THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



January 3, 1&14. 



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Vol.. XIII. SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1914. No. 305. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Report on Land Settlements, St. Vincent, 

 1912-13 



Published a.< a supplement to the St. Vincent 

 Gorernmciit Gazette (November 1--!, 1913), this report 

 contains several facts of interest. Of the newly 

 acquired lands by the Government, is Belair estate, 

 containing about 400 acres, which has been purchased 

 for sub-division and sale. Its situation about 3 miles 

 from Kingstown on the windward side should prove 

 ideal to meet the demand for land by the residents of 

 Calliaqua and district, to which it is quite near. 

 Surve}' operations will commence early this year. 



With the object of providing cheap and efficient 

 means to the allottees for manufacturing the arrowroot 

 grown on the holdings, leases were entered upoD, 

 giving the lessees the right to erect arrowroot works 

 on certain land settlement estates. 



The total revenue of the year for Crown Lands 

 and Land Settlement amounted to £1,10.5, and the 

 total expenditure for the same period came to £1 575. 

 There was a credit balance of some £189 in the hands 

 of the Treasurer, and a sum of £2,632 invested by the 

 Crown Agents for the Colonies on March 31, 191S. 

 Thus at that date the total Land Settlement Fund 

 amounted to £2,821, There was a gross arrearage of 

 £514. There were two forfeitures during the year but 

 no prosecutions. 



Contents of Present Issue. 



The editorial in this number reviews the market 

 prices for West Indian Produce which have ruled 

 during the past year. 



Under Cotton Notes, on page N, will be found 

 information dealing with the exports of West Indian 

 cotton during 1913, and other information concerning 

 the market for West Indian cotton. 



Under the caption Book Shelf on page 7, several 

 recent publications will be found reviewed. 



An article containing interesting information in 

 regard to co-operation is presented on page 9. 



InsectNotes, on page 10, deal, amongst other things, 

 Avith a newly discovered parasite on the coco-nut beetle. 



On page 11, under the heading Li\e Stock Notes, 

 will be found a suggestive article on the subject of 

 disease without symptoms. 



The latest position in the rubber industry is dealt 

 with on page 11. 



Under Students' Corner, on page 13, will be found 

 some of the questions set at the recent examination in 

 practical agriculture, conducted by the Imperial 

 Department. Further information as to other papers 

 set, together with the results of the examinations will 

 be given in the next issue of this journal. 



Notes on the Cacao Market. 



The prospects for the Trinidad and Venezuelan 

 crops are good and shipment.s should by now be in full 

 swing. In Grenada the outlook is equally favourable, 

 although the annual drought has made the crop late in 

 certain districts of the island. St. Lucia, or. the other 

 hand, complains of too much rain. 



According to the Gor'liav (November 21, 1913)— 

 the leading German paper on the cacao market — 

 supplies from other centres, namely the Gold Coast, 

 San Thome, and Bahia, have ahead} come into Ham- 

 burg in abnormally large quantities. During the firsfe 

 lialf oi November, 2,098 tons were received, compared 

 with 1,245 tons for the tvltole of November 1912, and 

 compared with 2,4->8 tons for the whole of November, 

 1911. 



The amount shipped to London during the tirsb 

 half of November l!tl3 was 4,371 bags, of which 2,700- 

 came from Havre, 500 from Lisbon and 50(» from 

 Hamburg. Lisbon received 16,600 bags during the 

 same period, of which no less than 14,294 bags came 

 from West Africa, 



It will be remembered that we pointed out some 

 time ago that the largest supplies of West African 

 cacao arrive between November and February inclusive. 

 List year the shipments to England during December 

 were over 1,000 tohs more than for the same month 

 in the previous year, and very much above the amounts 

 received during December in previous years. 



During the period October 21 to 28, New York 

 received l(i,-"J92 bags, of which 900 bags were shipped, 

 from Trinidad. 



