. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 230 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. July 1908,. WEST INDIAN COTTON. Planters will be glad to note by the accompany- ing letter from Messrs. Wolstenholme & Holland, dated July G, that an improved condition of affairs has lately prevailed on the Liverpool Sea Island cotton market:— Since our report a good business has been dmie in West Indian Sea Island cotton, and about 780 bales liu\x' been sold at steady prices. The enquiry lias been mostly confined to the lietter medium grades at IM. to 15'/., very little having
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 230 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. July 1908,. WEST INDIAN COTTON. Planters will be glad to note by the accompany- ing letter from Messrs. Wolstenholme & Holland, dated July G, that an improved condition of affairs has lately prevailed on the Liverpool Sea Island cotton market:— Since our report a good business has been dmie in West Indian Sea Island cotton, and about 780 bales liu\x' been sold at steady prices. The enquiry lias been mostly confined to the lietter medium grades at IM. to 15'/., very little having been sold above the latter figure. A fair quantity of stains have been .sfild at 7d. to Sd. per Hi. The sales include Auguilla, \5il.: Autiffua, 15(1.; Barbados, 14.',f/. to \5hd.; Mmitserrat, \5d. to i:j},d.; , 14]^?.; St. 'Croix Hrf. to 14^^/.: St Kitt's 14fcZ. to 15|c/.; and St ^farti 14'?. to IM. ARRIVAL OF COTTON GINNERY PLANT AT ST. LUCIA. The Wiler of .SV. 'cla, of July 4, coidained the accompanying note :— A conqtlete Cotton (Jinnery, with oil engine and all accessories has been received from (Jldham, Kngland, ly Messrs. Macfarlane, .Junior it Co., of St. Lucia. The building to contain the j)lant will be set up in between the new Public Works Yard and the Riverside Cemetery, facing the Castries river, and work on this is to commence at once. It is intended that everything shall be ready for taking otf tlte cotton crop to be ]>icked in the early months of 1909.' i'ho establishment of this ginnery should certainly be a stimulus to cotton-j)lanling operations in the island, and it is greatly to be hoped that the industry and this new venture of Messrs. Macfarlane, Junior & Co., will meet with the success deserved. COTTON CONFERENCE IN ENGLAND. The (Jonlcrence of cotton growers aiul spinners which has been arranged under the auspices of the British Cotton-growitig Association will be opened at Manchester on August .5, and, as reniarkcd by the
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