

THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



I ii roB] i 23, 1915. 



GLEANINGS. 



Amongst tin d lie colon) oi 



Si ychelles in 19] I wi ae \ Palm (Attalea 



i , and the Barbados cherrj {Malpighia 



In the Leeward I tte for September 23, 1915, 



a notification appears to the effect that until further orders 



my animals in Montserrat coming from the 



bited "ii account of the existence 



• : mthrax in the latter colony. 



According to the Internationa} Sugar Journal, the 



cultivation of sugar is being extended in all sorts of 



lected places including Portugese West Africa, where 



a company has recently cleared 3,200 acresfor cane. A 



mill capable of handling 7,000 tons of cane lias been erected. 



The Mirrlees Watson Company, Limited, have furnished 

 thi I ifficewith an illustrated catalogue describing the Ramsay 

 latent Maceration Scraper and Intermediate Carrier for 

 Multiple Crushing Mills. It is stated that the appliance is 

 now in use in a number of Hawaiian factories and is giving 

 mosl sat isfactory results. 



According to a reference in the Experiment Station 

 Rrcord (Vol. XXXIH, No. _) the sugar and potash contents 

 of beet follow closely the quantities of potash supplied with 

 little reference to the quantities of sodium that may be added 



hi ci It is believed, however, that the present 



odium increases the effectiveness of the potash. 



The influence of position in the ppd upon the weight of 



the be I is referred in tin Experiment Station 



Record (Vol. XXXII, No. 6). It is believed that the 



of ovules which develop into seeds increases 



from the base toward ;matic end of the pod. 



'II pod i'. i i maj fee fairly regular, but 



falls off toward the stigmatic end, where the 



H lower than it is a little farther down 



the pod. 



A note is made in the Experiment Station Record 

 (Vol. XXXII, No. 6) of a quarter of beef which was kept 



At the end of that time it showed 

 no indii ition of purification. The fibres of the meal on 



animation appi ixed anal, and the meat 



onsumed without any .sign.- ive disturl 



It i tat perhaps one i ison whj this meat 



laaint 1 not been 



in and out of which other bee) was 



[n ci with the i- of pedigree 



into I lemerara by the Departmi i of S tlture, 



the Da ions tl rows have 



Bi rksbire sows, v Tam worth 



SOWS \\ I 



r fortnight. It is stated that 



• have been receii be 1 ts than 



can be sup . irrange 



for tie system 

 of rotatio 



In an article entitled 'Musk ami Ambergris 1 in the 

 I'lrfiimii ii and Essential Oil R ora foi Julj 1915, it is 

 stated thai in the days of Louis SIV, everj table cot 

 'Pomade a la Frangipane' or 'Esprit de Frangipane'. During 



- Frangipane as a perfume li is come inl 

 although perfumers diffet is to i1 iration. h. 



the same article reference is made to » 'ol Brst visit to 



Antigua, where the air wa int with perfume'. Upon 



landing they found vast quantities of /" dba in full 



bloom, yielding what Itas often been i died 'the 

 perfume . 



In a lecture delivered by Mr. Et. 1). Anstead, M.A., to the 

 United Planters' Association of Southern India, some 

 interesting figures are given in regard to the potash content 

 of certain plants used as green dressings and as mulches. 

 Tephrosia purpurea contains 2 I pur cent, potash in its ash, 

 while Albizzia printings contain 22 - 8, Casuarina only 4'9 

 while Leucaena glauca, 20-1. It is interesting to note that 

 coco-nut husk contains as much as 17*0 per cent, of potash in 

 its ash, whereas the shell contains 26"5 per cent, and the 

 leaves only IT per cent. The lecture referred to is 

 published in the Planters' Chronicle for August 28, I'M"'. 



In a letter received from Messrs. Pickford a- Black 



Ltd., of Halifax, N. S., it is stated that the West India 

 Court at the recent Canadian National Exhibition was the 

 smallest for some yens past, but it was the general opinion 

 that Jamaica, the only participant, provided the most 

 attractive and representative exhibit it has had forth 

 four years. The Toronto World for September I. L 91 5, calls 

 attention to the Handbook distributed by the Imperial 

 Department of Agriculture for the West Indies entitled Tin 

 \\> t Indies in Canada. This, it is pointed out, contains 

 much information concerning the West Indian Islands and 

 their products. 



In the issue of this Journal for January I, L913, atten- 

 tion \\ii- called to the gradual disappearance of the black 

 witch or tick bird {Crotophaga ani) from certain islands in 

 the West Indies, ami also to its complete absence in others 

 Mr, A. .1. Brooks, Agricultural Superintendent, St. Lucia, 

 reoords the fact that a specimen oi i he bird lues pi i 

 taken up its abode in the Experiment S Reunion. 



This bird was exceedingly common in St, Lui fifteen 



ago, but has been practic fly exterminated by the 

 ( hving to their beneficial d 

 with the destruction of inset pests, an increase in the 

 number of these useful birds is to be encoura _■ 



