. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 246 TBB AGRICULTURAL NEWS. AuousT 6, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholine and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date July 18, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— A very limited business has been done in West Indian Sea Island cotton since our last report, chiefly confined to St. Vincent cotton from '20d. to 24^. Spinners are withholding from the market and prices have a downward tendency. We hear, however, that the American Sea crop is not doing so well,
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 246 TBB AGRICULTURAL NEWS. AuousT 6, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholine and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date July 18, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— A very limited business has been done in West Indian Sea Island cotton since our last report, chiefly confined to St. Vincent cotton from '20d. to 24^. Spinners are withholding from the market and prices have a downward tendency. We hear, however, that the American Sea crop is not doing so well, and if the ?weather does not improve, spinners will enter themarketagain. The report of Messrs. Henry W. Frosc & Co., oti Sea Island cotton in tiie Southern States, for the week ending July 2, is as follows:— Since our last report on .June 11, the market has remained dull, with no demand. The stock in Factors' hands is now reduced to .53 bales, consisting principally of Planters' crop lots, held at .50c. to 55c. There is also still left on plan- tation around Beaufort about 100 bales of Fully Fine. Although the .season has practically closed, yet it is possible that some demand may spring up for the limited supply left unsold, which may be required by the trade before the next crop comes to market. INDIAN COTTON IN TBEl UNITED STATES. In the current volume of the Agricultural Nc^vs, p. 200, a note appeared in relation to the recent impor- tation of cotton into the Southern States, for use in the mills. The report on which the information was based is given in I)i[iloiiiatic and Consular Reports, No. 4,416, Annual Series, fi-om which the following e.\tract relating to the matter is taken :— Owing to the unusually high prices prevailing in this country for cotton during the later months of 1909, several hundred bales of cotton were imported from India by several of the Carolina cotton mills, to be used as an experiment in combination with United States-grown cotton. Thi
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