. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 358 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. November 14, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme & Holhind, of Liverpool, write as follows, unikT ilate of ()cCol)cr 2(i, with refer- ence to the sales of West Indian Sea Island eotton :— Tlie Lancashire mills still continue closed, with the result that there is little or no business ])assing iu any description of cotton. However, aliout 50 liags of West Indian Sea Islands, comprising Anguilla and Harbados at 14(/., and St. Vincent at 17(/., have been re])orted for export.
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 358 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. November 14, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme & Holhind, of Liverpool, write as follows, unikT ilate of ()cCol)cr 2(i, with refer- ence to the sales of West Indian Sea Island eotton :— Tlie Lancashire mills still continue closed, with the result that there is little or no business ])assing iu any description of cotton. However, aliout 50 liags of West Indian Sea Islands, comprising Anguilla and Harbados at 14(/., and St. Vincent at 17(/., have been re])orted for export. The American holders in Charleston and Savannah are very eager sellers, but there is a general {'ensus of opinion that prices are near the bottom, and that as soon as the strike is over, better conditions will prevail. COTTON CROP IN THE SEA ISLANDS. Recent reports from Messrs. Henry W. Frost & Co., of Charleston, state that the cotton crop in the Sea Islands is being harvested early, but at ])resent the demand is only moderate, and the market is quiet. In Frost's report dated October 1 7, it was men- tioned that three planters' irops, kept fpvcr from last year's cotton crop, were sold for England an<l France at prices ranging fron! 32o. to 37c. So far as could be judged from the owever, the crop is being got in earlier. BRITISH COTTON GROWING ASSOCIATION. A meeting of the Council of the British Cottoi> Growing Association was held at Manchester early iit October, when some interesting in regard to the progress of cotton growing in Africa were laid before the members. It was re|)orted that a considerable ipiaiitity of cotton of superior quality is now condng forward from the British Fast Africa I'rotectorate. From Uganda and the districts adjoining the great'lakes good re[iorts were to hand, and it is anticipated that .(he yield this season will amount to several thousand bales of cotton, valued at h/. to 1^(/. per \b, over U[iland American of
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