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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



Makch 5, 1910. 



GLEANINGS. 



On aerount of unfavourable weather conditions in C'uha, 

 it is estimated that the sugar crop will be between i,4(.)0,000 

 tons and 1,600,000 tons; thus the output will not exceed that 

 of the previous season. 



An estimate of the Egyptian cotton crop for the season 

 1909-10 gives it as about 541 million pounds, from 1,600,000 

 acres, valued at £"2"2, 000,000. In the preceding season, the 

 similar figures were, approximately, 67S million pounds, 

 1,600,000 acres and £20,000,000. 



Messrs. C. J. Dams it Co., of 121 Newgate Street, 

 London, E.G., have recently brought out glass cups for 

 rubber collection. These are of different registered patterns 

 and sizes, in white and dark green glass, and are adapted for 

 collecting either at the base of the tree, or on the trunk. 



The number of bales nf cotton imported into the United 

 Kingdom during the fifty-two weeks ended December 30, 

 1909, was 4,200,742. This included 6,3.58 bales of British 

 West Indian, 12,715 bales of British West African, 11,702 

 bales of British East African, and 326 bales of Foreign East 

 African, cotton. (Board oj Trach Joiunal, January 6, 1910.) 



According to the Manc/nsfo- Courier the quantities of 

 West Indian bananas sent during 1909 to .Manchester, 

 Bristol and Southampton, were 1,937,548 bunches, 1,935,001 

 bunches, and 122,231 bunches, respectivelj*. Of Canary 

 bananas, during the same period, Liverpool received 1,715,000 

 bunches, and London 1, 441, '.)36 bunches. 



At the ceremonies which took place in connexion with the 

 celebration, at Bray, of Arbor Day in Ireland, on November 

 6 last, his Excellency Lord Aberdeen laid special stress on 

 the need for more extensive tree-growing in Ireland, and 

 insisted on the advantages to be gained from the planting of 

 both ornamental and economic trees. 



An advance prospectus has been received of the Man- 

 chester Industrial Exhibition, which is to be held in the 

 Manchester Exhibition Buildings from May 12, 1910, to 

 June 25, 1910, inclusive. Inquiries concerning this should 

 be made to: The Organizers, The International Trade 

 Exhibitions, Ltd., Broad Street House, London, E.G. 



The increase in the home consumption of dairy products 

 in Canada is beginning to cause a lessening in the quantity 

 of these that is exported. This is .shown by the fact that the 

 values of such exports in 1908 was £3,955,696, while in 1909 

 it was £3,721,199. In the former year, as compared with 

 1907, there was a decline of £4S4,299, and with 190G of 

 £1,69-5,267, in the value. 



Accoiding to the Wtst Indin Coiiu/iittce Circular, at the 

 Colonial Fruit Show recently held in London, the campaign 

 for popularizing limes, initiated by the Dominica Permanent 

 Exhibition Committee, was furthered by the presentation, to 

 each visitor, of samples of the fruit in bags on which the 

 words Dominica Limes appeared conspicuously in bold letters, 

 a unique advertisement of the product being thus obtained. 



It is stated that there are very good prospects for 

 a cotton industry in the Soudan; but that it has not been deve- 

 loped for lack of means of transport. Schemes are on foot for 

 the removal of this difficulty: these consist of the actual con- 

 struction of a short line from Khartoum toward El Obeid, 

 and the proposed making of a railwaj- between Khartoum and 

 Massowah. Both of these will open up a very fertile country. 



A Committee, called the Jamaica Standing Committee, 

 has just been formed for the purpose of reporting to the West 

 India Committee on Jamaican affairs. It includes Mr. E. A. 

 de Pass (Chairman), Mr. C. A. Campbell, Mr. G. Gurney, 

 Mr. H. Crum Ewing, ^Ir. W. Fawcett, Mr. William Gillespie, 

 Mr. X. Malcolmson, Mr. G. Moody-Stuart, Mr. H. A Trotter, 

 and Mr. Algernon E. Aspinall (Secretary), with power to add 

 to its number. 



At a meeting of the Dominica Agricultural and Com- 

 mercial .Societ}', held on December .'iO, 1909, it was resolved 

 that, in all documents issued in future by the Societ}', the 

 fruit of the lime tree be termed Limes; the oil made by dis- 

 tillation be termed Essential Oil of Limes; the oil made by the 

 ecuelle process be termed Otto of Limes; and further that the 

 Society u.>e every effort to get this improved nomenclature 

 generally adopted. 



The India-Rubher World gives information concerning 

 Euphorhiix I'irtifliifi, a rubber shrub discovered by the 

 botanical section of the Chili National Museum. It is stated 

 that the claim is made that a very good quality of rubber can 

 be obtained from the shrub. The plant is much scattered, 

 and difficult of access in many places, but it is said that it 

 could easily be cultivated, and a company has been formed 

 or the purpose of exploiting it. 



In the Monthly Bulletin of the French Chamber of 

 Conmierce at Bio de .Janeiro, it is stated that a large indus- 

 try exi.sts in Paraguay, for the production of essence of ' petit 

 grain ' from the oil yielded by bitter orange leaves, by 

 distillation. It is simply and cheaply produced in a number 

 of small factories, the output lieing in the proportion of 1 lb. 

 of the essence from 300 ftj. of orange leaves. The essence, 

 which obtains a price of 11. v. to 1"2«. 6d. per B). at Asuncion, 

 is used as a basis for a large number of perfumes. 



.-^n Ordinance has recently been pa.ssed in St. Vincent, 

 entitled: An Ordinance to further regulate the purchase of 

 Cotton and to amend ' The Agricultural Products Protection 

 (Ordinance 1 906 '. It provides for the appointment of 

 inspectors of cotton; the examination of cotton land by these: 

 the regulation of sales of quantities of cotton not exceeding 

 1 ,000 ft). : the making of rules for regulating the purchase of 

 cotton by the Government Ginnerj-; the rendering of annual 

 returns of areas planted in cotton to the Treasurer: and for 

 penalties for offences against the Ordinance. 



