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THE AGRICULTURAL XEWS. 



AudusT L'i, 19U. 



A limited number of the 1914 edition of the 'West 

 Indies in Canada" is availalile at thi.s office for distribution 

 locally for educational purposes. In view of the fact that the 

 ]iulilication fully describes the products and exports from the 

 West Indies with particular reference to Canada, the booklet 

 should prove of value in the teaching of geogra)iliy in the 

 secondarv schools of the West Indies and Canada. 



GLEANINGS. 



A large amount of (government aid is being given to 

 the agricultural population in Hungary. Various courses and 

 lectures have been instituted, and the authorities have distri- 

 buted gratuitou.sly, or at cost price, a great number of appli- 

 ances for fruit growers, as well as over .")0(J,000 nursery fruit 

 trees at reduced prices. 



A useful publication for reference, and as a guide to 

 prices, is the Special Supplement to the Chamher of Com- 

 merce Journal, July 191-i, entitled 'Trade Products of the 

 British Empire.' It is a statistical account of the resources 

 of the British Empire as a supplier of foodstuffs and of raw 

 materials for British industries. 



An article on co-operative credit in the Tropical Aijri- 

 cuHurist for May 191-t deals with the problems that have to 

 be faced at the present time in Ceylon. The Oi-dinanco now 

 in force in this colony is framed on the Indian Act No. 2 of 

 1904, and the ordinance is stated to be such that it can hf 

 ■ applied to all kinds of trades and occupations. 



(Juinea grass has recently been introduced into the 

 Phili|jpine Islands, and according tfi the I'ldlipjnne Agricul- 

 tural Rfi'iew for May 1914, has been found to he -uperior 

 to the local grasses as green forage. In one yield i^xjieri- 

 luent, the rate of production in round ininibers was 7l' inetric 

 tons in 183 days from ,ii-heetare. 



It is reported that Sir .lohn Anderson, Under Secretary 

 of State for the Colonies, has made a recovery from his recent 

 accident met with when returning from one of the meetings 

 of the Rubber Growers" Association. Although the accident 

 necessitated an operation, and was accompanied liy complica- 

 tions, it is unilevstood that the recovery has been c^nuplete. 



The Experiment Station Record (Vol. XX.\, No. VI) 

 states that in the Memoirs of the Natural Academy of 

 Science XI (1913) is given in tabular form an analysis of the 

 geographical distribution of Agave in the West Indies, and 

 a discussion of the specific characters of the trunk, leaves, 

 flowers, fruit and bvdbils. A synopsis is followed by botanical 

 descriptions of eight groups including fifty-six species. 



A copy of the Eighth Announcement (1914-lo) of Mac- 

 "dona'd Agricultural College, ilcGill I'niversity, Quebec, has 

 been just received and should prove of interest in the West 

 Indies where many of the educational institutions have s(^nt 

 students to this college, ilacdonald College has a -tatt" of 

 nearly sixty lecturers and a number of students ainotmtinsj 

 on an average to about ")()<>. 



Mr. Roo.-,eveldt's iJra/.iban E.\|)cdition is refevn-d i.j in 

 Nature for June 25, as follows: 'there is no doubt tJiat the 

 expedition has accomplished a valuable piece of work, and it 

 has, in Mr. Rooseveldts own words, placed a river coinparalile 

 in size to the Elbe for the first time on the map. It is 

 probalily the most important achievement in river rxplovatioii 

 in Tropical South Anici'ica since ISSO. 



Reference is made in Nature for June 25, 1914, to the 

 latest five-yearly supplement of the Index Keicensis. Certain 

 introduced improvements are noted, and it is pointed out that 

 in view of the periodical appearance of sup})lements, the 

 question naturally arises as to the intercolation of the sujiple- 

 ments with the original work. Though the desiral)ility of 

 achieving this object is agreed upon, it is suggesteil that the 

 rmus of such a work .should hardly be expected to lie the 

 unaided task of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



The preliminary annouiicement of the Ninth Interna- 

 tional Congress of Applied Chemistry to be held during the 

 period July 26 to August 14, 1915, at St. Petenslnirg has just 

 been received. This contains a list of the tentative rules for 

 papers and puljlications, and the rules on sectional procedure. 

 Agricultural ('hemistry constitutes Section A'll. The Secre- 

 taries for this section are V. Leontietf, Zdanowka, .'^1-33; and 

 N. Leontevsky, Demonstrator of Agronomy at the Labora- 

 tory of the Univei-sity of St. Petersburg, V.O. lOth Line 29. 



The India Ruhljer Journal {(n- July 11, 1 914, contains 

 a l>rief accijunt of the exhibits from the British West Indie.s 

 at the recent rubber exhibition held in London. Briti.sh 

 Honduras, St. Vincent, Dominica and British Guiana com- 

 bined to make the excellent exhibit which represented the 

 British West Indies. Briti.sh Guiana naturally attracted 

 most attention and the greater part of the notice under 

 review contains information regarding rubber growing in this 

 colony which is familiar in a general way to most readers of 

 the A<iricultiirai News. 



In the Trade Products of the Ihitisli Empire, (mentioned 

 in another note on this ])age) reference is made to fish meal as 

 a supplementary f'joti for cattle, hogs and fowls. It is said to 

 be coming into more general use in Germany. In the first 

 test with this article it was found that this class of feed 

 increases the appetite and consequently the weight of the 

 animal. 0]jinion of investigatoi's seem to difler as to the 

 infltience of such feed on the taste of milk and butter, but it 

 is said that lard obtained from hogs fed with fish meal is 

 qxiite free from the odour of fish, and that no fishy taste is 



not = .-,Mble. 



