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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS 



June 10, 1911. 



WEST INDIAN COTTON. 



Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool, 

 write as follows, under date May 18, with reference 

 to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton : — 



Since our last report, there has been a fair OL(iuiry for 

 West Indian Sea Island cotton. The sales chiefly comprise 

 Barbados and St. Kilts, prices ranging from 16rf. tolS-/., 

 the latter only for very superior cotton. A fair quantity of 

 stains has been sold at 9d. 



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

 Sea Island cotton in the Southern States, for the week 

 ending May 20, is as follows: — 



There was a good demand this week, resulting in sales 

 of 2,800 bales, being composed chiefly of various grades of ofl" 

 cotton ranging in prices from 2-2k. to 25J.C., and several crop 

 lots at 30c. The market closes firm with Factors refusing to 

 go on to make further sales e.xcept at an advance, which has 

 not yet been paid, and therefore we renew our last 

 quotations, viz : — 



Extra Fine odtl bags = No Stock. 



Extra Fine crop lots o2c. to 34c. and upwards = 18^/. to I'Jil. 



c.i.f. & 5 per cent. 

 Fully Fine odd bags 28c. = 15^^ c.i.f. A 5 per cent. 

 Selected odd bags Fine 27c. to 28c. = 15-^^/. to lo'id. c.i.f. & 



5 per cent. 



9 72 in 19u9. The figures for Germany are 30'62 bales as 

 compared with 34'.51 bales last year and 40vS6 in the year 

 before. For the United States the figures are 5351 bales, 

 against 59'79 twelve months ago and G.5'7S in the year before. 

 The country which holds the largest stocks is Japan, the 

 figures being 1G6 79 bales, as comiiared with 12u*85 last year 

 and 131 77 bales in 1909. 



It says a great deal for the efficient working of the 

 Federation, and for the pitch of perfection to wliich the 

 system has been brought, that out of the estimated spinning 

 spindles of the world in work of 13.5,596,724, returns have 

 been secured from firms owning 122,226.091 spindles. In 

 Great Britain, returns have been sent in from the owners of 

 48,688,061 spindles, out of a total of 53,859,247 spindle.^. 

 There are .■!5,565,127 spindles engaged on American, East 

 Indian, and sundry cottons, whilst the spindles engaged on 

 Egyptian cotton number 13,122,934. It may be said that 

 the Federation has a member-ihip of twenty countries, which 

 practically comprise the whole cotton-spinning industry of 

 the world. (From. 7'he India-Kuhher Journal, April 1, 1911.) 



Off grades 



^;ic. to 25k. = 13(;. to Uld. 



c.i.f. it 5 per cent. 



THE WORLD'S COTTON STOCKS. 



Mr. Arno Schmidt, the Secretary of the Internatidnal 

 Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' 

 Associations, published on April 4 the statistics of the 

 stocks of cotton in spinners' hands throughout the world 

 on March I, 1911. The figures show tl at, compared with 

 those of twelve uionths ago, the stocks are smaller in practi- 

 cally every country. In Great Britain the total supplies 

 amount to 399,021 bales, as compared with 415,182 

 bales at the same time last year. The figures for the 

 United States are 1,525,000 bales, against 1,671,000 

 bales twelve months ago. The figures for all countries 

 are 4,060,710 bales, as compared with 4,166,688 bales 

 in 1910. The analysis of the statistics on the basis 

 of stocks in each country calculated per 1,000 spindles, 

 gives Great Britain as 8-20 bales, against 8 50 last year, and 



COTTON-GROWING IN BRAZIL. 



Cotton can be grown in the nine states of Brazil, fron: 

 Bahia to Maranham, in the north, where perhaps the finest 

 cottfin is grown. Cotton is also grown in the States of 

 MiTias Geraes and Sao I'aulo: in the latler State the crop 

 this year will be larger than it ha.s ever been. Sao Paulo 

 cotton is of shorter staiile than than that grown in the north 

 of ilra/.il, but that of Miiias Geraes is as good as tliat of 

 Pernambucn, The cotton produced in Sao I'aulo and Minas 

 Geraes is all consumeil by the local mills. Cotton has also 

 been grown as far south as Santa Catharina, but only in very 

 small ijuantities. 



In the 'sertao.s' (the ojien country right in the inter- 

 ior) of i'arahyba and Rio Grande do Xorte, a certain 

 (piality of wild cotton is grown, of particularly long staple, 

 which fetches a much higher price than the cotton giown in 

 the 'inatto' (the open country nearer the ports). 



Tlie zone in Brazil where cotton can be grown is far 

 larger than the cotton zone in the United States. With the 

 increased demands made on American cotton by American 

 manufacturers and the conseipienl limitation of tlie amount 

 for export from the United States, more attention is being 

 paid to cotton-growing in Brazil (sec Board of Trade JonniaL 

 of April 28, p. 194), and from the President's Message to 

 Congress, in which he refers to the subject, the Brazilian 



