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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS 



August 19, 1911. 



WEST INDIAN COTTON. 



Messrs. Wolstenholme aiul Holland, of Liverpool, 

 write as follows, under date July 31, with reference 

 to the sales of West Indian Sea Island cotton : — 



About 200 bales of West Indian Sea I.slands have been 

 sold since our last icport at steady i)rices. The bulk of the 

 busines.s has been in qualities from ]'2iJ. to I7d.. with some 

 Stains at Hid. to 9irf. 



P.S. The Uitest telegrams from Egypt report that the 

 crop, including the new growth, Sakellarides, which was 

 expected to take the place of Georgia and Florida cotton, is 

 being damaged by worms. 



The repurt of IMessrs. Tlenr}- W. Frost & Co., on 

 Sea Island cotton in the Southern State.*, for the week 

 ending Jh')' -^' ^^ generally as follows: — 



The sales for the week were 15 l)a]es, portion of 

 a planter'.s crop, at 30c.; otherwise the market has remained 

 dull. Quotations are nominally unchanged. 



THE ISLAND COTTON SEASON 



... ..-aE UNITED STATES. 

 A npi'ii lia.s been received from !Mes.srs W. W. Gordon 

 it Co., of Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A., in which is summar- 

 ized the answers to a series of questions concerning the Sea 

 Isla: ' industry, sent by this firm on July 6 to various 



cnr in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. The 



foUowniy 1'. all account of the information in the report. 



f4KriT!r4T \ . A small increase in the area of Sea Island cotton 

 hr,« ' in some section.?, while in others there has been 



a lL Hy on account of the substitution of Upland 



cot; acreage ai)pears to be unchanged, or 



it 111, ::an that of last year. An increase of 



10 to 15 [icr cent, has taken place in the use of manures. 

 T't, ■., ■'■' i:. • ,.r r,.i)nrting, the weather had been favour- 

 ■11 cultivated, the plants were show- 

 II,- . I- . ,, .1 111 iii-L.i.i- and the crop was one to two weeks 

 It wa.s exjipctcd that, if the sea.son is normal, cotton 

 '' . ' "': rah freely about September 10 or 



early. 



will ' 

 1.5. 



lis are similar to those in Georgia, 

 e.\cc. lii .a .slight increase in the area plant- 



ed, and Uic plants teem to he more backward than in the 

 laRtincMitii^iir-d State. 



Tjie area of cotton in the Sea Islands 

 i. 25 per cent. Little or no increase 



the use of manures, and while die fields 

 iiid appear to be bearing healthy plants, 

 'ar through the dryness of the season. 

 iiiv ,r will be little cotton on the Charles- 



iias taken place 



u-._i,.: 



ton market before the middle of October. 



THE BRITISH COTTON GROWING 



ASSOCIATION. 



The Eighty-r.inth Meeting of the Council of the British 

 Cotton Growing As.=ociation was held at the Offices of the 

 As.sociation, 15, Cross Street, Manchester, on Tuesday, 

 July 4. In the ab.^ence of the President (the Eight Hon. 

 the Earl of Derby, 'G.C.V.O.), Mr. J. Arthur Hutton occu- 

 pied the Chair. The following <tescription of work in connex- 

 ion with cotton-growing in various parts of the Empire is 

 taken from an account cf the meeiing, furnished by the 

 Association. 



WEST AFRICA. It was reported that, as a result of the 

 decision to increase the buying price for cotton at all stations 

 along the Lfigos raihvay, there was now a greatly nicreased 

 demand for cotton .seed for planting purpose.', and it is anti- 

 cipated that tliere will be a coiisi(!erablo increai-e in the 

 acreage under cotton this .season. The Association have 

 undertaken the distribution of all cotton seed for planting 

 for the cinrcnt year, on belialf of the local Government. 



The total jiurchases of cotti.n in Lagos from the begin- 

 ning of the year amount to 4,981 bales, as compared with 

 4,901 bales for the same peiiod last year, and 10,620 for 



iyo9. 



Attention was called to the remarkable regularity in the 

 price which has been secured for Lagos cotton this season, 

 and whicli is due to the regularity of the quality, as a result 

 of careful selection of the seed, carried out during the last 

 few years by the Association at the ginneries. 



XVASALAND A letter has been received from the Director 

 of Agriculture, stating tliat during the past season there has 

 been an e.\ceptionally heavy rainfall and little sunshine, and 

 on the heavier soils cotton is later than it was Inst year. There 

 has been very little bacterial blight through the crop, but 

 a bad attack of Aphis. The native industry has made con- 

 siderable progress, and the natives are cultivating in many 

 instances as thoroughly as the white planters, and tlie appear- 

 ance of the crop .-shows that the natives are benefiting consi- 

 derably from the instructions which have been given them. 

 The e.xport of cotton for the financial j-ear 1910 11 amounted 

 to 4,342 bales of 400 lb. each, as compared with 2,147 bales 

 for 1909-10. It ^s estimated that there are about 20,000 

 acres under cotton this year, asacain?t 12,752 acres la.st j'ear; 

 whilst the acreage under na: aion is at least double 



what it was last year. 



p.HooEsiA. A sample ol cotton has been received from 

 the Association's jilantation at Kafue Bridge, and i~ f-An<;.i. ,-o,i 

 very desirable cotlion. The crop which is now 

 is a fairly good one, and, on the whole, the pi...-i.LCL^ nv 

 quite favourable. 



