

THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



t'EBEVAKV 13, 1915. 



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Vol. xiv. sattkhav. i-'i-:i;i:i"Ai:v im, h»15. No. 334. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Contents of Present Issue. 



The editorial in this number deals with the sugai 

 situation. An attempt is made to outline the probable 

 position during the coming war. and the action which 

 1 1 1 : > \ be taken in regard to sugar supplies in following 

 j 



Under the heading of Sugar Industry, on page 50, 



will be found tw tides one dealing with the ques- 



i oi British-grown beet, and the other describing 

 the advan ittendanl on the employment of 



i I sugai mills. 



Important expeiiments, from the point of view oi 

 tin estati are described in an article on page 52, which 

 - w iib the budding of cacao. 



The commercial handling of maize in Antigua, and 

 the consumption of this com in different forms 1>\ 

 swim . are dealt with in two articles on page 53 



Agricultural conditions in British East Africa 

 escribed under the heading ol Departmental 

 Reports, i □ page 55. 



An important note in connexion with recent 

 legislation against citrus canker "ill be found on this 

 i _ The subjed of this disease, from the admin- 

 istrative point of view, will be dealt with editorially 

 iii our next issue, 



United States Quarantine against Citrus 

 Canker. 



Mr. C. W. Martin, American Consul at Barbados, 

 has forwarded to this Office, the following information 

 relative to the Notice of Quarantine, No. I!>. 



The fact has been determined by the Secretary 

 ol Agriculture that a dangerous disease of citrus plants. 

 known as th< Citrus Canker, and also other citrus 

 diseases, new to. and not heretofore widely prevalent 

 or distributed within'and throughout, the United States, 

 exists in Europe, \sia, Africa, South America, North 

 America outside of the United States, and foreign 

 Oceanic countries and islands and are coming to the 

 United States with imported citrus nursery stock. 



An Act has been passed to prevenl the further 

 introduction into tfie United States,,)' citrus canker 

 and other citrus diseases, to forbid the importation into 

 :!i. United States of all citrus nurserj stock including 

 buds, scions and seeds, from the forei i ntries and 



localities named, and fr au\ other foreign locality or 



country. 



On and after January I, 1915, and until further 

 notice, bj virtue of the said Act, the importation from 

 all foreign localities and countries of citrus nurserj 

 stocl including b'ftds, scions and seeds, except for 

 experimental or scientific purposes bj the Department 

 of Agriculture, is prohibited. 



The term 'citrus' as used herein shall be under- 

 stood to include all plants belonging to the sub-family 

 or tribe < !itrat 



Attention "ill he given to citrus canker 

 editorially in 1 1 I number ol the Agricultural 



News. 



Effect of the Tropics on the Blood. 



The question ofthe influence of a tropical climate 

 upon the blood of children ol European descent is 

 dealt within the Annals of Tropical Medicini and 

 Parasitology (December l">. 1914), in a paper by 

 A. Breinl and II. Priestley, ol the Australian Institute 

 of Tropical Medicine. The investigation on which the 

 paper is based was carried out in Queensland, and 

 some very interesting results, possibly applicable in the 

 West Indies, were obtained. It is worth) of note that 

 pre\ ious investigatiolis on the same subject have led to 

 re or less contradictory results, but the present con- 

 clusions, being based'on a large number of observations, 

 1 1 1 . i \ be considered as fairlj well established. 



Tim conclusions are as follows. Careful blood 

 examinations performed on 574 school children in 

 Townsville, Queensland, of European descent, ofaj 

 between seven and fifteen years, of whom the majority 

 had been horn and had resided in Tropical Queensland 

 during their whole life, indicated ( I i that the average 



number of red 1>I I corpuscles is not diminished when 



compared with analogous figures for children born and 

 bred in a temperate climate: (2) that the average 



haemoglobin contenl of the bl lis normal: (.'It that 



th, number ol li ucocytes (white corpuscles) is slightly 



increased; (4) that the average bl I pressure does not 



B ho\i an) difference from that ofnormal children in 

 temperate climes 



