198 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Sepr., 1902. 
The selection of secretary resulted in the appointment of Mr. R. M. 
Cooper, and a strong agent was entrusted with the sale of citrus products in 
Victoria. Both these gentlemen are under substantial fidelity bonds. Circulars 
were issued ; and, considering the unpropitious season, a fair connection has 
been created. Up to date the association has handled 11,392 cases of oranges, 
and a small quantity of pines. 
Prices have been satisfactory to most consignors. The North Coast line 
fruit has been the best, the orchards there having been more favoured with a 
rainfall. Southern Queensland has suffered so much from want of rain that the 
yield is scarcely worth mentioning. The Maryborough crop is light, as also that 
in the Northern districts. Cairns, Bowen, and Rockhampton are joining hands 
with the association, so that next season its influence should make itself felt all 
over the citrus fruit districts in the State. 
We have also received a circular issued by the association, which gives more 
specific information to the grower who is seeking for safe way and means of 
disposing of his crop to the best advantage. 
Samoan Cotton. (?) 
We have received from Mr. Howard Newport, Instructor in Coffee Culture, 
a specimen of cotton which has come to him from Samoa, and, as it may 
possibly be sown by anyone obtaining seed, it is well to notify farmers that the 
cotton in question is a very poor variety. It is not a Samoan cotton, but is 
exactly similar in shortness of staple and poor seed to a kind of cotton grown 
in Carriacou, one of the Grenadine Islands between Grenada and St. Vincent, 
in the West Indies. Cotton-growing in the West Indies has been abandoned 
for thirty years, and it only survived in this small island (19 miles m 
circumference, with a population of 3,000). The proportion of seed to lint in 
the specimen sent is very large, the seed constituting 64°5 per cent. of the 
whole. It was quoted lately in the London market at 4% cents (about 23d.) 
per Ib. 
Experiments are now being carried on in cotton cultivation with good 
varieties in St. Lucia, Monserrat, and Antigua. 
Many years ago we received some of the same variety from the South 
Seas, and found that, when Uplands cotton was bringing from 1s. 3d. to 1s. 6d. 
per lb. in London, this was valued at about 7d. 
