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THE AGRICULttiRAL NEWS. 



August 10, 



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COTTON EXPORTS FROM THE WEST 

 INDIES. 



The following figures show the quantity and estimated 

 value of Sea I.->land cotton exported from the West Indies 

 for the quarter ended June 30, 1918: — 



Cobny. Quantity in lb. Estimated value, 



Iksides- l&e above, there were also exported of Marie 

 Oa'ante seed-cotton from Grenada, 221,424 fii., and from 

 St. Vincent, 21,376 lb., of the estimated values of £21,885, 

 and £1,781, respectively. 



*The cotton shipped from Montserrat comprised 10,887 B). 

 of staiB.«, valued it \s. 6^/^ per ft,, ind 22,357 of lint, valued 

 at 3.V. 4«/. per B). 



SEA ISLAND COTTON MARKET. 



The Report of Messrs. Henry W. Frost & Co., on 

 Sea Island cotton in the Sotithern States, for the 

 week enfleil .Ttint- -i!*, 1918, is as follow.s: — 



isLA.sijs. Since our last report of June 1 we have had 

 a continuance of a very quiet market with limited clemand, 

 conse<iuently the sales have been small. Notwithstanding 

 this, the Factor* hold the unsold stock very firmly at last 

 quotations, consisiinj.; of about .S50 bales classing Fine to 

 Fully Fine, 1 .50 bales mon; or less stained. 



Shipments have been interfered with and delayed by 

 the appearance of German submarines along the coast. 



We quote viz: 



Fine to Fully Fine 72c. to7-'ic. = 74c. to 75c., c.i./. 



Fine to F'uUy Fine, stained, 50c. to 60c. = 52c. to C2c., c.i.f. 



liKonoiAS ANh t\x>Y.iu\f. Wc have to report a very 

 dull market during the month, with only some occasional 

 demand for limited fjuantity, ami delayed shipments. 



Although the Factors are sh'iwing more disposition to 

 sell at quotations, they remain unwilling to make conccsiions 

 to do 80. 



The Government is gradually forwardirig their cotton 

 purchased last winter to such mills as have been allotted 

 contracts for goods. 



The unsold stock is held at the following quotitions, 



viz : — 



Extra Choice to Fancy 73c. = 75c., c.i.f. 

 Average Extra Choice 72^c. = 74jc., „ 



The e.xports from Savannah since June 1 have been, to 

 1 iverpool 299 bales, to the Northern Mills, 2.38 bales, and 

 from Jacksonville to the Northern Mills, 2,618 bales. 



.4crk.vi;e. The advices from Carolina and Florida are 

 that about the same acreage has been planted, but in Georgia 

 there has been a decided decrease, especially in some .sections, 

 where the boll weevil did much damage this past season. 

 There is a general apprehension of much damage from the 

 weevil this year again, as they have appeared more generally 

 than last year, ronseqiiently crop estimates have a wide range 

 of 60,000 bales to 90,000 bales. 



THE HURRICANE SEASON. 



With the advent of the hurricane season, a few notes 

 in regard to the nature of storms and the signs which 

 herald their approach at this period of the year are here 

 reproduced from the Ai^ricii.'ti/ra/ A'tu's, Vol. VIII 

 No. 108. 



It is urged that instruction in connexion witli this 

 subject should be given in all secondary schools in the Wind- 

 ward and Leeward Islands, and possibly in the primary 

 schools as well. One or two lessons given in eacli yc.xr 

 immediately before the hurrioine season should prove of 

 real service. 



A hurricane is a storm in which there is a great rush of 

 air towards and around the centre, the whole mass movins; 

 slowly along. These storms originate near the equator, and 

 generally travel in a westerly or north-westerly direction in 

 the lower latitudes: recurve at about the latitude of the 

 H:ihamas, and take a north easterly direction across the 

 Atlantic. During the so called hurricane season, storms 

 originate at from 10 to 1 1 degrees north of the equator in 

 mid-ocean. 



It will be seen from what has been said, that Trinidad 

 and Grenada, and even some of the islands of the Grenadines, 

 are not at all likely to encounter one of these storms. 

 St Vincent and Barbados, however, and all the islands to 

 the north lie in the storm track. The origin of these storms 

 may be explained in the following manner. 



If a mass of ,\ir, practically at rest, becomes very highly 

 heated, a strong upward currtnt is induced, and this creates 

 a rush of air from all directions towards the puint at which 

 this upward current leaves the earth's surface. It was ilis. 

 covered by Ferrel, on purely mathematical grounds, that ou 

 account of the rotation of the larth on its axis, all moving 

 bodies to the north of the cijuator swerve slightly to the 

 right. This, it will be seen, would cause the rotating move- 

 ment of the cyclonic storm. The rotation is thus from right 

 to left, or in a dircctiim opposite to the movements of the 

 hands of the watch. South of the equator moving bodies 

 swerve to the left, and the rotation of the hurricane is from 

 left to right. 



In a paper by Mr. .Maxwell Hall, (Jovcrnment .Meteor- 

 nlogist in Jamaica, on West Indian hurricanes as observed 

 in .lamaica, published in the Mimtiily W't-atlicr Jui-.t-.o of 

 the Weather I'.ureau of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, l.tecember 1917, it is stated that cyclones 

 reijiiire vapour which they turn into rain, thereby developing 



