Vol. XIV. No. 355. 



THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



$89 



proportions. This high fibre < i mattei oi very 



greal ii e, as il tends to diminish the content of juice 



and of sugar, and inti i in the 



ite mill work. In lis, it fell that 



the erection, for work in 1911, and including the ci 

 thai year, oi a train of mills having fourteen roll 

 witli the use of much is justified. 



lill work is neasured by the fig 

 given in the col >l table, showing juice losl in 



megass per 100 of fibre, wheie il will be seen thai in I9jt)6 

 this amounted to 103 2, when the mill consisted of six rollers 

 only, but was reduced to 366 in 1913, when the II roller mill 

 was employed. 



The progress of the general efficiency oi the factory is 



red by the last column in this table, where there is 

 recorded the quantity of sugar produced for each 100 parts 

 of sugar in the canes, [twill be een thai this was 67 II in 

 the firs! year, when the mill train coi sisted of only six rollers, 

 and thai il reachi d 81 "72 in lull « ! en the mill train con 

 sisted of fourteen rollei , andahigh degree of efficiency was 

 reached in recovering sugar from the juice in the prod 

 manufacture. 1' "ill be seen thai the work is now of a high 

 •order, comparing favourably with that of factories of estab 

 lisheel repute in Java, Hawaii, and o h progressive countries. 

 Reference to the original paper is advised for those who 

 wish to obtain all the various details available. It may be 

 stati. 1 in conclusion that the factory has admirably fulfilled 

 the purpose for which it was erected : it has substituted for 

 an imperfect, wasteful muscovado industry, a well developed 

 and scientifically conducted one, wherein all the main and 

 important facts are accurately recorded, so that it maj be 

 seen what degree of efficiency is obtainable in these colonies, 

 and to whai extent it may be expected that such progress as 

 is indicated may prove remunerative. 



To establi h and bring to such a high degree oi efficiency 

 a modern sugar factory in a small island like Antigua, where 



was little in the way of previous experience to guide 

 those responsible, and where peculiar and unexpected diffi 

 cullies, both in connexion with the factory and arising from 

 the character of the canes to be manipulated, had to be 

 ovei ime, is a fact of which those responsible may be reas- 

 onably proud. 



The College of Agriculture, of the University of the 

 Philippines, the only large agricultural college to be found in 

 rln- tropics a( present, is in its sixth year, and has a student, 

 body of nearly 400. It o. of about I27hiectares 



on which every important crop in the Philippines is tinder 

 cultivation. It is urged that the pulilic should recognize this 

 college of agriculture is the Philippine Central Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, and permit it to develop close rela 

 tionships with the various branch stations of the islands. 

 It may he mentioned in connexion with this, that a parallel 

 combination ol official i perimental work and unofficial 

 educational effort is what is urgently required in the West 

 Indies. 



I : . i wh ^engaged in work pertaining to the meas 



Urement of the loss of water from mowing plants will peruse 



with much in article in the Journal dtural 



Research (Vol. Y, No. 3), entitled An Automatic Transpiration 

 Scale of Large Capacity for Use with Exposed Plants. Some 

 need ] i been fell for serviceable apparatus in dealing with 



transpiration oi ind similar tropical plants, and 



it w.uld appear that this paper with its referenci 



liration balanci nd I recording it ti timi m a may 



contain the u ! '■ "■ or ■' 



LIME CULTIVATION IN ST. LUCIA. 



The Agricultural Departra has just 



I a new leaflet (No. I) dealing with ide of 



ultivation, which contains special n< I 



a errors of 



written in a 



which it is intended. Wi: b g 1 I 



i devoted n id-breaks, a i grama 



are included to show ho Ol the wind. 



Tillage and drainagi with. Al the 



end of the leaflet Mr. A.J. Bi ks, the writer, pro 



a scries of 'donts': 



ili I lon'l [il mi linn i withoul wind breaks. 



(2) I lon'l plain lime too deeply. 



(3) I >on't plant limes too close toge! lier. 



i I) Don't plant a larger area than can be properly 

 cared for. 



(5) Don't carry lime plants aboul with their roofs 

 exposed to the sun and then complain that, 'they did 

 grow'. 



(6) Don't forget where you have planted limes, as 

 will need after attention. 



(7) I lon't allow suckers to develop. 



8) Don't neglecl to till the soil if you want quick 

 returns. 



(9) Don't ruin your cultivation by neglecting to fork 

 heavy soils. 



(10) Don't fork when the tree are bearing. 



(11) Don't neglect to drain thoroughly. 



(12) Don't run the drain Straight down the slope. 



(12) Don't forget that lime plants must be fed with an 

 abundance of manure if large annual crops are desired. 



Obituary Notices. The death is recorded in the 

 Tropical Agriculturist of Dr. II. II. Lock, M.A., Sc.D., late 

 Assistant Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon. 

 Dr. Lock had a highly successful career at the University of 

 Cambridge, and in Ceylon, before he became more closely 

 engaged in administrative work, carried out important botan- 

 ical investigations in connexion with Mendelism. Previous 

 to his death Dr. Lock was Inspector under the Board of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries, London, in which city he resided 

 after relinquishing his appointment in Ceylon in November 

 1912. 



In the Journal of tfo New York Botanical Garden* an 

 obituary notice appeared <Sn the late John Francis CowelL, 

 who was Director of the Buffalo Botanical Gardens for over 



twenty years. He made many trips to tropical \merica, the 

 first of which was to Jamaica. He traversed a considerable 

 part of that island, and made very extensive collections. 

 During the period from Augusl 29 to October 12, 1901, lie 

 visited the island of St. Lifts in company with Dr. N L. 

 Britton, and on this tour good general knowledge was 

 obtained of the flora of that island. The deceased b 

 also visited St. Crois and St. Martin, as well as the Isthmus 

 of Panama. His botanical explorations have also been con- 

 siderable in < 'nil i and Porto Rio i. 



We learn from the English Journal <>/ the Hoard of 

 -'tine for l lei iber 1915 I in normal 



times, exports over three fourths of her total proi 

 sulphai ted, is 



sulpha i moniaaswell as other fertilizi only ba 



exported under license. 



