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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS 



March 16, 191; 



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Vol. XL SATURDAY. MARCH 16, 1912. No. 258. 



.NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Contents of Present Issue • ■ 



The edi'oriil in lliis number cons ;itu:es t!ie third 

 and last nnicle dealing chieHy with niapters ihat re- 

 ceived discuss.ion at the recent Agricultural Conference. 



An article on page 83 describes iiiter<>siing and, 

 important work that has been conducted re,cently in, 

 connexion with the formation of calcium carbonate iii 

 soil's. 



Information Regarding the Mango'. 



A list of some of the authorities that may be con- 

 sulted for informsition concerning the mango is given in 

 the Pomona College Journal of IJconomic Botany 

 for December 1911, and is reproduced here for informa- 

 tion, ;1S follows. 



Woodrow, The Mango: Its Culture and Varieties, 

 P.tisley, 1904: Collins, The Mango in Porio Rico 

 (Burtau of Plant Industry, Bulletin No. 28), Washing- 

 ton, 1906; Higgins, The Mango in Hawaii (Hawaii 

 Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 12), 

 Washington 1906; McMillan, A Handbook of Tropical 

 ( iardening and Planting, Colombo, 1910; Jumelle, Les 

 Cultures Coloniales, Paris, 1901: Hartles?, A Tabular 

 List of Mangoii Grown at the Government Botanic 

 (Jardens, Sahar^npur, U.P., Inxlia: Yenrbooks of the 

 United States Depirtmenn of Agiicniturc for 1901, 

 1907, 190S an^ 1910; Catalogue of Government 

 Botanical Gardens, Saharanpnr India, 1907; Catalogue 

 of Tropical Fruit 'I'reps, William Bros., Heneratgoda,, 

 Ceylon, 1907; Cataloijuc of Royal Palm Nurseries,; 

 Oneco, Florida, for 1911-1 2: Inventories of Bi,ireaj[i of 

 Plant Industry, United States Department of Agri-^ 

 culture. 



[ Information available in an old work dealing with 

 travels in America forms the subject of .-in abstract on 

 page 85, describing early agricultural conditions in the 

 Bahamas. .. > 



"Attention is drawn to a note, on page 86, concern- 

 ing certain changes in the. terms of insurance of West 

 Indian cotton by the British Cot.ton Growing Associa- 



Indian co 

 tion. 



' An inteiesting article^ dealing with sore shins m 

 horses, appeals on page S7. 



' The Insect Notes, in this issue, are given on page 

 90. ' They have for their subject an account of the sugar- 

 cane beetle that has proved such a menace to the sugar- 

 cane indiistiy of Maurititi!=, and against which an ener- 

 getic campaign has been conducted recently. Special 

 iiiterest att-iches to this insect, from the fact that it is 

 Ibund in parts' of the -West Lidies, where it is appar- 

 ently colli rolled by natural enemies. 



The Fungus Notes, on page 94, comprise the 

 former of two articles dealing with the bud rot of the 

 cocoa-nut palm. . - 



The Ranfall of Dominica, 1911. 



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Ihe rainfall roiuriis of Dominica for 1911 show 



t.hat the greatest jirecipitiition was received at Gleau 



Manioc, Saltoun, Lonjir Dition and Corlet, with 270 47, 



249 4.5, 230 76 and 219 59 inches, respectively; at no- 



station other than these was more than 200 inches 



registered. Gleau- Manioc has received the highest' 



rainfall of all stations, during the last four years, the' 



flcjiues for the first three being: 1908 23618, 1909 



258-82, and 1910 302 56 inches. ^ • ' 



As in the pa?t three years, Batalie h.-is received . 

 trhe smallest precipitation, in this instance 62 41 inches. 

 It is followed by Macoucherie w'ith 6636, Wall House 

 with 81'33, and Picaid with 8259 inches. The increase 

 in the rainfall, even at those stations where it is usually 

 low, which took place in 1909, has no,t been main- 

 tained to the same e.xfcnc as it was during 19J0. 



As was mentioned in the lai-t volume of the Agri- 

 cultural Ahnvs, p, 137, the average jji-ecipitation for' 

 the years s.ncft 1907 and 1908 had been about 30 

 inches higher than it was in those years. This increase 

 has been maintained in 1911, but not to the same 

 e.Ktcnt as was the ca,'e in 1909 and 1910, in which the 

 mean for thirty-four stations was 137 36 and 136 59 

 inches, as comparrd with the mean for thirty-six 

 stations in 1911, which was 13269 inches; the b;i.sis of 

 this comparison is not strictly correct, ow-ing to the 

 fact that, in the last-mentioned year the average was 

 cist from a larger number of .-tations. 



In regard to the distribution of the rainfall, the 

 averages in the different districts were as follows: four- 

 teen Leewar'd 'Coast st:itions 9466, three Windward 

 Coast stations "133 64, twelve Inland stations 19085, 

 and six La Soyc C'oast stations 108-"53 inches. 



