. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 342 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. October 29, WEST INDIAN OOTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholtne and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date October 11, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— SiiK-e our last report, about 200 bales of AVest Indian Sea Islands have been sold, chieBy at about I8d. to IS^rf., ?with a few St. Vincent at 21rf. to 2id., and some Stains at llrf. to Ud. The American Sea Island market seems to have steadied for Floridas round about 16|rf. for the best, but the ma
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 342 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. October 29, WEST INDIAN OOTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholtne and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date October 11, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— SiiK-e our last report, about 200 bales of AVest Indian Sea Islands have been sold, chieBy at about I8d. to IS^rf., ?with a few St. Vincent at 21rf. to 2id., and some Stains at llrf. to Ud. The American Sea Island market seems to have steadied for Floridas round about 16|rf. for the best, but the market for Islands has not yet opened. The report of Messrs. Henry W. Frost & Co., on Sea Island cotton in the Southern States, for the week ending October 8, is as follows:— The receipts to date are only 92 bales, against 325 bales last year. The factors have not yet sampled their receipts, and do not propose doing so until the coming week. We are, therefore, unable as yet to give quotations. THE EGYPTIAN COTTON CROP, 1909. The following note by Mr. W. H. ("adman, , , dealing with cotton in Egypt during 1909, ai)pears in Dvplomcdic and Consular Reports, No. Annual Series:— The past year has been a notable one in the history of Egyptian agriculture. In spite of favourable climatic condi- tions and a plentiful supply of water,the cotton crop upon which the prosperity of Kgypt so largely depends, was most unsatis- factory both in yield and quality. Considerable advance has been made in investigating the causes of this depreciation. In order to obtain trustworthy data to assist the Commissions incjuiring into the matter, the Government gave instructions to the Survey Department to make a systematic survey of the total area planted with cotton during the past season. A mean value of 1,526,600 feddans was obtained for the area under cotton in 1909. {Collection of Statistics of Areas Planted in Cotton in I'.JOU.) There is no indication from the statisti
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