. Cotton and other vegetable fibres : their production and utilisation . ,355 1909 858,926 26,209 1910 1,736,999 58,687 1911 1,359,904 44,199 1912 3,237,555 80,939 1913 2,401,142 65,486 1914 2,648,508 72,068 191S 3,065,248 68,586 British West Indies Cotton was cultivated on an extensive scale in theWest Indies in the eighteenth century, and duringthe years 1786-1790 no less than 70 per cent, of theworlds commercial supply was obtained from theseislands. Recent efforts to resuscitate the industryhave met with great success. Sea Island cotton is thechief variety grown, but a small quantity of a
. Cotton and other vegetable fibres : their production and utilisation . ,355 1909 858,926 26,209 1910 1,736,999 58,687 1911 1,359,904 44,199 1912 3,237,555 80,939 1913 2,401,142 65,486 1914 2,648,508 72,068 191S 3,065,248 68,586 British West Indies Cotton was cultivated on an extensive scale in theWest Indies in the eighteenth century, and duringthe years 1786-1790 no less than 70 per cent, of theworlds commercial supply was obtained from theseislands. Recent efforts to resuscitate the industryhave met with great success. Sea Island cotton is thechief variety grown, but a small quantity of a nativetype, known as Marie Galante, is also produced,especially in the island of Carriacou, the chief depend-ency of Grenada ; the latter cotton has a length ofabout 1*2—r4 inches. Sea Island cotton is usuallyconsidered to be indigenous to the West Indies, butthe present crops are not obtained from the nativeplant, but are chiefly derived from seed of the Rivers type, which was imported from the Sea Islands ofSouth Carolina in 1903 by the Imperial Department PLATE V. Photograph by W. N. Saudi, Ginning Floor, Central Cotton Ginnery, St. Vincent
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