. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 342 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWb. October 30, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholine-nnd Holland, of Liverpool, ivrite as follows, under dnte October 11, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since our last report, about 20O bales West Indian Sea Islands have been sold ; they chiefly consist of the remainders of crops, and include Barbados, I2ld. to l^^ld.; St. Croix, 12ld. tolUd.; St. Vincent, lUA to lold.; "Tobago, 15d; Antigua, 13-|rf. to 15^rf.; Jamaica, 13d; St. Kitts, IHrf. t
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 342 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWb. October 30, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholine-nnd Holland, of Liverpool, ivrite as follows, under dnte October 11, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since our last report, about 20O bales West Indian Sea Islands have been sold ; they chiefly consist of the remainders of crops, and include Barbados, I2ld. to l^^ld.; St. Croix, 12ld. tolUd.; St. Vincent, lUA to lold.; "Tobago, 15d; Antigua, 13-|rf. to 15^rf.; Jamaica, 13d; St. Kitts, IHrf. to 13^(7.; St. Lucia, l-jr/.;and Nevis, 13;',(/., the remainder being stains at 7hd. Prices of all Sea Lsland descriptions are hardening, and iiuotations of Georgias and Floridas are raised \ld. per lb., this being the advance obtained for new crop. Carolinas and "West Indians are raised hi. per It), in sympathy. So far, the quality of the Georgia and Florida Sea Island is the best we Lave seen for several years. The report of Messrs. Hem y W. Frost & Co., on Sea Island cotton in the Southern States, for the week ending October 9, is as follows : — The Sea Island receipts during the week were '2!)" bales, making the total receipts of new crop cottou so far 325 bales. The factors have not sampled or ottered for .sale any of these receipts as yet, having agreed to delay opening the market nntil the movement is larger. However, they express a to contract to sell ahead 300 to 400 bales on a basis of Fully Fine, |(/. There has been no demand on this basis. The total weight of Sea Island seed-cotton sent in amounted to 747,506 lb. This was 220,894 lb. less than that received last .-ieason. The yield of lint was Iti., or 27-5 per cent, of the total weight of .seed-cotton received. This percentage 1'3 less than the record of tlic previous year, and is in no small niei\sure due to the lact that one or two large estates grew a fine variety
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