. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 86 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Maeoh 18, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date February 27, witli reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since our last report, between two and three hundred bales of West Indian Sea Islands have been sold at easier prices. The sales are chierty St. Kitts, Xevis and Barbados at 18d. to ?20d. There is still great pressure to sell all Sea Island growths, with few buyers. The report of Messrs. Henry VV. Fro
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 86 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Maeoh 18, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date February 27, witli reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since our last report, between two and three hundred bales of West Indian Sea Islands have been sold at easier prices. The sales are chierty St. Kitts, Xevis and Barbados at 18d. to ?20d. There is still great pressure to sell all Sea Island growths, with few buyers. The report of Messrs. Henry VV. Frost & Co., on Sea Island cotton in the Southern States, for the week ending February , is as follows:— With sales of only 50 the market has remained quiet and unchanged throughout the week, and as in the absence of demand, Factors are continuing to hold for their previous prices, we have only to repeat our last quotations, viz:— Fine Islands at 33c.: Fully Fine „ 32c. = Fine „ 30c. = :18|c?. it 5 per cent. - AI :fw. ,, ,, ,, ,, ? ID^U. ,, ,, ,, ,, BRAZIL AS A COTTON-GROWING COUNTRY. In considering the sources of cotton supply outside the Southern States of America, the potentialities of Brazil are often overlooked and underestimated. Mr. H. Priestley, who has just returned from the cotton-growing districts of Brazil, directs attention to them. It will surprise many to be told, pn his authority, that there is a larger cotton-growing area in Brazil than in the United States, although the amount of cotton actually grown in Brazil is barely one-third the quant- ity grown in the United States. Millions of bales more could be grown in l?razil if the cotton users of Lancashire would only interest themselves in the matter. The (Jermansare quite alive to the possibilities of the country in the way of cotton- growing, and within the last four months a wealthy German syndicate has secured three large tracts oi land in three of the cotton-growing provin
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