. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. lU THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. May 1, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme & Holland, of Liverpool, writiiif^ on April 7 last., r'eport as follows on the market conditions and prospects for West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since (lur last report a good business has been done in West Indian Sea Island cotton, and about 400 bales have been solil, including Barbados at 12A(/. to Hy., Nevis and Montserrat, ViU to md. ; St. , I2»'l. to 13|.i. : Antigua, I'AhL: St. CroiJi; 12(.'.: and Anguilla, 12^'/. to
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. lU THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. May 1, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme & Holland, of Liverpool, writiiif^ on April 7 last., r'eport as follows on the market conditions and prospects for West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since (lur last report a good business has been done in West Indian Sea Island cotton, and about 400 bales have been solil, including Barbados at 12A(/. to Hy., Nevis and Montserrat, ViU to md. ; St. , I2»'l. to 13|.i. : Antigua, I'AhL: St. CroiJi; 12(.'.: and Anguilla, 12^'/. to lid. : also .some miscellaneous stains at t>|(/. Prices are steady, but there is no prospect of any immediate improvement, as when prices are advanced, .spinners withdraw from the market. The Charleston and Savannah markets are rather (piieter, and ' fully fine ' Islands cotton is otlering on this market at 13irf. to lid. This competes with the West Indian product. In \iew of the fact tliat planters are finding present prices unprofitable, we should recommend any increased cultivation, until the accumulated crops of the last two years have been consumed. This remark only applies if th» Florida and Georgia crops, progress .satisfactorily. Any damage to these would alter the whole situation for all descriptions of Sea Island cotton. COTTON CULTIVATION. At a meetino; of the Antigua Agricultural and Commercial Society held on April 8 last, the Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture gave a brief address on the subject of cotton cultivation, with especial reference to the condition of affairs at Antigua. Dr. Watts reviewed the situation and went over the chief points in the history of the Sea Island cotton industry in the Lt.'cward Islands. This Wiis illustrated by means A diagram prepared for the occasion, which showed in a giai>hic way the rapid rise in the cotton exports ea('h season for some years after the start of the industry, and the sudden drop that of late
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