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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



OCTQBER 22, 1904. 



GLEANINGS. 



The bee keeper wlio extracts green, raw lioney for the 

 market is a foe no k^ss to be dreaded than the adulterator. 

 (.Jamaica 7'imes.) 



Mr. L. K. Miteliell announces that he will undertake to 

 gin and bale cotton for the sum of ft?, per K). of lint at his 

 cotton-ginning factory, St. George, Grenada. 



Of the exports of iladagascar, India rubber showed an 

 increase of £81,433 in 1903, and raffia fibre of £31,969. 

 The exports of bees'-wax and vanilla lv>th declined in value. 



Nitrate to the value of £9,480,-507 left the Kei>ublic of 

 Chili during the year 1902, which, compared with 1901, 

 give.s an increase of £.5G.5,99S. {Cunsular Report for 1902.) 



Complaints have again been made by Messrs. Pink 

 it iSons that some of the crates used for packing bananas at 

 Barbados are too large. 



With reference to the note in the A;/rini/tiira! A'ewf 

 (Vol. Ill, p. 296) stating that Hemingway's 'London Purple' 

 Co. wi.shed to purchase cocria-iurts, it is desirable to mention 

 that the address of the firm is 133, Front Street, New York. 



The position of Assistant Instructor in Agriculture in 

 British Guiana, particulars of which were given in the Affvi- 

 cultural News (Vol. Ill, p. 186), has been filled l\y the 

 appointment of !Mr. A. L. ^laiisfield. 



In the Conmhtr RejKirt on the trade of Vera Cruz, 

 ilexico, it is stated that growers of sisal hemp have become 

 enormously wealthy. ' Roughly speaking, what costs 81 to 

 produce sells for !?4.' 



At a meeting of the St. Vincent Cotton Growers' 

 A.ssociation, held on September 28, a letter was read from 

 Sir Daniel Mf>rris advising that bales should be more tightly 

 packed in order to save freight charges. 



It is .suggested by the Acting Suiierintendent of the 

 Royal JIail Steam Packet Co. that efforts be made to work 

 up a banana trade between Barbados and Paris. Mr. J. R. 

 Bovell announces that he will forward bananas by the R.M.S. 

 'Catalina,' if so desired by planters. 



W'b learn from the Mirror that a consignment of new 

 stock was recently received from Halifax for the Government 

 Stock Farm in Trinidad. The consignment consists of two 

 bulls (Hereford and Guernsey), two Shropshire rams, two 

 Tamworth boars, and two lots of poultry (Plymouth Rocks 

 and Wyandottes). 



The total output of sugar and molasses from Barbados 

 during 1904, according to Messrs. James A. Lynch A- Co.'s 

 rei'ort, amounted to -'jG,"?! tons of sugar and 4-5,683 

 puncheons of molasses, as against 38,179 tons of sugar and 

 30,233 puncheons r)f molasses in 1903. 



According to the Journal d'Ai/rindtitre Trojiica/e, all 

 the sisal hemp jjroduced is absorbed by manufacturers in the 

 United States, who [lay higher prices than are offered in 

 Europe. The latest quotations are 90 francs per 100 kilos., 

 or aliout £37 6s. 8d. per ton. 



A correspondent in the -Jamaica Glenner dealing with 

 the subject of the yield of coffee trees, states : 'My estimate 

 for a well-pruned, well-kept tree is an average of J lb- of 

 cured coffee per tree. This, with 1,200 trees to the acre, 

 would give 900 lb. of coffee, which should net 40.<i. per 

 100 lb. in London.' 



The Hon. T. H. Sharp, discussing with a representative 

 of the Jamaica Gleaner the question of the use of locally- 

 grown 2otton seed for planting, states that he has come to 

 the conclusion that it will not be necessary to continue 

 importing Sea Island seed provided care be taken tfi select 

 seed from the largest and best-shaped bolls. 



A planter writes from Dominica : ' You were kind 

 enough to supply me with a Ijushel of " woolly pyrol " seed 

 last Ajiril ; as these have grown so well and are likely to 

 jirove valualile as a green dressing in our cacao fields, 

 I shf>uld Ije glad if you could procure me a couple of bu.shels 

 of seed, or put me into communication with some party from 

 whom I could purchase it.' 



Mr. H. Milieu writes from the Botanic Station at 

 Tobago that a bunch of the ' apple ' banana, weighing 100 lb., 

 has recently been produced at the station. The [)lant, which 

 was obtained from the Grenada Botanic Station, received no 

 special attention. The hands are compact and resemble 

 those of the variety known as 'Silk fig.' The fruit Ls 

 smaller than the ' Gros Michel' but of good flavour. 



In Messrs. Gordon, Grant li: Co.'s market report for 

 October 5, it is stated that the exports of Trinidad cacao for 

 the year ended September 30 were 221,816 bags as compared 

 with 194,403 bags for the corresponding period in 1903, 

 showing an increase of 27,413 bags. It is also stated that 

 shipments during the year have been fairly well distributed 

 among the lainciiial markets. 



According to a bulletin (no. 28) recently issued by the 

 Bureau of Statistics of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 ■ The commercial Cotton Crop.s,' which gives the amounts of 

 cotton imported into Great Britain from all sources for 1895 

 to 1902, the imports from the British West Indies have been 

 as follows : 1895, 934 bales (of -500 lb.) ; 1896, 804 ; 1897, 

 474 ; 1898, 642 ; 1899, -568 ; 1900, 872 ; 1901, 700 ; 1902, 

 839. 



Arrangements have been made with the Syndics of the 

 Camliridge University Press to begin the issue of a Journal 

 of A^iricultural Science, under the editorship of Messrs. T. H. 

 Middieton, T. B. Wood, R. H. Biffen, and A. D. Hall, 

 in consultation with other gentlemen. It is proposed to issue 

 the Journal as matter accumulates, aiming at quarterly parts 

 of about 100 royal Svo. pages. The Journal will iiublish 

 only definitely scientific work in agricultural science. 



