. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 166 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. May 28, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date May 9, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since our last report, about 400 bales of AVest Indian Sea Islands have been sold at firm prices. The sales include about 60 Anguilla, -lOid. to 21(1: 20 St. Martin, 20Ad. to 2\d.: 60 Nevis, I9hd. to 21d; 50 Mont- serrat, 18(1 to 20d.: 80 8t. Kitts, 20rf. to 22irf.: 20 Antigua, 20rf. to 21(7.; 60 Barbuda, 20r
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 166 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. May 28, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date May 9, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since our last report, about 400 bales of AVest Indian Sea Islands have been sold at firm prices. The sales include about 60 Anguilla, -lOid. to 21(1: 20 St. Martin, 20Ad. to 2\d.: 60 Nevis, I9hd. to 21d; 50 Mont- serrat, 18(1 to 20d.: 80 8t. Kitts, 20rf. to 22irf.: 20 Antigua, 20rf. to 21(7.; 60 Barbuda, 20r/.: Virgin Isles, 21rf ; 20 Barbados, 20'i. to 21(?.; and about -50 Stains from various Islands at 13d to 16rZ. The report of Messrs. Henry W. Frost & Co., on Sea Island cotton in the Southern States, for the week ending April 30, is as follows:— The market is very quiet, with apparently no demand. The unsold stock is very small, and consists principally of Planters' crop lots held at .38c., 40c., and .50c. BACTERIAL DISEASE OF COTTON. During the cotton season of 1909, the attention of the Mycologist was called to the apparent prevalence of the disease of cotton bolls throughout practically all the islands of the Windward and Leeward groups. Notice was first taken of it in Montserrat, and specimens were forwarded to the Head Oftice and examined in October of last year. The disease appears to be fairly common in Barbados and, accord- ing to the observation's of the Imperial Commissioner, is of frequent occurrence in Antigua and the majority of the Leeward Islands. While never assuming the proportions of an epidemic, it would seem to cause a constant loss every year, which may vary according to the season, from 2 per cent, to possibly as much as 20 per cent, of the cotton crop. These figures are, however, very uncertain, as no experiments have yet been conducted to discover definitely the extent of the damage done. The disease appears to be the same as that described
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