. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. lOi! THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Maech 29, 1913. "ifcfflgll'iiP^^ WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholine and Holland, of Liverpool, •write as follows, under date -March 10, with reference i)o the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— >Since our last report only a small business has been done in West Indian Sea Island cotton and the sales amount to about 100 bales, chiefly Barbados and Antigua 19d. to 20rf., TC^evis ISAd and a few Montserrat at \Sd- Prices remain Tery firm, particularly for the better grad
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. lOi! THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Maech 29, 1913. "ifcfflgll'iiP^^ WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholine and Holland, of Liverpool, •write as follows, under date -March 10, with reference i)o the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— >Since our last report only a small business has been done in West Indian Sea Island cotton and the sales amount to about 100 bales, chiefly Barbados and Antigua 19d. to 20rf., TC^evis ISAd and a few Montserrat at \Sd- Prices remain Tery firm, particularly for the better grades, but (jualiiies 3)elow I7d. are quite out of demand. The report of Messrs. Henry W. Frost & Co., on Sea Island cotton in the Southern States, for the week 'lending March 1, is as follows:— With the exception of 50 bales of stains which were sold at 16c . the sales this week consisted of various Planters' crop lots at from 28c, to 40c., Factors making concessions from *heir asking prices to dispose of them. There was some inquiry for the odd bags of off cotton, of which the stock largely consists, but at lower prices than Factors were willing t» accept. As previously advised, Factors are anxious to "dispose of their off cotton, and to do so would probably con- sent to yield 1 cent from our quotations, but not below this l)rice. We have, therefore, to renew last quotations, viz.:^ 28c. to 29c. = \&d. to 16W. , Jt 5 per cent. 26c. to 27c. !5c. 25c. 20c. 14|d. iol5}rf. £xtra Fine Fully Fine Tine 25r Extra Fine off 1 "in preparation/ TullyFine nff^ .^.^ tin preparation/ "^ Fine off in 1 ^ireparation j This report shows that the total exports of Sea Island cotton from the United States to Liverpool, ^Manchester and Havre, up to March 1, 1913, were 376 Jbales, 353 bales, and 3,562 bales, respectively. Uld. 12U IIW. BRITISH COTTON GROWING ASSOCIATION. The following account of a recent meeting of the •tCouncil of this Association has just been r
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