. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 342 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. OCTOBEE 31, Liverpool, under date October 12, with reference WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenhol'me & Holland, of write as follows to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Owing to the strike, most of the mills ;ing ^ea Island cotton are , with the result that only about 120 lialfs of West Indian Sea Island cotton have been soM, and tliese chiefly for export. The sales imliide . and Antii;na at i3]r/., Barbados at 14'/., St. Vincent at \(<}//.,
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 342 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. OCTOBEE 31, Liverpool, under date October 12, with reference WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenhol'me & Holland, of write as follows to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Owing to the strike, most of the mills ;ing ^ea Island cotton are , with the result that only about 120 lialfs of West Indian Sea Island cotton have been soM, and tliese chiefly for export. The sales imliide . and Antii;na at i3]r/., Barbados at 14'/., St. Vincent at \(<}//., and a few Stains and Lintel's. ,i The American Sea Island cotton is connng forward, but until there is some ])})ect of a .settlement in the strike, spinners in tin untry arc not disposed to enter into operations. COTTON IN THE SEA. ISLANDS. Tlie Sea Island cotton rc|iOrts of W. W. Gordon & t'o., of Savannah, dated October 2 and 9 respec- tively, both speak of the favourable weather which prevails in the Sea Islands for gathering in the cotton crop, and pick- ing is stated to be in acti'v'e progress. The market conditions have been ci/<l<ij,aedia Jirilannim (1854 edition) mentioned that the cotton f)f finest quality ever placed on the English market was grown on (iolden (h-ove estate, Tobago, about the year 17i)0. Experiments in the cultivation of Sea Island cotton have been carried on in ,the island during the past few years under the Agricultural Department. Some estates have started trial , and a number of peasants planted cotton, on a small scale. Although the crop unfortunately did not receive the care and attention given to it in the other , .some of the cotton produced compared favourably with that elsewhere. "Eor the 1908 planting, the Agricultural Department imported 1,200 It), of the best cotton seed from Barbados, and will be .sold to gro^\'ci-s at cost ])rice. It was generally expected that a much larg
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