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THE AGRICULTUKAL NEWS. 



June 30, 1917. 



COTTON. 



SEA ISLAND COTTON MARKET. 



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

 Sea Island cotton in the Southern States, for the 

 week ending June 2, 1917, is as follows:^ 



ISLANDS. The market is closed for the .season, as the 

 crop has all been marketed and sold. The new crop 

 (1917-18) will not come to market before October. 



GEOEGIAS AMD FLORIDAS. The receipts for the past 

 fortnight have been only 14 bales and the sales 133 bales, 

 made by an exporter who ;:ucceeded in placing from the 

 cotton they had on hand. The market has been veiy dull, 

 Factors unable to get any one interested in their small 

 offerings. They are, however, continuing to hold for previous 

 prices. We therefore repeat last (|Uotations. 



We quote :- 



GEOEGIAS AND FLOKIDAS. 



Extra Choice i Fancy 70c = 72^0. landed, including war risk. 

 Choice it Extra Choice 69c. = 7 l|c. ,, „ „ ,, 



Extra Fine & Choice 67c. = 69ic. „ „ ,, „ 



The exports from Savannah for the past fortnight were, 

 -51 bales to Southern Mills, 20 bales to Liverpool, and from 

 .Jacksonville .573 bales to Northern Mills. 



The .stock in Savannah is 1,.549 bales, of which Factors 

 hold only about .530 bales to 600 bales, composed almost 

 entirely of the lower grades. 



CROP ADVICES. The crop in all three of the State.", 

 although about two weeks backward, is reported to be doing 

 fairly well, but it is too early a.s yet to make estimates of 

 the final outturn. 



COTTON EXPORTS FROM THE 



WEST INDIES. 



The following s-hows the quantity and value of Sea 

 Island cotton exported from the West Indies during the 

 quarter ended March 31, 1917: — 



Colony. (Quantity. Value 



£. 



Barbados 

 St. Vincent 

 Antigua 

 Mont.serrat 

 St. Kitts 

 Nevis 

 Anguilla 

 Virgin Islands 



St). 



•5 3, .5 1.5 



68,-510 



16,.500 



17.3,936* 



47,622 



104,892 



35,965 



1,300 



.502,240 



6. 568 

 S,320 

 2,166 



21,900 

 5,9.53 



1.3,112 



4.496 



16 



6 2.. 541 



♦159,5<8ft). valued at 2j. 7*'^. per ft. ; 14,388 ft. stains, 

 valued at Is. 4(/. per tt . 



HURRICANE WARNINGS. 



The approach of the hurricane season makes it 

 desirable to publish the following information concern- 

 ing the nature, and the signs which indicate the 

 approach of these storms in the West Indies. 



It is urged that instruction in connexion with this 

 subject should be given in all secondary schools in the 

 Windward and Leeward Islands, and possibly in the 

 primary schools as well. One or two lessons given in 

 each year immediately before the hurricane season 

 should prove of real service. 



It is first de-sirable to point out the nature of a hurricane 

 and its path of transition. With this object the diagrams 

 below have- been reproduced, having first appeared in this 

 .Journal in connexion with an editorial on hurricanes (see 

 Agricultural Xcw^, Vol.VIII, p. 209). 



The lowest figure represents the storm during its passage 

 through the AVest Indian islands, before it takes a sweep 

 round to the north or west of Cuba, into the North Atlantic 

 (top figure). 



IN HIGH LATITUDES: 

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June and Oct.. l?.t. ZO't^i 2."'N 



July and Sept., lat. 27*to20'N ' 



Aiitriist.lat 30' to 33" l>r. 



IN LOW LATtTUDSl.S: 



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 a.bo\it 17 niilee per hour. 



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The motion of rotation and the motion of translation 

 itiay be well understood by spinning a top and giving it 

 a sounterclock rotation. It will be seen that while the rotation 

 niay be very rapid round the centre, the top itself may remain 

 in one spot. This rotation corresponds with the violent wind 

 of the hurricane. ]!y noting the direction in which any p irt 

 of the edge of the spinnini; top is moving in relation 



