. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 326 THE AGRICULTUEAL NEWS. October 15, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date September Sti, with refer- ence to the sale of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— West Indian Sea Islands have been rather neglected since our last report, as bu_yers are waiting to see the price at which American Sea Island cotton is likely to rule before buying freely. The .sales were at first contined to about 40 bales of stained cotton at 9|rf. to \'2d. per lb. Later 150 b
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 326 THE AGRICULTUEAL NEWS. October 15, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date September Sti, with refer- ence to the sale of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— West Indian Sea Islands have been rather neglected since our last report, as bu_yers are waiting to see the price at which American Sea Island cotton is likely to rule before buying freely. The .sales were at first contined to about 40 bales of stained cotton at 9|rf. to \'2d. per lb. Later 150 bales were sold; they comprised Jamaica, St. Croix, Anguilla, Virgin Islands and Barbuda, at 18rf. to ISic?., and a few Barbados at I9d. The report of Messrs. Henry W. Frost. & Co., on Sea Island cotton in the Southern States, for the week ending September 24, is as follows:— There have been no receipts of the new crop as yet, and owing to the backwardness of the crop it may be a fortnight before it commences to come to market. COTTON-GROWING IN EGYPT. Mr. Lawrence Balls, the Economic Botanist to the Khedivial Agricultural Society, has just published an im- portant statement with reference to the suspected between the repeated partial failures of the Egyptian cotton crop and the cumulative water-logging of subsoil. The present appearance of the Egyptian cotton crop is excellent. The acreage is unusually large, and the plant promises well. The Government has prolonged the period of restricted water- supply to the cultivators, but it is feared that the level of the water table and the condition of the subsoil are such as may yet cause a rapid deterioration in the condition of the plants. In Mr. Ball's opinion the collapse of the 1909 crop was principally due to the accumulation of water in the subsoil, raising the well-level or water table, and so leaving insufficient soil for healthy root development. A geologist, a mathematician, two chemists, an entomologist,
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