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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



NLu 



1915. 



GLEANINGS. 



It i to point out thai the well-known 



1 lie Tanti cayou (or I >andy 

 cayou) is Pipi >><". This tree is useful as 



a shade plant, and as a soun i ood. 



Vaccination of pigs against cholera forms thi jeci oi 



a useful Circular (Xo. 54) issued by the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station of the University ofWisconsin. A table 

 it the end, giving a summary of the results, shows that 

 :overies is effected amounting to 91*6 

 per cent. 



From an article which appears in the Journaloj the 

 Board of' Agriculturt for February 1915, dealing with the 

 onomic side of sugar beet production in Norfolk and 

 .Suffolk, it is clearly indicated that farmers whose land i.s 

 tdapted for beet have tu • fullj grown this crop for the 

 ( lantley Factory in Norfolk. 



During 1913-14 the Grenada Land Settlement Scheme 

 continued to make good progress. During this period the 

 blocks of land at Calivigny, Morne Rouge North, and Morne 

 Rouge Smith were added and offered for settlement. A table 

 shows that satisfactory progress has been made in regard to 

 their sale to 1 tie small holders. 



A copy has been received of a Handbook containing 

 a list ol the herbaceous plants and under shrubs of the < iold 

 Coast, which forms a companion volume to the 'List oi 

 shrubs and climbi i ed in the Agricultural News last 



year. The enumeration represents only a very small 

 proportion ol the whole Hora, but instantly 



light new material which will form a basis for 

 future systemai ic n i 



It is stated in the St. V'ii ent Government Gazelh for 

 February L8, 1915, that by authority of the Agricultural 

 Credit Society's Ordinance, L913,anew agricultural 

 society has been duly registered as required by the provisions 

 of the Ordinance. This Society is known as the Barrouallie 

 Agricultural < Iredit Society . 



Infi it has been rei ived that M r. A. II. Ritchie 



has been appointed to the post of Entomologist, Department 

 I.) Agriculture, Jamaica. Mr. Ritchie, who has studied at 

 Edinburgh Universitj as well as at the New York State 

 hiuii i ollege, has spent the last eighteen months 

 travelling on a scholarship from the Imperial Bureau oi 

 Enton ; London, 



Asa result of th /accinatory measures under- 



taken by the Government of British Guiana on the East 

 Coast "t that Colony, upwards of 700 animals havi 

 treated against anthrax during the past three weeks, and it 



ted in the I lemerara D i March 20, 



that net a single instance of deatl Ited ther 



I i i ii - 1, court 3 "i the Govcnm Pi inidad and 



St. Vincent, a suppl ned pendii 



upplj ordered by the Board from England. 



Int. Facts regarding i he sugai indust r\ "I Ba 



dos is contained ii Reports, Annual, No. 824 of 



1913-14. During the period 1910-13 inclusive, the sugar 

 crop amounted to the following (in tons of ugai 52,300, 

 l7,»ilo, 14,817, and 31,329 Mention is made ol the new 

 variety B.6450, the drought resisting qualities "I which were 



- il to in the previous yei port. This ca continues 



. good results, 



An estimate 'if the yield of crops in the United Sl 

 during 1914 appears in The fiuaid of Trade Journal for 

 February 11. 1915. In regard to m stated that this 



crop was not ted as in the two preceding 



years, and this is reflected in the production of 



2,672,804,000 bushels, which is only a moderate crop. Not- 

 withstanding this, however, the high prices prevailing have 

 made it the must valuable maize crop ever produced in the 

 United States. This information is of interest in i 

 with the extending area under Indian corn in the West Indies, 



In countries like Australia, which possess limited 

 resources as regards iron but large timber resources, the idea 



of using vi I piping as the substitute for metal piping has 



gained much support. The catalogue of the Australian W 1 



Pipe Co., Ltd., contains a very complete account of the sub- 

 ject, and is illustrated with a large number of photographs 

 showing the pipes being used for different purposes, the 

 principal one being for water-supply. It is pointed out that 



« I piping has many advantages over iron piping: the 



initial cost of the material is less, durability is greater (since 



>\ I saturated with water is indestructible), and there is 



little trouble in regard to the effeel of fi 



The present shortage in England of synthetic yellow dyes 

 has been temporarily met bj the increased use oi fustic, 

 a natural yellow dye stuff in the wood of a ti rhora 



tinctoria) which grows freelj in Jamaica and also in British 

 Honduras. The increased demand has greatlj raised the 

 price of fustic. Only a moderate amount of i wood 



was, us it happened, available when the demand fii 



alter the outbreak of war, but as a result of the action of the 



Imperial [nst il ute, the ( !"irriiiin'i[i ol .1 una offered 



to purchase fr the growers further supplies and carrj these 



at Government cost to Kingston, the port of shipi 

 Negotations are accordingly now pending for the pui 

 and shipment oi considerable quantities ol Jamaica fustic by 

 dyers in England. The Government of British Honduras is 



also taking action in this matter, and a further supply of tins 



wood may possibly be forthcoming from that Colony. 



