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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



Ji li 31, 1915. 



GLEANINGS. 



TheSl Lucia Gazetu for Julj •">. 1915, publishes the 

 llfor an Ordinance ;istration, encourage- 



ment and a I tural Credit Soi iel ies in I hal 



Colony under the Raiffeisen system. 



According to the Mirror of Trinidad (June 28, 1915), 

 very <lr\ weather has been experienced in Tobago n 

 in man] places young corn cultivations h ive been . lot i . .\ i <1. 



era saj thai unless rain comes quickly, their crops will 

 be completely ruini 



Interesting observations appear in Modern Cuba for 

 May, concerning tropica] fruits in Florida. Speaking of 

 avoi "I" pears, it is mentioned that the Trapp variety is still 

 the only one thai is planted to any extent. The thick skinned 

 Guatemalan type is grown to a limited extent for the late 

 market. Mangoes are undergoing investigation. It now 

 appears that many of the best varieties of this fruit bear only 

 male or staminate flowers. 



Information has been received from the acting Commis- 

 sioner of the Vii a fsl inds to th I hal the onion 

 industry in Tortola is progressing favourably. To the 

 variou dui mg I nths of I h 



were shipped weigliing 2,399 Dt)., and providing 

 a pic lit aft irly £15. Although it i- realized 



thai this is only a small beginning, it i ' that with 



the proper neni the industry is eiving, 



;ei production may be effected nexi season. It should 

 be added thai this industry has been brou ire tie 



peasantry, who have realized its possibilities. 



Mention is madi in the lasl two issues of Trop 

 of the new tzi] by Mr. Woodroffe, entitled, The 



r Industry of the Amazon and Eow It- Supremacy can 



Vlaintained. We understand the 1 k touches on 



is other than rubbei oi considerable interest to the 



West Indies. The ' k \\ ill o 100 demi octai 



pages, with some sixty more for introduction, synopsis, index, 



etc., making about ; in all, as it will be illustrated by 



fort] eight plates on art paper. It will be printed on g I 



qualitj papei and published by Tropical Lift at 21s. uet. 



In the Barbados Official Ga etti for July 8 instant, 

 there is published a Regulation made by the General Board 

 of Health under the provisions of the Public Health Act, 

 L 908-9, prohibiting the landing in that Colony of horses, 

 mules, or asses arriving from the island of Barbuda unless 

 accompanied by a certificate signed by the person in charge oi 

 that island that such animals had not for three months 

 previous to embarkation been within an area infected with 

 Epizootic Lymphangitis, and that the fodder put on board 

 with such animals had been taken from an area free from 

 that disease. 



The following figures quoted by Mr. G. W. freeman, 

 Assistant Director of Agriculture, at a recent meeting of 

 the Board of Agriculture, Trinidad, give the result of recent 

 developments of the tobacco industry in Tobago: In 1912-13 

 the weight of leaf tobacco wis 1,842 Ik, valued at £92 2s.; 

 ;,, 1913-14 it ».i- 20,303 ft., valued at £1,263; and last 

 year 52,183 B>., valued it £3,262. Tobacco planting is said 

 to be very popular among the proprietors in Tobago. 



A note in the London Chamber ot Commerce .Journal 

 for June 1915, deals with ipecacuanha from Brazil. In the 

 year 1910, I2,368Ib. was exported which gradually rose to 

 75,07 8tt>. in 1914. This plant, which is well known in the 

 West [ndies contains in its root a valuable drug which has 

 Beveral uses in medicine. Ipecacuanha is a constituent of 

 Mine oi ipecacuanl i and of Dover's powder, and is now 



■ i in forms nt dysentery. 



Aci ording to thi Plant hanges are 



in contemplation as regards the extension oi the United 



re' Association of Southern India. It is pi 



to establish new rul I i off i tatioi md to 



employ ili' It is unlikelj . hi >v 



thai thi « ill be availabl cisting 



disturbed condil Ifait tcl 



The - 1 ontains 



im int' i 't|i hi 



The Trinidad Mirror of June 1 2 last, records the fact 

 that at the monthly meeting of the Agricultural Society held 

 on the 11th, it was reported by the Secretary that the 

 following Resolution approving of the holding of an Annual 

 show in I'ort-of Spain had been passed by a joint Committee 

 of the Board of Agriculture and the Agricultural Society: 

 'That in the opinion of this joint Committee it is 

 desirable that an Annual Show be held in Port-of-Spain 

 provided thai grants in aid to the extent of 1,000 dollars can 

 be obtained over and above the contribution of the 

 Agricultural Society, estimated at 500 dollars.' 



I luring the la.-t two year-, says the Louisiana Planter 

 for June 26, the production of sugar in the Argentine has 



greath exceeded the isumption, and were it not for the 



great demand of Greal Britain for sugar, the stocks of that 

 article in the Argentirie Republic would have assumed rather 



tomfortable dimensions. The 1913 crop of 227,000 tons 



left the stocli oi 95, i ton- at the beginning of the new one 



in. bine 1914. Thi- was also very large, producing no less 

 than 273,000 ton-. Apart from the quantitie 

 ahead\ sold to ] ii m, a further quantitj oi 



100,000 t"n- »ill be disposable withoul in the least h, 

 ing with the wants ol try. A- however the •• 



far inferior to the inland [nice in the Argentine, 

 tit- will no( be large on these international I 



tions. 



