. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 326 THE AGllICULTUEAL KEWS. October 21, m^'mmhM COTTON CULTIVATION IN THE DUTCH WEST INDIAN COLONIES. In a report on cotton cultivation in Dutch colonies, published in the U. iS. J\fimtJdij Consular Reports for June, the following reference is made to the experiments being carried on in the West Indian Colonies of Holland :— As to the colonies of Surinam uml Curac^ao, the ]n-os- pects of a resumption of the cultivation of cotton are given in Bulletin No. 2 of the agricultural inspection district of the West
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 326 THE AGllICULTUEAL KEWS. October 21, m^'mmhM COTTON CULTIVATION IN THE DUTCH WEST INDIAN COLONIES. In a report on cotton cultivation in Dutch colonies, published in the U. iS. J\fimtJdij Consular Reports for June, the following reference is made to the experiments being carried on in the West Indian Colonies of Holland :— As to the colonies of Surinam uml Curac^ao, the ]n-os- pects of a resumption of the cultivation of cotton are given in Bulletin No. 2 of the agricultural inspection district of the West Indies. This bulletin shows that on the island of St. Eustatius experiments, which may be said to have been satisfactory, were made with various sorts of cotton. On St. Martin, with the assistance of the Government, iilantings have been made which showed immediately that the cultivation of cotton there was practicable. In 1904 the Government advanced to a private individual in St. Martin a sum of $600 for that purpose. No report has yet been received in regard to an experiment on a small scale in the district of Nickerie, in Surinam, in 1904. WEATHER CONDITIONS AND COTTON GROWING. Experience in cotton growing in the West Indies has shown that the yield is influenced more by rainfall than by the artificial manuring of the soil. It has, however, been pointed out that this ajiplies to lands that have borne but one or two crops of cotton, and that, in the of lands growing cotton continually, attention would have to be paid to the manurial requirements of the jdant. Considering, therefore, that so much depends upon the climatic conditions to which the cotton crop is subjected, it may be of interest to review briefly an important paper in the Yearhnok of the U. S Department of Agriculture for 1904 on the ' Relation of Weather Conditions to Growth and Develoj)- ment of Cotton.' It must, however, be cleaily understood, that the following notes contain the experience of growers
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