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THE AGKICULTURAL NEWS. 



Februaky 22, 1908. 



WEST INDIAN COTTON. 



Messrs. Wolstenholme & Holland, of Liverpool, 

 write a.'; follows, under date of February 3, with refer- 

 ence to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton : — 



About 150 bales of West Indian Sea I.sland have been 

 sold since our last report. Prices are easier, and there is 

 very little emiuiry, the position of the fine tracle being 

 t.-xactly the reverse of what it was last year. The sales 

 inchide Barbados, St. Kitt's, and Nevis, 19A'/. to 2I'A, and 

 a few St. Vincent, 22-/. t(i 2;V7. 



SEA ISLAND COTTON MARKET. 



]\le.s.srs. Henry \V. Frost i^*: Co., of Charleston, 

 report as follows, on January 25 last, in regard to the 

 wales of Sea Island cotton during the week previous : — 



The market wa.s ([uict ihiring the week. There was 

 limited demand for fully fine quality cotton at 40c., and 

 stained to tinged cotton at 28c. to :32c. There is also .some 

 in(|uiry for jilanters' crop lots, but at prices below the views 

 of the factors, and only one small crop has been sold for 

 France on pirivate terms, Tlic following jjrices may be 

 quoted : fully fine to extra tine, 40c. ; tine, 3.5k. to 36c. ; 

 fine to fully fine, but tinged and stained, 28c. to 33c. 



On February 1, Messrs. Frost write: — 



The market has been very quiet throughout the 

 week, with very limited demand, resulting in the sale 

 of oidy one small crop. Factors are sliowing more 

 disposition to sell, and with orders in hand we think we 

 can buy at some concession, ilarkct quotations have 

 iindergone no change since last week. 



COTTON LEGISLATION IN ST. CROIX. 



An ordinance has lately Ijcen jiassed by the Colonial 

 Council of St. Croix by which an export duty, of -5 per cent, 

 (if the value, is levied on all cotton grown in, and exported 

 out of the colony, while a duty of 3 per cent, is imposed on 

 exported cotton seed grown in the colony. It is enacted 

 however that this duty must not exceed ()-2.J francs (os.) 

 per 100 lb. of cotton, or l.j Ijits (lid.) per 100 lb. of 

 cotton seed. 



On the other hand, the following articles for use in 

 connexion with the raising of cotton and its preparation for 

 market were, by the same Ordinance, exempted from import 

 duty, viz : — cotton seed for sowing, implements and stuffs for 

 use in disinfecting cotton seed and cotton ; implements and 

 machinery for use in sowing, cidtivating, harvesting, cleans- 

 ing and packing cotton and cotton seed, as well as ready-made 

 bags, etc., for purjioses of package of these products. Also, 

 fuel for use in connexion with cotton machinery will be 

 atlmitted free, on production of a certificate from the ginnery 

 concerned. 



COTTON GINNING IN ST. VINCENT. 



The following note is from the .S7. Vincent Times 

 of January 1() last: — 



(iinning operations at the Ci'utral Cotton factory are 

 now in full swing. We learn that seed-cotton is .so rapidly 

 handled there that any one giving notice could get their bale 

 of lint within an hour after delivery of the seed-cotton at the 

 factory. Cp to the 14th instant, 127,042 lb. of lint have 

 been ginned ; twice as nuicli as that giiuied for the correspond- 

 ing jjeriod last year. On the 19th ultimo, the factory made 

 a record by ginning f,779 lb. of lint on that day. It reHects 

 great cre<lit on the otticers concerned, that the daily work done 

 at the factory has exceeded the expectation of all, as with 

 only two more gins they arc nearly d.iubling last year's daily 

 output. 



COTTON GROWING IN CARRIACOU. 



The reports relating to the cotton area of Carriacou 

 for the season l!)0G-7 indicated that about 60 acres 

 were planted with the Sea Island variety, and about 

 2, .500 acres with JIarie Galante cotton. 



In reference to the Carriacou cotton area of the 

 present season, the Imperial Commissioner of Agri- 

 niilture recently received the following letter from 

 Mr. R. D. Anstead, Agricultural Superintendent of 

 Crenada, from which it shall be seen that the acreage 

 planted with Sea Island cotton shows an increase of 

 100 per cent, as compared with the season of 190U-7. 

 Mr. Anstead writes : — 



I have just received finm 

 an estimate of the area plant !■( 

 Sea Ishmd cotton 

 ^biric (ialante „ 



Writing on 

 field Smith sav^ 



he Commissioner of Carriacou 

 in cotton in that i.sland, viz., 

 120 acres. 

 ... 3,000 ., 

 this subject on .January G, Mr. Whit- 

 The growth of the iilants was greatly 

 retarded by the dry\veather experienced during October and 

 Novendier, and at one time 1 thought the crop would be an 

 utter failure. I lereniber, however, iirovcd a favourable month 

 on the whole, and there is a jnospeet now of fair average 

 results being obtained, although the crop will be late. The 

 cotton worm has not been troublesome this year. Indeed, 

 f)wing to the vast flocks of blackbirds and hordes of ground 

 lizards, insect life is not abundant in Carriacou. Dangerous 

 kinds of scale insects do exist here and there, but they show 

 no disposition to spread. 



