have ceased to use them, owing to the fall in price of the latter growth, and we therefore can only depend upon the ordinary Sea Island buyers, who value them on a distinctly lower basis. It would be difficult to dispose of them at a considerable decline from our original valuations. The Florida market opens at I'd. to 18rf., which is about Id. to 2d. per B). more than was expected, but we do not think that the present quotations will be held for long, as the crop appears to be a fairly satisfactory one. The report of Messrs. Henry \V. Frost & Co., on Sea Island cotton in the Southern States, for the week ending September 'A, is as follows:— As the crop is reported to be two weeks backward, and harvesting has been delayed by recent heavy rains, we do not think that receipts of the new crop will be large enough to admit of the market opening before the middle of October. The stock remaining on hand here of old crop cotton is only 53 , consisting of planters' crop lots, held at 40c. to 50c. It is quite impossible just now to say at what price the market will open, but we will, later on, endeavour to give you some approximate idea of the views of buyers. COTTON-GROWING IN INDIA. The Textile Mercury for August 6,1910, gives an account of the proceedings nf a recent deputation to Lord Morley, at the India Office, the purpose of which was to urge the desirabilit}' of the provision, b
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