. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 262 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS August 19, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme aiul Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date July 31, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— About 200 bales of West Indian Sea have been sold since our last icport at steady i)rices. The bulk of the has been in qualities from ]'2iJ. to with some Stains at Hid. to 9irf. The Uitest telegrams from Egypt report that the crop, including the new growth, Sakellarides, whi
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 262 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS August 19, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme aiul Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date July 31, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— About 200 bales of West Indian Sea have been sold since our last icport at steady i)rices. The bulk of the has been in qualities from ]'2iJ. to with some Stains at Hid. to 9irf. The Uitest telegrams from Egypt report that the crop, including the new growth, Sakellarides, which was expected to take the place of Georgia and Florida cotton, is being damaged by worms. The repurt of IMessrs. Tlenr}- W. Frost & Co., on Sea Island cotton in the Southern State.*, for the week ending Jh')' -^' ^^ generally as follows:— The sales for the week were 15 l)a]es, portion of a planter'.s crop, at 30c.; otherwise the market has remained dull. Quotations are nominally unchanged. THE ISLAND COTTON SEASON ... ..-aE UNITED STATES. A npi'ii been received from ! W. W. Gordon it Co., of Savannah, Georgia, , in which is summar- ized the answers to a series of questions concerning the Sea Isla: ' industry, sent by this firm on July 6 to various cnr in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. The foUowniy 1'. all account of the information in the report. f4KriT!r4T \. A small increase in the area of Sea Island cotton hr,« ' in some , while in others there has been a lL Hy on account of the substitution of Upland cot; acreage ai)pears to be unchanged, or it 111, ::an that of last year. An increase of 10 to 15 [icr cent, has taken place in the use of manures. T't, ?., ?'?' i:. • ,.r r,.i)nrting, the weather had been favour- ?11 cultivated, the plants were show- II,- . I- . ,, .1 111 and the crop was one to two weeks It exjipctcd that, if the is normal, cotton '' . ' "': rah freely about September 10 or early. wil
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