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THE AGEICUI/n'KAL NEWS 



Deo «B] i: 1 8. 1915. 



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GLEANINGS. 



A lettei has been received from Mr. ( '. Forbes Todd of 

 Trinidad, formerly of St. Kitts, containing the sad news of the 



death of Major Mi ntg nery, who was killed during October, 



in France. Major Montgommerj was the owner of Molineux 

 estate in St. Kitts, over which Mr. Todd was manager for 

 a number of _\ 



The Grenada Department oi Agriculture has recently 

 issued a pamphlet on the lime and its cultivation, of which 

 the object is to provide local planters with practical 

 knowledge concerning this crop. In certain districts in 

 Grenada where it is rather too dry f i ca< to the cultivation 

 of limes may be found a useful substitute. 



It appears from the Louisiana Planter for October 9, 

 that the reports that the sugarcane crop in the Southern 

 States was badly damaged by the Augnst hurricane had been 

 to a great measure disproved by later advices. Nor has 

 thr damage to factories been considerable. It is added that 

 the rain which accompanied the Storm was of great benefit to 

 the growing canes 



from a communication received from the Virgin Islands, 

 it is learnt that nearly 50ft>. of onion seed has been planted 

 out in the < lovernment nursery beds to provide seedlings for 

 the peasants. The prospects before onion cultivation in the 

 Virgin Islands are very promising. Recently an Onion 

 Growers' Association was established, similar to the ones in 

 Antigua and Montserrat. 



isting Grape Varieties in the Vinifera [legions of the 



States, is the titleof a bulky bulletin (No. 209) issued 



Testii 

 1 ri i ted. 



from the Bureau of Plant Industry by the United State. 



; in. nt of Agriculture. This shows that the best 



res tdts are obtained where the Scion and stock are congenial 



and both are suited to the conditions of the environ ut. 



The ideal vine is one having a most resistant root which is 



congenial to a top thai produces the best fruit abundantly. 



In the pn ie of the Agricultural Newt we referred 



to the duck as a mosquito In connexion with this, 



a note in the Review of Applied Entomology (Series B: 



1 " i A and Vi is of interest. When kept rather 



closely confined, there maj be -I -e attaching ii. 



' he Mil ! duck mosquito destroyi rs. Where they 



iiiined in yards of which the ground is rather moist, 



they often dig hole- sometimes to i depth oi Fr I to 6 



I holes Form admirable breeding places for 



ntlj hidden bj a partial or complete 

 , tng of gi i 



?ome inten nanurial nts with cott n 



ied in theAnnual Report of the experimental work on 

 the Sural Agricultural Station, Bombay, for the year 191 3 I I. 

 The o me is to find out a suitable substitu i 



id manure from the available indigenous n 



tits -how that farmyard manure which is 

 gettii d more costly, c in be very well i 

 such substances as rotted cactus, tankmud, town sweepings 

 and pudrette. Another experi nl concerns rotation crops 



with cotton. For this purpose ground nuts, pigeon peas and 

 Jowar [Andropogon sorghum, inswer suitably. 



Particulars are ;iven in th< M 1/ iga im of the 



Incorporated Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool for 

 September 1915, as to the cacao exported from the Gold 

 Coast in 1914 and 1915. During the period January to 

 December 1914, there wa s exported 52,793 ton 

 valued at £2,193,678. I Hiring the period January to June 

 1915, there was shipped 16,632 tons valued at £1,720,666. 

 It will be observed that the quantity shipped For only six 

 months during the present y. ,ir was nearly as great as' that 

 shipped during the whole of 1914, which points to a big 

 annual figure for 1915. 



A review appears in the Journal of the Roi/al Societv of 

 Arts of a book called The Spirit of the Soil', by < I. 1). Knox, 

 which is based upon PEsfessor W. B. Bottomley's work on 

 bacterized peat. It appears From this review that experts- 

 have now agreed that Professor Bottomley's methods are to 

 be taken seriously, and it is further added that, although a 

 popular writer, Mr. Knox has had a sound scientific training, 

 and in spite of its somewhat poetical title, the volume under 

 notice may be relied upon as 'an accurate exposition of 

 a new development in agriculture and horticulture, which 

 may have an important bearing on the national food 

 supply.' 



The Board or Trade Journal for October 14, 1915, 

 states that the number of bales of cotton imported 

 into the United Kingdom during the week ended 

 October 7 was 38,034 (including 173 bales British 

 West Indian, and 229 bales British West African), and 

 the number imported during the forty weeks ended 



October 7, was 4,106,012 (including 4,620 bales British 

 West Indian, 1,369 bales British West African, 17,379 bales 

 British East African, and 979 bales foreign East Al 

 The number of bales exported during the week en. led 

 October 7 was 1.979, and during the forty weeks 528,566. 



The development of primary education in lYrnaml 

 is exceedingly slow. The man of the coloured population 

 can neither read nor write. Free education is certainly 

 provided, and there are about L35 free schools with an 

 average attendance of about fifty pupils, but, as neither 



clothe not I ks are supplied, those who an too pooi to 



them stay away. Secondary education of a high order is 

 liuableat a very mot I ,,,. the 



more prosperous and enlightened families are often extremely 

 well informed and remarkably intelligent. The State of 

 Pernambuco Bpends nearly 500,000 milreis per annum on 



primary education. (Diplot >■ ■ lular Reportt 



No. •">, II -J — Annual Series.) 



