. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 102 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Apeil 4, 1908. [•pool WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholine & Hulland, of I write as follows, under Hafce March 16, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since our report about -150 of AVest Indian Sea Island cotton have been sold, comprised of 170 St. Vincent, at ISd. to 20</. ; 120 Montserrat, 20 Nevis, <50 St. , 40 Ikrbados, 25 St. Kilt's, and l-S bales Anguilla, all at \7il. to 17^/. per Itj. SEA ISLAND COTTON MARKET. I
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 102 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Apeil 4, 1908. [•pool WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstenholine & Hulland, of I write as follows, under Hafce March 16, with reference to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— Since our report about -150 of AVest Indian Sea Island cotton have been sold, comprised of 170 St. Vincent, at ISd. to 20</. ; 120 Montserrat, 20 Nevis, <50 St. , 40 Ikrbados, 25 St. Kilt's, and l-S bales Anguilla, all at \7il. to 17^/. per Itj. SEA ISLAND COTTON MARKET. In their report, dated February 29 last, on the state of the Sea Island cotton market, Jlcssrs. Henry W. Frost & Co., of Charleston, write :— With the continued absence of demand, the market remains at a stand, and nominally unchanged. In order to ftfect sales, however, fact think, be willing to make consideiable concessions from their asking prices. On March 7, Messrs. Frost write :— With the continued alisence of demand for the better , and only a limited demand for tinged and ' off' cotton, the (piotations continue more or nominal. A .sale, however, has just been made, on private terms, of 200 bales tinged and 'off" cotton on account of the northern mills. There is also some emiuiry for the better grades, but at prices much below the present views of the factors. Present jirices are : Fidly fine to extra fine, 35c. to 40c.; fine, SOc; fully fine, but tinged, 27c.; fully fine to fine, but stained, 20c. to 24c. COTTON INDUSTRY IN MONTSERRAT. Some notes on the progress of tiie cotton industry of Montserrat appear in the 190(i-7 report on the Botanic Station and Experiment I'lols of the island. About 1,000 acres were untier cultivation with this erop in l!)0()-7, and 100,000 Ih. of lint were shipped, this giving an average of 160 lb. per acre. The bulk of the crop was grown from local seed, but 1 770 tt). of selected seed was import<Ml and sold iV
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