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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



July 20, 1912. 



WEST INDIAN COTTON. 



llessrs. Wolstenholine and Holland, of Liverpool, 

 write as follows, under d;ite Jnly 2, with reference 

 tio the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton : — 



There is an extremely limited demand for West Indian 

 Sea Island cotton and the sales comprise about 50 bales, 

 including a few Barbados at 20tl. and a few superfine 

 St. Vincent at 30ii. and Stains at 8id 



Spinners find difficulty in finding a market for their 

 finest qualities of yarn, such as is made from West Indian, 

 and they are therefore turning their machinery on to 

 Sakellarides cotton and making a cheaper class of yarn in 

 order to keep their machinery going. 



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

 'Sea Island cotton in the Southern States, for the week 

 ending June 29, is as fallows: — 



During the past fortnight there has been a very limited 

 demand, resulting in sales of only 21 bales Fully Fine to 

 Extra Fine for export on private terms. The Factors are 

 anxious to dispose of some of the Crop Lots, of which the 

 unsold stock largely consists, and are willing to make some 

 concessions in price, but the spinners do not seem interested 

 even at the decline quoted. We renew our quotations, which 

 in the absence of demand are only nominal: — 



We quote, viz: — 



Extra Fine 30c. to 32c. = 16f(f. to ll^d. c.i.f., & 5 per cent. 

 Fully Fine 28c. 

 Fine 26c. 



Fully Fine to Extra Fine,) 

 off in preparation / 



= 15|d. 

 = Ufrf. 



2.5c. = l-l|<7. 



At the one hundredth meeting of the Council of the 

 British Cotton Growing Association, held on June 11, it 

 was stated that the purchases of cotton in Lagos to the 

 end of ilay amounted to 7,637 bales, as compared with 

 4,624 bales for the same period last year, and 4,327 bales 

 for 1910; it was suggested that the increase is largely due to 

 the action of the Association in increasing the buying price 

 of seed-cotton, last year, and the satisfactory results have 

 led to the decision to guarantee the minimum buying price 

 for the coming season. 



In consequence of the continued unsuccessful results with 

 cotton-growing in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 

 the Colonial ( )ffice has informed the Governor that the Asso- 

 ciation does not consider it worth while to continue the work, 

 and has asked him for an immediate report on the subject. 

 As regards LTganda, cotton was still being bought in large 

 quantities, and a record .shipment of 2,900 bales of cotton 

 and 750 tons of cotton seed has been consigned recently from 

 Mombasa by one steamer. 



THE RUBBER OUTPUT OF MALAYA. 



The following information is taken from an article 

 by an authoritative correspondent (Mr. C. C. Mallet) in 

 the Straits Times for March 21. The statistics are 

 .stated to have been compiled from details supplied by 

 the Government surveys, by the Planters' AssociatioQ 

 of Malaya, as well as those obtained frotn other snvtrces. 

 The list of the estimated plantings in the Malay 

 Peninsula is as follows: — 



The estimated average yields per acre for all Malaya, 

 from acreages of different ages, is assumed to approximate 

 to the following: — 



Older trees will not be considered as yielding more than 

 this, as most of them are either cut to pieces by early experi- 

 ments in tapping, or else being rested from recent over- 

 tapping. 



On this basis, the output for Malaya for 1911 may be 

 estimated as follows: — 



215,000 



30,162,000 



