. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 294 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. September 14, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholine and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date August 26, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— A fair bu-siness has been done in AVest Indian Sea Island cotton during the past fortnight, at the reduced prices men- tioned in our last report. The bulk of the business was from lid. to 16f?., with Stains 8hd. to 9^-d. and odd lots of extra quality St. Vincent at higher prices. The report of Mess
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 294 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. September 14, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholine and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date August 26, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— A fair bu-siness has been done in AVest Indian Sea Island cotton during the past fortnight, at the reduced prices men- tioned in our last report. The bulk of the business was from lid. to 16f?., with Stains 8hd. to 9^-d. and odd lots of extra quality St. Vincent at higher prices. The report of Messrs. Henry W. Frost & Co., on Sea Island cotton in the Southern States, for the week ending August 3, is, generally, as follows:— The market has continued dull with no enquiry, the only sales being 72 bales Fully Fine to Extra Fine slightly off in preparation, for English account. The Development of Cotton-growing in India.—On July 1, the Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for India, received at the India Office a deputation of English and Indian members of the International Cotton Committee, the purpose of which was to urge the necessity for the development of cotton-growing in India. In intro- ducing the deputation. Sir Charles Macara referred to the steady, increasing consumption of Indian cotton, outside of that country, and to the fact that circumstances make it easier to enlarge greatly the production of cotton in India than in any other country. Among the speakers was Mr. J. W. McConnel, who referred to what he had seen in the matters of cotton-growing and experimentation with the plant while on a visit to the West Indies (as a delegate to the Agricultural Conference of this year), speaking in favourable terms of the work of the Imperial Department of Agriculture, and of the local agricul- tural departments, and contrasting the comparatively large number of skilled investigators that are available for cotton experimentation, in these i-slands, with the number of
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