. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 326 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. October 17, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme & Hollaml, of Liverpool, write as follows, on September 28 last, in reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— er tt). Freer receipts of the new crop may now be expected, and the market should open in the icuuse of ten days from date. COTTON GROWING IN JAMAICA. I jltlc has yet been <lonf in the way ( Sea Island cottim cultivation in .laniaica, althotigh recent efforts in that direction ap])ear more promisin
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 326 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. October 17, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme & Hollaml, of Liverpool, write as follows, on September 28 last, in reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— er tt). Freer receipts of the new crop may now be expected, and the market should open in the icuuse of ten days from date. COTTON GROWING IN JAMAICA. I jltlc has yet been <lonf in the way ( Sea Island cottim cultivation in .laniaica, althotigh recent efforts in that direction ap])ear more promising than those made .some few years ago. The arrangement anntiunced at the late Lanca- shire Ciitton Conference, l)y which the Elder l)empster Ship- ping Company undertake to shiji to Kngland free of charge all cotton grown in .Jamaica during the nc.\t twelve months .should certainly provi^ of material lieli) and encouragement to llir industry in tin' island. , A re|)ort has lately been pulilished of the of a trial cultivation in cotton growing made, during the past season, on one of Lord Dudley's estates in I'pper Clarendon, Jamaica. An area of 60 acres was planted with the croj>. and the work was placed un4,er the supervision of .Mr. Conrad Wiitson, an cxpcrienctMl planter from Monlserrat. liriefly stated, the crop consisted of 25,700 tt). of seed-cotton, yield ing 7,196 tt). of lint, and 8 tons of seed. The yield of lint was at the rale of 120 llj. per acre. In spite of this, the estimated returns amounted to£:?9I 16.'>-, while the estimated expenses amounted to £'2S0, leaving a credit balance of .£111 In this instance the cost of management was not included. Taking into a<-coinit the fact tliat the .season was an exceptionally dry one, the return, as a wluile, is not of an nnsatisfactoi'v character. THE HORSE CULTIVATOR FOR COTTON. The following article, which deals with the use of the horse cultivator in growing cotton, has been contributed by M
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