. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. AvRih 30, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date April 11, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since our last report, a good business has been done in West Indian Sea Island cotton, and the sales amount to probably about 600 bags, including Montserrat and Xevis 18d. to 2\d., St. Kitts 19(/. to 21ifZ., Anguilla 20(7. to 21(1., Barbuda 20d., St. Lucia 20i to 21 if/., St. Croix 20d. to 21'/., Barbad
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. AvRih 30, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date April 11, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since our last report, a good business has been done in West Indian Sea Island cotton, and the sales amount to probably about 600 bags, including Montserrat and Xevis 18d. to 2\d., St. Kitts 19(/. to 21ifZ., Anguilla 20(7. to 21(1., Barbuda 20d., St. Lucia 20i to 21 if/., St. Croix 20d. to 21'/., Barbados 2ld. to 22f/., St. Vincent 22rZ. to 24c/., with a few odd superior bags at to 27'/., and Stains of various qualities lie/, to 17'/. The high relative price obtained for Stains is entirely owing to the advance in Egyptian. Egyptian cotton is .so dear that the demand for the lower grades of Sea Lsland remains , whereas the finer , which are only used for special trades, are heavy of sale this season. We expect that the West Indian crop will be readily absorbed this season, as fast as it arrives. The report of Messrs. Henry W. Frosc & Co., on Sea Island cotton in the Southern States, for the week ending April 2, is as follows:— There has been a limited demand this week, resulting in sale of 94 bales, consisting of a crop lot, classing Extra Fine, and such odd bags as remained in stock, classing Fine to Extra Fine, the buying being for export. The unsold stock is now reduced to about 2-50 bales, consisting very largely of Planters' Crop lots, held at 40c., .50c. and 60c. There is also left on plantation, not yet ginned, about 100 bales, classing Fully Fine. COTTON IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES. In the JowrnaL d' Agriculture Tropicale, No. 104 (February 1910), an article appears by M. O. Labroy, entitled La Culture du Coton aux Antilles Britan- niques. This contains a good summary of the present state of the cotton industry in the West Indies, and part
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