Vol. XIV. No. 345. 



THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 





into spirit and I'm ition.ll wa hum. I 



th.it in most < • 1 '" 111 



what one would expi iry '" 



young seeds. i ' 



killed, and there a staine* 



I 



however, linl on the - Is dja© i ■ ■ unded 



had be© ined, and a rot had set in which involved or 



sd to involve the whole coi a loculus. [n three 



in three others 

 it was wholly or in ;oid. No spores were seen in 



connexion with I 



An experiment carried on at the b 



,f December tends to suppoi itton staim 



h in theabsence ■ it doesnot amount to 



A plant was enclosed in a muslin-covered cagi 

 . trodui ed. At the time this was done the adjoin 

 i n g plant was examined and onlj one boll out of seventy 

 six was found to be damaged. A week later the cage was 

 removi I I lant bad ne bolls of 



: showed more or less staining. The nearest 



■ ■iv, I plant had at the s ime i eighty eight bolls of 



which thirteen were stained. B ■ i,t this time present 



in tlic plots. The experiment was then repeated, the num 

 bers obtaii follov plant at time of 



enclosure, eight bolls five; enclosed plant 



; of one "■ ! ^': neighbouring 



plant not covered, thirty-one out o irenty-seven. 



Unless i ends on infei tion 



with organisms of limited distribution,-it is obvious that 

 the same affection should exist in other stainer-ini 



Enquiries on this point le in tl arly part 



of the pi ■ led to its recognil ion in '!'■ ii I ola and 



imongst the complex of boll rots induced by tl 



climate of St. \ ocent. From the latter island a number 

 of full-sized green bolls, of sound appearance, were ob- 

 tained near the end of the crop season. All had stained 

 lint in one or 1 e loculi, and in every case the dis- 

 ced to be due to the ol fungi or 

 bacteria, the former being by far the more common. In the 

 greater number of cases spores were present, often in 

 numbers, which were identical in appearance with those found 

 in the Montserrat material of 1 '- ' I : : 11. In a few of the 

 St. Vincent specimens containing hyphae these sp 

 not found, and in others only bacteria in great abundance 

 were seen. (It is remarkable that in three or foui 

 mites or their developing eggs w< re present in the bolls.) The 



■ ration of the lint appeared in every case to be 



tssociated with proliferated tissue on the inner surfai I the 



wall of the boll, or on the radial divisions. The proli- 

 ferations are like those figured by Morrill, and consist of 

 rather loose parenchyma, the cells of which are dissociated 

 toward the surface of the mass. No hyphae were d 



,,r between the cells of the proliferated tissue. 



The general concl isi a< hed is that while I he staining 



may l,e initiated by matter issuing from punctures in the 



young seeds, it depends for il a with 



a foreign organism, and that while in the majority of cases 

 this ap] fie fungus, such infection is in some 



cases due to other Fungi, oi to 



There, for the i ent, the matter stand-, and while 



further invi is obviouslj necessary, the connexion of 



fection with tl i cotton stainers is so 



probable that measures for their ontrol assume a greater 



mportai ce than thi - rto realized to possess. 



W.N. 



WEST INDIAN PRODUCTS. 



DRUGS AND SPICES IN THE LONDON 

 MARKET. 



Mr. J. R. Jacl n LL.S warded the i 



port on the Loi d drug and spice inarke 



the nt h of May : 



1 ; he early pai i irly brisk, 



accompanied bj 



but later, the a, Kent of ne weather and* the oc 



the Whitsuntide holid 



realized for most of thi 



have also been satisfactory, most of the West India 



having realized good prices. 



Tlii> spice has maintained a firm 



■ ' ad »h Cochin 



for 30s. 



m mi: \ni> PIMENTO. 



For the former then- has been a ■ land. At. 



■ !i on the 1-tli West 



Indian were brought forward and 6 sold, fair palish and 

 reddish fetching 2?. 2d. per lb., fair reddish, partly I 

 Is. sd. to Is. 9rf., and broken Is. Id. to Is. Id.; 10 cases of 

 reddish Java sold at 2s. od. per tt>.; v cases dull red, 

 partly wormy Penang ■ ught iii at 2s. 3d. per Bb 



in the month, 53 oi West Indian were sold, good to 



line pale realizing 2s. 2d. to 2s. id., fair 2s. to 2s. 2d., and 

 ordinary Is. \0d. to Is. [id., while red fetched Is. 8rf. to 

 Is. 9d., and broken 8d. to Is. *>l. At auction on the li'th, 

 110 bags of pimento were offered at -\>l. per lb., and all 

 bought in. 



- IRS LPARIL] I 



At the drug auction on May L3, sarsaparilla was 

 in good supply: •">'.' bales of grej Jamaica ivei offered 

 and 25 sold, fair fetching from 2s. to '2s. Id. per tt>.; 

 native Jamaica was represented b< 8 bales, all of which 

 sold at [[\d. to Is. lrf. per lb. for dull pale to fair red; 

 15 ball's of Mexican were also id at 



'.>.',</. per ft>.: 19 bales of Honduras wer 

 12 bales of which were disposed of privat 



CUBIC ACID, LIME OIL, Mill: JUICE, KOLA, I \mii.u m 



Citrie aeid has remained very firm throughout the 

 mouth at 2s. 6d. per lb d al the close of the month it, 

 advanced to 2s. §\d. Pair West Indian distilled lime oil 

 was sold at the beginning of the month at Is. per I* 

 towards the close, inconsequence of the small arrival 

 price had advanced to ts. 9tf., and it was further stated that 



good West Indian distilled was not to 1 "■ obtained. 



juice also continues i i rce, 3s. 6rf. per gallon being the 



price at which any quantity would sell. At auction on the 



i packages oi W ■ Indian kola wei 

 2 sold at I'l'i. per lb. 



halves; on the 19th, i ban U of dried West Indian were 

 disposed of at 3d. pei lb. Al auction on the L3th, 20 

 packages of cashew nuts W ere ottered but nom 



■ m the I 9t h, 97 pad igi ■ ■ ■ ere i ffered and al 

 bought in at 10«. pei 



