. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 70 THE AGKICULTURAL NEWS. March 5, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date February 14, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since our last report, about 300 bales of West Indian Sea Island cotton have been .sold, including Barbados ITirf. to •20d., St. Kitts ]S<i to 20rf., 17|(7. to I9il, Nevis 18rf., St. Croix ISirf., and St. Vincent 20in find, this surprise consisting, firstly, in the apparent uniformity of
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 70 THE AGKICULTURAL NEWS. March 5, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date February 14, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since our last report, about 300 bales of West Indian Sea Island cotton have been .sold, including Barbados ITirf. to •20d., St. Kitts ]S<i to 20rf., 17|(7. to I9il, Nevis 18rf., St. Croix ISirf., and St. Vincent 20in find, this surprise consisting, firstly, in the apparent uniformity of the plants in each row; and, secondly, in tiie wide variation between those in adjacent rows. By this means, one is enabled to discard all the progeny of those plants which fail in any character. Without progeny rows, it is impossible to elimin- ate these undesirable plants so thoroughly. To select for productiveness, plants which have givea a larger yield than their neighbours, without any evident advantage as to soil, space or fertilizer, should be chosen. The poorest part of the field is just as good for this selection as the best, except that, among the stunted plants on poor soil, the individual differences do not usually show so plainly as where the cotton plants have made a better growth. The cotton stalk which has ripened eight bolls, while the neigh- bouring stalks, with the same apparent opportunit}', ripened five, is as much to be selected for productivity as the one hav- ing forty bolls among plants bearing twenty-five. In making selections for greater length of lint, it is well to have a comb on which a 2|-inch scale, divided into sixteenths, is marked. The lint is combed out on the seeds, and enough is then pulled of}' to be measured on the scale. The lint should be of uniform length all over the seed. Sometimes the lint is shorter on the pointed end, which defect is important, as it makes more waste in the pro- cess of Please note that these image
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