. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 278 THE AGRICULTUKAL NEWS. September 5, WEST INDIAN COTTON ON THE LIVERPOOL MARKET. Messrs. Wolstenholme & Holland, of Liverpool write as follows, (imler (late of August 17 last, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton ®n the Liverpool market:— There lias been a moderate enijuiry for West Indian Sea Island cotton since our last report. This has resulted in the sales of about 130 bales, comprising Barbados, St. Kitt's, St. Croix, and St. Martin, principally at 14rf. to loit, with a te
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 278 THE AGRICULTUKAL NEWS. September 5, WEST INDIAN COTTON ON THE LIVERPOOL MARKET. Messrs. Wolstenholme & Holland, of Liverpool write as follows, (imler (late of August 17 last, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton ®n the Liverpool market:— There lias been a moderate enijuiry for West Indian Sea Island cotton since our last report. This has resulted in the sales of about 130 bales, comprising Barbados, St. Kitt's, St. Croix, and St. Martin, principally at 14rf. to loit, with a tew bales at 16rf. It will be seen, therefore, that prices are without ,ehanc»e. COTTON PLANTING MACHINES. The following article dealing with the use of machines in planting Sea Island cotton has been contributed by Mr. Thomas Thornton, , late Travelling Inspector in eounexioti with Cotton Investi- gations under the Imperial Department of Agri- culture :— The introduction of machinery to take the i)lace of hand labour and to cheapen the cost of proihu-tion is occnning as rapidly in connexion with agriculture as with other indus- tries, and it is important tliat agricullnrists should make themselves accpiaintcd witli tiie latest labour taxing iniple- incnts on the market. Growers of Sea Island cotton in the West Indies have to compete with producers in the Southern States of America, where a large part of the planting and cidtivation work is carried out by means of machinery which saves both labour and Labour, it is true, is not so costly in the West Indies as in the States, but cfimplaints are heard in many of the islands that labour is scarce, while in cases where there is no lack of men, the labourers aie frei|i;ei)tly uru-eliabli' and tfie work is done in an unsatisfactory manner. Cotton and other seeds liave, so far, in tlu'se <?.ilonies been planted almost exclusively by hand, but at the present time there a''e several simjile macliines on tlie mar
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