

THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



•I'm 5, 1915. 



GLEANINGS. 



W< adei md tlia i onsiderable development is to 

 anticipated in the Dutch Island of St. Eustatius, which lies 

 a few miles to the north of St. Kitts. A large amount of 



[in mai hinery for the produi 

 cotton, and it i< said that the tint will be exported to thi 

 1 1 ch market, 



1,1 lis of 1914, ■■ fibre valued 



at about £1,362 was exported from Mauritius to Germany. 

 The exporl having now ceased, a new market is sought for 

 'I'i- produ ■ Mauritius aloe fibre is stated to be too fine to 

 be substitu I for sisal, but is said to be used for making 

 a certain grade oi mats and b 



The Demerara Daily Argosy invites attention to the 

 large amount ol enterprise that has beeD shown in regard to 

 coco-nuts in British Guiana. Remarkable progress lias also 

 been made in regard to rice, but we understand that for some 

 time there has been a difficulty in maintaining a uniform 

 grade owing to variation in the milling arrangements in 

 different pla< i 



The question of ensilage is deal! with in the Bhodesia 

 A Uural Journal for Februaty 1915. It is said that 



, the velvst bean and some oil crop such as sunflowers 

 mixed together make excellent ensilage, well balanced from 

 a nutritive standpoint. It is stated further that 1 acre of 

 maize, or maize and velvet beans weighs aboul 8 tons at the 



of cutting, and will produce about 7 tons of ensilage. 



The Colonial Journal for April 1015 makes mention oi 

 the use of Phosphogelose in the manufacture of sugar in 

 Brazil. This process consists in the addition of a mixture of 

 bicalcic phosphate and kieselghur to the juice previously 

 l with lime, theobject being to help clarification ad 

 i" obtain a scum of manurial value. The process is at 

 I", sent in use in a few »ugai factories in Bahia. 



The employment of essentia] nils a- antiseptics foi the 

 treatment of wounds is discussed in an article in 

 Perfumery and ! ' Oil Record for March 1915. 



le to the i -lilt for this pui pose it 



France of eau de cologne. It is stated furthet I hi 

 ilt~ have accrued from the use oi orianguni oil 

 nami d oi) Eucalyptus oil appears I i ry little 



t u; oi the growth of germs, 



Thi nt in Barbados towa i tion 



■ • iva flour] into ; , ,blic 



s which is ! »ard 



to cassava it [forts 



Agi ■ I 1915 rep the 



I tit 

 ' the import id corn n 'al ami whi 



Much at trillion is given in the Journal of Heredity 

 (Maj 1915) to the; value oi Zebu cattle. In regard to 

 Brazil, which is the country principally considered in two of 

 thi irticles, it is suggested that from a live stock [mint <>t 

 view the country should be divided into three zones: the first 

 two containing dairy cattle, an. 1 the third zone, situated in 

 terior, the Zebu. The articles are illustrated with 

 interesting pictures of pure and cross-bred zebu cattle. 



In the Philippine Agriculturist and Forester (February- 

 March 1915) an account is given of a collection of living 

 (yams) From the Philippine Islands. Six oi 

 species are described, and it is observed that early 

 maturity may be somewhat characteristic of the prickly stem 



"I plants, and may lie more prevalent in plants with shorl 



tubers than iii plant- with elongated tubers. It is remarked 

 that at least am. the] year's work is advisable before attempt 

 ing to make any positive statement- in this respect. 



Rubber from Dominica i- reported on in the Bulletin of 

 th* Imperial Institute (January to March 1915). Three 

 samples of Para rubber recently examined at the Imperial Insti 

 tute were very satisfactory in chemical composition, contain- 

 ing from 93"4 to 942 percent, of caoutchouc. In physical 

 properties, however, the rubber was not so good, being 

 soft and weak, and in this respect the specimens were a little 

 inferior to previous samples of Para rubber from Dominica 

 examined at the Imperial Institute two years ago. 



One of the most important contributions to the cane 

 versus English beet controversy, is a paper read by Mr. I!. X. 

 Darling before the Farmers' Club in London, which included 

 the results of his studies on the Continent under the 

 auspices of the National Sugar Beet Association. The paper 

 appears to establish the fact that beets can be grown with 

 profit in Great Britain, and the writer brings out the 

 interesting point that the net profit from an acre of beets is 

 much greater than that from an acre of the closely allied 

 crop- like mangels, turnips, orswedes. 



Two notice.- in the Gardeners' Chronich for March rj, 

 1915, refer to the Royal Agricultural Society's Show and the 

 Daily Mail Horticultural Exhibition to be held in England 



this year. In spite of the war, the first-mentioned societj 

 will meet as usual and the show will be opened at Notting 

 ham on dune 29. The Council has decided t.. include 

 a horticultural section, but it is not mentioned whether the 

 Tropics will be represented a- tln;\ were last year. The 

 Daily Mail Horticultural I m is being undertaken by 



that newspaper to stimulate the cultivation oi vegetables in 



England. Prizes will be offered amounting to I'l.noo 



It i- clearly proved in the Journal oj tin Board oj 

 Agriculture for April 1915, that tubercular fowls may be 



of infection as regards pigs. On examining 



the organ oi a total ol 118 tubercular pigs, it appeared that 



of tin iii contained bad. ria identical in 



with tubercular bacteria, twentj eight conta 

 u I ining four . ases the bacteria di 



in form from both types, but in two cases closely resembled the 

 avian type. < In the who! 

 slew I overwhelmini \ ol thi ca 



'eii, tuberculosis are of a local character, and almost 

 sively dui teria. 



