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COMPARISON OF SACCHAROMETERS. 



Jamaica Brix 



Specific gravity. Saccharometer. Saccharometer. 



62° F. lbs. per barrel. lbs. per 100 lbs. 



THE BUD ROT OF THE COCONUT PALM IN 

 THE WEST INDIES. (') 



By DR. Erwin Smith, U. S. Department of Agriculture. (^) 

 General attention was first called to this disease by the reports 

 of army officers during the American occupation of Cuba. The 



(1) In the Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, Jamaica, March, 1905, 

 there is a Note on this soft tissue disease, and a remedy proposed which has al- 

 ready arrested the disease in several cases. When it has, hmever, gone too far, 

 the only plan is, as Dr. Smith suggests, to cut down the tree and burn the " cab- 

 bage." Editor. 



(2) From Science. 



