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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



July 11, 1908. 



WEST INDIAN COTTON ON THE LIVER- 

 POOL MARKET. 



Messrs. Wolstenhohne & Holland, of Liverpool, 

 write as follows, on June 22 last, in reference to the 

 sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton : — 



Since our last report holiday.s have rather interfered 

 •with tlie market. 



About 170 bales West Indian Sea Islands have been .sold 

 at fairly steady prices. The sales include about 50 bales 

 St. Croix, 20 Anguilla, and 30 St. Kitt's, at lihl tn 1.5/,./., 

 the remaining 70 bales being stains at Gld. to 9A'/. 



Spinners are only likely to buy from hand to mnuth 

 luitil more is known about the American Sea Island gruwing 

 crop. 



SEA ISLAND COTTON 

 In their report, dated June 



MARKET. 



V.i last, IMcssrs. 

 Henry W. Frost & Co., of Charleston, give the follow- 

 ing particulars in reference to the condition of the Sea 

 Island cotton market : — 



There were no sales during the jiast week, an<l the 

 vondition of the market remains unchanged. 



The unsold stock consists of 100 bales odd bags, of 

 ' fine ' to ' fully fine ' quality, held at 30c., 100 bales licau- 

 forts [cott<m {)roduced in the neighlMiurhoud of Beaufort \n 

 North Carolina] of ' fully fine ' quality, held at 30c., and the 

 balance planters' crop lots, held at 32c., aufl upwards. 



On June 20, Messrs. Frost write : — 



The sales this week consisted of 10 bales of ' e.xtra tine " 

 tiuality, on account of a Northern inill ; otherwise the market 

 remains quiet and unchanged. 



The unsold stock remains the same as hist week. 



In regard to the ccmiing crop, t\u' weather has been 

 favourable, and from all rei)orts it appears that the crop 

 is making good progress, and that the outlook just now 

 is promising. It must not be overlooked, however, that the 

 acreage in (ieorgia has been reduced very nnicli. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH COTTON IN 

 ST. KITT'S. 



Mr. F. R. Shepherd, Agricultural Superintendent 

 of St. Kittr's-Nevis, has forwarded the following notes 

 on various experiments <'arricd out with Sea Island 

 cotton in St. Kitt's during the season 1907-X : — 



In continuation of the work done in the previous throe 

 years, manurial and other exi)erinu'nts with cotton have lieen 

 carried out at La (Suerite during 1907-1^. 



The manurial i.'x]ierlments have been conducted on the 

 .same plots, and on similar lines, as in the three previous years, 

 according to the scheme published in the Agriru/tiiraf JVcirg, 

 Vol. Ill, p. 237. As in previous years these trials go to 

 prove that under the conditions existing at La Guerite, the 

 action of artificial or other manures has not been remunerative, 

 as the returns from the no-manure plot have been equal 

 to those from the manured plots, The succe.ssfvd growing 

 of cotton seems more dependent upon-good cultivation and 

 proper tilth than ujion the applicatinn of manure. 



The manurial experiments were carried out in trii)licate, 

 the cotton in the first .set of experiments being planted in 

 June ; in the second .series, it was planted in August, and in 

 the third series, in September. The influence of the time 

 of planting upon the yield of .seed-cotton obtained, is shown in 

 the following table. For purposes of compari.son the returns 

 for the two previous years are also included : — 



The conditions of soil cultivation, manuring, etc.. were 

 the same in each series, but the later-.sown cotton has proved 

 a failure in every case, and it is evident that the best return 

 may be expected from cotton planted in June. 



Exi)erimeiUs in i)lanting cotton at different di.stanees 

 were also continued on i-acre of land on which cotton ha« 

 been planted for four seasons without any kind of maiuu'e or 

 green dressing. The seed was planted at distances of 4x2 

 feet, 4 X .3 feet, ami 4x4 feet respectively. The plot in 

 which the jilants were 4x2 feet apart yielded at the rate of 

 1,434 It), of seed-cotton per acre; in the 4x3 feet plot, the 

 yield of seed-cotton was at the rate of 1,380 It)., and the 

 third plot (4x4 feet) gave a leturn ei|ual to 1,248 lb. of 

 seed-cotton i)er acre. 



Experiments to comiiare the eti'eet of [ilauting on the 

 <'ane bank with planting on the " centres," two plants at each 

 ' centre,' showed that thi' returns were the same in each 

 rase, viz., at the rate of 1,000 lb. of seed-cotton per acre. 



The total area under exiieriment at La Guerite was 6i 

 acres, and from this was shipped 1,8!^3 lb. of lint. The first 

 half of this lias been sold at Is. iki. per lb., while the remain- 

 ing portion is yet unsol 



