. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 38 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. January 29, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date December 28, 1915, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton:— Since our last report, the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton have been confined to odd bags of stained cotton at from lO^cZ. to 111*/, per B). Prices continue firm. CANONS OF THE COTTON PLANT IN EGYPT. The following general conclusions drawn by "Slv. W. Lawrence Ralls, , from his r
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 38 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. January 29, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date December 28, 1915, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton:— Since our last report, the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton have been confined to odd bags of stained cotton at from lO^cZ. to 111*/, per B). Prices continue firm. CANONS OF THE COTTON PLANT IN EGYPT. The following general conclusions drawn by "Slv. W. Lawrence Ralls, , from his research work on Egyptian cotton, have been extracted from an article in the Monthly Bulletin, of Agricultural Intelligence, Rome, for August 1915. We give explanatory observations in connexion with the niore technical terms employed, at its conclusion. The old-established conventional methods of cotton cultivation practised by the Egyptain native are the best possible for the given circumstances. Ry simple methods the crop can be 'sampled' at a number of Observation Stations, and Crop Records prepared in the form of Curves of Plant Development \ providing an exact and non-subjective Crop Reporting system, which is also capable of being used for Crop Forecasting on a scientific basis The deterioration of the yield of cotton per acre in Egypt from 1898 to 1911', was almost entirely due to the rise of the water-table, through the action and inaction both of individuals, and of the State. This eftect acts in part directly by decreasing the depth of soil available, but mainly by bringing the water-table into contact with the roots sooner, when it rises as a direct and indirect consequence of the rise of the Nile Flood. The deterioration of '(juality' within the same period, especially of the Afiti variety, has btcn caused mainly by increased impurity through admixture and natural si'lNNiNG. The best cotton obtained from pure strains, other things being e(|ual. The b
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