. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 246 THE AGRICULTUEAL NEWS. Av( 1909. WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme & Holland of Liverpool ?write as follows under date, July 19, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— West Indian Sea Islands have lieen in moderate request since our last report. The amount to 400 to .^00 bales and comprise Anguilla, Montserrat, Barbados, St. Kitts, St. Croix, Antigua, Virgin Islands, Barbuda and Jamaica, chiefly at lot/, to 14id, with a few St. Vincent at ISrf. to 16rf. The market rema
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 246 THE AGRICULTUEAL NEWS. Av( 1909. WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholme & Holland of Liverpool ?write as follows under date, July 19, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— West Indian Sea Islands have lieen in moderate request since our last report. The amount to 400 to .^00 bales and comprise Anguilla, Montserrat, Barbados, St. Kitts, St. Croix, Antigua, Virgin Islands, Barbuda and Jamaica, chiefly at lot/, to 14id, with a few St. Vincent at ISrf. to 16rf. The market remains firm and prices in Charleston and Savannah are advancing, owing to the local American demand, but we understand that the American Sea Island crop is progressing favourably. The report of Messrs. Henry W. Fiost & Co., on Sea Island cotton in the Southern States, for the weeks ending July ?) and July 10, is as follows :— The unsold stock of Islands nov/ consists entirely of planters' crop lots, held here or on plantations, aggregating 4-^)7 bales. The factors are still refusing to sell any of them luider 30c., and the larger proportion are held under instruc- tions from the planters at 35c. The position in this market, up to July 10, thus .still remained unchancred. COTTON EXPORTS FROM TRINIDAD, GRENADA AND BRITISH GUIANA. The returns of the cotton which was grown in and exported from the colonies of Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada and British Guiana during the (juarter ended July 30, 1909, are to hand. From these it appears that the kinds of cotton exported from the two first- mentioned colonies were Sea Island and Marie Oalante. The amounts of these kinds exported from Trinidad ;ind Tobago were respectively 5 bales, weighing 3,125 lb., and 10 bales, weighing 4,000 lb.; no estimated value is given. In the case of Grenada the (piantities were, similarl}', 31 bales, weighing bi ( lb. having an value of £4(i9 19N,, and 'S27v bales weighintr 248, lb, and
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