. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 102 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. April 3, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstciiliulme & Hi)lland, of Livei'pool, urite as follows, under date of March last, in reference to the sales of West Sea Island cotton :— During the past fortnight a good lias been <lone in West Indian Sea Island cotton, and jirices art' steady. The .sales include Anguilla and St. Croix at 12i,''/. and Vid ; Barbados, \2ld. and ]^ Virgin Islands, 13-/.; 8t. Kitt's and Nevis. KW. and [id.; and St. Vincent, li^d
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 102 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. April 3, WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstciiliulme & Hi)lland, of Livei'pool, urite as follows, under date of March last, in reference to the sales of West Sea Island cotton :— During the past fortnight a good lias been <lone in West Indian Sea Island cotton, and jirices art' steady. The .sales include Anguilla and St. Croix at 12i,''/. and Vid ; Barbados, \2ld. and ]^ Virgin Islands, 13-/.; 8t. Kitt's and Nevis. KW. and [id.; and St. Vincent, li^d. and \6hd. The total sales amount lo about .tCO bales, of whieli quite a half were St. Vincent. Although the Charleston stock is now reduced to about 1,000 bales, the large (juantities sold have simply been trans- ferred into spinners' hands for stocking purposes. We there- fore think that prices, although not likely to go lower, will l^robably not advance materially this Unless trade improves considerably, consumers can afford to be indifferent about the market for sume time to come. may not be confined only to the past season, but that, since the peasant proprietors have had an in the good results of careful methods of cultivation, they may be induced to continue these methods in the cominc; vcar. COTTON CULTIVATION BY PEASANT PROPRIETORS. Praiseworthy efforts are being made by the Nevis Agricultural and Commeicial Society to encourage the peasant holders of the island to cultivate their cotton plots according to the most approved methods. For this jmrpose, in the past a special com[)etition was arranged among the peasant proprietors, and money prizes of 30s., 26s. and resiiectively, were offered for the three best cultivated cotton plots. Over twenty entries were made in this cnmpetition, the prizes 'hich were awarded at the Agricultural Show held at Nevis on .January 28 last. The Agricultural Instructor at Nevis ('Mr. .John O.
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