

THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



November 6, 1915. 



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GLEANINGS. 



A useful table showing the proportion of ash and 



potash in i in the '/'■ 



n July 1!>15. It i- bat young 



red leaves d dry coco-nut husk are 



ably rich in potash, while / i in, the 



ind leaves oi n istituent of veg 

 mulch, are very poor in potash 



In the Louisiana Planter for October '_'. a discussion 



appears c :erning the amount of bone-black required for 



refining good quality plantation sugar. 



We learn from the Veterinary A' September 11, 



1915, that Mr. P. T. Saunders, M.R.C.V.S., formerly on the 



Ntatl'of this Department, after a year's probation, has been con- 

 tinned in rank as Lieutenant in the Army Service Veterinary 



' lorps. 



Previous to the war successful efforts had hern made 



to build up a market for Porto Etican fruit in France and 



England The restricted steamship facilities, however, have 



now restricted shipments particularly of grape fruit, i Modern 



September 19 1 5. ) 



We have received the Yearbook or' tin Royal Colonial 

 Institute for 1915, which is principally composed '4' a list of 

 .the Fellows, ol which there are many hundreds in number. 

 This publication also contains a useful list <>f the papers and 

 Journals published in the Colonies and Dominions. 



The way to improve silk reeling in Bengal is described 

 in Hullttin A'o. 44 of the Agricultural Research institute" Pusa 

 |i has 'cm Found that by the provision of two .-mall pulleys 

 tn the ordinary Bengal ty] i reeling machine, superior 



thread can lie obtained, while the cost of the extra apparatus 

 is merely nominal. 



According to results obtained at the Northumbei 



land County Agricultural Station, salt is not required f'H 

 fattening cattle i >] sheep fed indoors at that institution. It looks 



.as if the t u..,i ted in the experiments must have contained 

 a sufficient amount of salt to render unnecessary the addition 

 oy extra quantity. 



The production of sugar is perhaps the mosl important 

 industry of the Dominican Republic. It i- stated in Th* 

 /;■.,,/ oj Trwie Juurwil (September 16, 1915) thai from 

 the 1913-14 harvest 106,427,594 kilogs. (kilog. 221b.) of 

 sugar were manufactured, and ol th I 10,997,936 



kilogs. were kept for borne consumption. 



According to a statement in the Colonial Report for 

 191 1 on Sierra I. me, the lime cultivation at Java is now 

 two years old. The trees, which have grown exceedingly 

 well, are stated to compare very favourably with threi 

 old plants in the West indies. It is believed that, if 

 properly organiz i i iduction oi limes i nude 



a lucrative industry in Sierra Leoi 



Fourah Bay in Sierra Leone has the distinction of b 

 the only University College in West Africa. At the i nd ol 

 1914 there were names of twenty-five students on the 

 College Roll, while the number who matriculated during the 

 year was ten. This College was affiliated to the University 

 of Durham shortly after the affiliation of Codrington C 'liege, 

 Barbados, to the same University in 1875. 



in of bee-keepers in the tropics may be called 



to Bulletin X". 'fi ol th ultural Research Institute, 



■ i ! i ---iii, account 



I he modified form of st'at 



bives which 1. . . | . , ally useful with 



apiaries in India for Apis indica, the only Indian wild bee 



which it is 



The Canada West India Magazine, in its issue for 

 September 19, 1915, hastens to point out in connexion with 

 attempts to grow beat in England, that this source of sugar 

 is not likely to develop in Canada Neither the Canadian 

 climate nor the state of the Canadian labour market is 

 favourable to the production of sugar beet. The West 

 Indies should look to Canada to t greater and greater extent, 

 as a market for their sugars. 



A useful table appears in the Thirty-Fifth Re] 



Comptroller of ( 'iMmns of British < luiaca, showing the exports 

 of sugar from thai colony to England, Canada, and America, 



and elsewhere during the past thirty years. The record ship- 

 ment was made in 1903-4 when 135,949 tons were shipped 

 as against 77,821 in 1912. The reduced output for 1912 

 and 1913 was due to drought. There is a possibility that, 

 the 1915 crop, owing to a better season, will he a re -Mid 

 one. 



According cent research, the common domestic fly 



is a carrier of leprosy. After visiting the sores of patients, 

 the fly is believed to play an importont part in disemminating 

 the disease by depositing excrements on the mucous men; 

 or small abrasions of the skin of healthy people living 

 in the immediate vicinity of lepers. It is believed that the 

 house-fly is merely a mechanical transmitter, and that it is 



not in any sense a true interne -t like the mosquito 



is in regard I ilaria. 



A useful method tor loading bogs in a call or train is 

 described in the Journal of the Department oj Agricultart 

 of Victoria for August 1915. A crate without a floor is 

 used, which is placed over the hog or els,- th,- hog is let, 

 through the door at the cud. TiVO plants In to 12 feet long 

 are used, on ing i m lie end of the ix, and 



the ithcr on tic- ground. The crate i- then slid up tic 

 planks with the hog walking nd- As the 



touches hi- nosi . the animal will readily back up the 

 into the wagon. A rope is th I ovet the crate by 



means of which it is fastened down. 



