Vol. XI. No. 274. 



THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



3.51 



'Successful inoculations have been made on lime, pomelo, 

 lemon, tangerine, and Citrus trifoliata. Only one trial (five 

 iuocnVitions) was made on oranges, the trees not being 

 available. As knots occur on oranges in the field and as 

 infection took place in the limes inoculated the same day 

 with the same culture, the failure of the experiment was 

 probably due to the fact that the trees were not in good 

 condition or were not of a susceptible variety.' 



It was found that non-fruiting strains of the fungus lost 

 their virulence when cultivated for a long time on artificial 

 media It was also observed that woody parts of the host 

 are apparently as susceptible to disease as are the young, 

 rapidly growing ones. 



'The fungus can live for some years in the host. It has 

 been isolated from secondary knots four years and eight 

 months after the tree was inoculated, and one year after it 

 had been cut down and brought into the laboratory.' 



REMEDIAL MEASURES. 'Afifected limbs should be removed, 

 care being taken to cut them o9^ well below the lowest knot. 

 Badly diseased trees should be rooted out and burned, that 

 they may not prove a source of infection to sound trees 

 through the dissemination of the fungus spores. Great care 

 should be taken to select only sound trees for grafting 

 purposes.' 



WEST INDIAN PRODUCTS. 



DRUGS AND SPICES ON THE LONDON 

 MARKET 



Mr. J. R. Jackson, A.L.S., has forwarded the fol- 

 lowing report on the London drug and spice market, 

 for the month of October 1912: — 



The opinion expressed in our report for August, that 

 brighter conditions in the drug and spice markets, might be 

 expected on the termination of the summer holidays has not 

 been altogether realized. The month of September indeed, 

 opened with a .small and inactive amount of business, which 

 however, generally improved as the month advanced. Many 

 important chemicals and a few drugs showed a decided 

 advance in prices, but of these few were of vegetable origin, 

 and fewer still of West Indian produce. Thus glycerine 

 continues to advance while quinine has declined. The 

 following are the details affecting West Indian products. 



GINGER. 



At the first spice auction on the 4th of the month the 

 offerings amounted to .545 packages. Of 498 packages of 

 Cochin, only a few were sold, 40.s. per cwt. being paid for 

 cut tips. Washed rough was bought in at 40s. to 43s., and 

 small cut Calicut at 65s., medium at 80s. and bold at 85s. 



On the 11th of the month Jamaica was represented by 

 47 bags of good small ordinary, all of which were bought in 

 at 54s., 181 bags of Cochin were also offered without reserve, 

 and sold at 28s. for washed rough, chiefly small and wormy, 

 25s. to 25s. 6rf. being paid for small and wormy. On the 

 18th the offerings consisted of only 50 bags of Cochin, brown 

 rough fetching 44s. other description.? being bought in, On 



the 25th the offerings consisted of 196 hags of washed rough, 

 wormy Cochin, which were bought in at 30s. per cwt. Forty- 

 three cases of Calicut were sold yitho.ut reserve, bold cut 

 fetching 78«. per cwt. and small cut 55s. per cwt. 



NUTMEGS AND M"ACE. 



At auction on the 4th, 60 packages of West Indian 

 were disposed of at the following rates: 65's lid, 94's to 

 lOl's 7d, 113'8 to 120's Id. to 7|cf. and 'l40'8 ^d. 

 A week later 44 packages of West Indwn were brought 

 forward and sold 95's at 8rf., 102's to 107's l\d. to M., 112'a 

 to 118's Ihd. to M. and 122's to 126'3 l^d.' On the 18th, 

 113 packages of West Indian were offered and mostly sold 

 71's fetching 7irf , 86's to 96s Ihd. to 8d, 103's to 118's l^d. 

 to Srf. and Hi's 7icZ. Seventy-five packages of Eastern were 

 also disposed of at the following rates: 117's 8|f?. and 127's 

 l\d. On the 2.5th 747 packages of West Indian were offered 

 and all sold at rates varying slightly from the above. There 

 has been a steady demand for mace during the month. On 

 the 1 8th, 33 packages of West Indian and 17 of Eastern were 

 offered the former realized 2s. 3d. to 2s. 5cZ. for good, and 2s. 

 to 2s. '2d. for broken. On the 25th the offerings were 257 

 packages of West Indian all of which were sold at 2s. to 

 2s. Id. for sound and Is. 9d. to 2s. for broken. 



SARSAPARILLA. 



At the first drug auction on the 5th sarsaparilla was in 

 good supply, the offerings amounting to 25 bales of grey 

 Jamaica, 35 of native .Jamaica, 4 of Lima Jamaica, 10 of 

 Honduras, and 10 Mexican. Of the first, 3 bales only 

 were sold; of the second 18; of the third all 4 bales; of 

 the fourth none, and of the fifth none. The bulk of the 

 grey Jamaica was held firmly, at 2s. 3rf. per K)., offers of 

 2s. Id. being refused. Two of the three bales which found 

 buyers were of an ordinary character, and fetched 2s. \d. 

 per lb. and the remaining one — sea damaged — Is. \Qd. Of 

 the 18 bales of native Jamaica which also found buyers 

 Is. 2d. was paid for good red, lOrf. for dullish red, and 8cf. 

 to 8J(i. for inferior yellow and grey mixed. For the 4 

 bales of Lima Jamaica, fair fetched Is. \0d. to 2s. and sea 

 damaged Is. 6</. per Bb. The whole of the Mexican was 

 held at 7irf. A fortnight later, namely on the 19th the 

 offerings of sarsaparilla were only 10 bales of grey Jamaica, 

 and 17 of native Jamaica. The first were disposed of at 

 '2d. per lb. cheaper than previous races, namely 2s. for fair, 

 and Is. \\d. for ordinary, partly rough. Of the native 

 Jamaica 11 bales only were sold, fair red fetching Is, to 

 Is. \d., ordinary 9rf. to \0d. and dull red and yellow S^cZ. 



OIL OF LIME, CASSIA FISTULA, KOLA AND TAMARINDS. 



At the beginning of the month there was a demand for 

 genuine hand pressed West Indian oil of lime, and towards 

 the end of the month one case of Dominican oil of the above 

 character was brought forward and limited at 7s %d. per %. 

 On the 5th one bag only of Dominica cassia fistula was 

 offered and sold at 25s. per cwt. for good fresh pods. At 

 auction on the 18th kola was represented by 40 bags, 

 20 of which were sold at 4rf. per fti.: for Ceylon halves 

 and quarters, partly of dark colour, one bag of good 

 St. Lucia fetched b\d. per lb. At the end of the month 

 kola was reported to be scarce, but that an arrival was 

 shortly expected from the West Indies. Of tamarinds, 

 25 packages of West Indian were brought forward on the 

 19th, 22 of which sold at 14s. per cwt. for juicy Barbados 

 and lis. per cwt. for St. Thomas, in bond. 



