. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 330 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. December 12, 1908-. WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstuiihuhne and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date of November 28, with refer- ence to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— liatlier more business l);is been done in West Indian Sea Islands since our last report, and prices are rather in buyeis favour. The sales, about bale-s, include 90 Antigua at 13'/. to IS^ri^., 130 , chiefly at 13irf. to 14(7., and 100 St. Vincent at lid. to lohd. The market for
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 330 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. December 12, 1908-. WEST INDIAN COTTON. Messrs. Wolstuiihuhne and Holland, of Liverpool, write as follows, under date of November 28, with refer- ence to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton :— liatlier more business l);is been done in West Indian Sea Islands since our last report, and prices are rather in buyeis favour. The sales, about bale-s, include 90 Antigua at 13'/. to IS^ri^., 130 , chiefly at 13irf. to 14(7., and 100 St. Vincent at lid. to lohd. The market for American Sea Islands ren:ains steady, but tilt re is a large quantity of old crop cotton still in Charleston unsold, and this has a depressing eti'oct on the market fur West Indian. ADDRESS ON COTTON GROWING AT ANTIGUA. At a mcetinc( of the Antigua Agricultural aiid Commercial Society, the Hoi\. E. Branch, Colonial Secretary of the Leeward Islands, gave an address on the subject of the hxte Lancashire Cotton Conference. In giving an account of the chief points discussed at the Conference, the speaker brought forward a consider- able iinio\uit of information that has already aiipeared in the Ai/rlcu/tiird/ Xtn's (see of Octobci- .'i last, p. 310, and October 17 last, page 3lM), and tlirrcfoic in the following summary only those point-- new to readers are touched upon : .Ml. Iliant'li pointed out that one result of the Conference liail been to bring a very satisfactory relationship between West Indian growers and Lancashire spinners. Both [jarties had come to recognize that their interests were largely identical, and it was clear that the Lancashire spinners were willing to go somewhat outside of the narrow laws of supply and demand to help West Indian planters to develop !i successful cotton-growing industry. {?"iguies were brought foiward at the Conference show- ing the (juantities and valvies of the different grades of Sea Island cotton
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