THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



I'iuiii \i:y 27, 1915. 



COTTON. 



WEST INDIAN COTTON. 



Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, 

 smite as follows, under date February 8, with reference 

 to bhe sales of Wesl [ndian Sea [sland cotton:— 



Since our last reporl Wesl Indian Sim [sland cotton has 

 been neglected, and the onrj sale reported has been 6 bales 

 St. Kitts at lod. 



The reporl of Messrs. Henry \Y. Frosl & Co., on 

 ■ Sea Island cotton in the Southern States, for the 

 ended February (i. is as follows: — 



There was a good <liin.mil for the offerings of odd bags 

 ■ in a In* of quotations, the buying being general, but prin- 

 cipally for the Northern and Southern Mills, who were 

 induced to buy Fine Islands, being relatively cheaper than 

 Gcorgias and Floridas, which had advanced Ic. to 2c. during 

 the week. This market being still relatively cheaper, the 

 outlook is thai the demand for the odd bags will continue. 



There has also been some more inquiry for the crop lots 

 for export, but as the offers were about 2c. below the virus 

 of the Factors, the only sale reported was 55 hairs Bijou 

 at 25c. 



c.i.f. .v.- 5 per cent. 



We quote, viz: 



Extra Fine 23c. 1 id.. 



Fully Fine 22c. - L3£d., 



20c. = 12|d. 

 fine off in colour 18c. = ll£d. „ ., „ „ 



This reporl shows thai the total exports of Sea 



Island cotton from bhe United States to Liver] I. 



Manchester, and Havre, up to February 6, 1915, were 

 50, 1,233, ami nil bales, respectively. 



BRITISH COTTON GROWING 



ASSOCIATION. 



A reporl on the meeting of the above Association 

 on January 5, 1915, has been received, containing 

 several inti resting items oncerning the sale of African 

 cotton. 



It was mentioned .it the meeting that the present 

 buying price of cotton in Lagos, which has been maintained 



for -' ■ years, is 1 |tf. per tb. of seed-cotton; the Association 



have paid in additiot tying commission of J</.perft. 



to the merchants, who buj the cotton chieffj in small parcels 

 ,,i a time, and are put to • ■ nsiderable expense in the upkeep 

 of the buying stations and iring the cotton. This i- equal 

 to about ''''.'/. per th for the lint cotton delivered in 

 Liverpool, and owing to the serious fall in the price ol cotton 

 it has been found neces \ bo reduce the buying price. 

 It is proposed that the buj i _ price at all stations along the 

 Lagos K ino Railwaj should be fixed al \d per B). of seed 



cotton, and the fJovernment Railwaj and the steamship 

 Company have been requested bo reduce the freight charges 

 by 25 pei 1 cent., and the merchants to reduce their buying 

 commission bj 2a percent. Under the circumstances, the 

 merchants have very generous!} agreed bo reduce bhe buying 

 commission bj 50 per cent and it was resolved that bhe 

 most grateful that lis ol the < 'ouncU be t. ndered bo them for 

 the broad-minded and national spirit thej have shown in 

 this connexion. The Government have also generously 

 agreed bo reduce the freight on the Lagos-Kano Railway by 

 25 per cent., and it is hoped that a reply will shortly be 

 >m tli' Steamship I ompany. h was mentioned 

 that, even if the Association's proposals were accepbed, it 

 would -till leave a loss on the cotton buying on the basis of 

 present prices, which would be borne by the Association. 



AMENDMENT OF THE COTTON TRAFFIC 



ORDINANCE, ST. KITTS-NEVIS. 



His II tr the acting Administrator, St. Kitts- Nevis, 



has forwarded for the information of this t iflice, a copy of an 

 Ordinance amending the St. Kitts Nevis Cotton Traffic 

 Ordinance, 1913, with regard to the marking ol bales oi 

 cotton ginned iii that Presidency. The following is 

 a summary of the provisions of the Act. 



In addition to the particulars of Section 24 of bhe 

 principal Ordinance, it is provided the Ginners' Record shall 

 show in clear and legible handwriting bhe name of bhe island 



where the cotton is grown, and if grown in different islands, 

 the names of such islands, and the weight of cotton grown in 



each. 



Upon the completion of the ginning and baling, the 

 Owner of bhe ginnery or person in charge shall cause each 

 hale to be marked in Legible letter- 'Grown in St. Kitts', 

 'Grown in Nevis', 'Grown in AnguihV, according to the 



island. All cotton not grown exclusively in the Presidency 



shall be marked 'Mixed Growth' or 'Foreign Growth', as tin- 

 case may be. 



The person in charge of a ginnery is under no obligation 

 to mark any hale until he is perfectly satisfied that the cotton 

 is really the growth of the place from which it is represented 

 to have come. < 



Any person representing any cotton to have been grown 



in any place other than the island win rein the cotton has 



actually been grown, and .my person iii ch irge of the ginnery 

 wilfully marking any bale of ginned cotton falsely, or failing 

 to mark each 1. ah' in accordance with the provision in the 

 third paragraph above, shall be guilty of an offence, and 

 liable to a penalty not exceeding £50. 



DEPARTMENT NEWS. 



Messrs. II A. Ballon, M.Sc, Entomologist, and 

 \Y. Xowill. D.I.C., Mycologist, on the staff of the 

 Imperial Department of Agriculture, left Barbados on 

 February 24 by the C.R.M.S. 'Chignecto', on an official 

 visil to Grenada in connexion with matters relating to 

 pests and diseases. They are expected to return to 

 Barbados i i aboul March lit. 



