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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



August 12, 1905. 



GLEANINGS. 



The exports of arrowroot from Beimuda in 190i 

 amounted to 10 tons 2 cwt., of the value of £1,398; the 

 quantity exported in the previous year was 9 tons 9 cwt., 

 valued at £1,300. 



^Minister Powell, writing from rort-au-Prince, Hayti, 

 under date of March 2.3, 190-5, says: 'I have the honour 

 to state that the cotton crop this year will exceed by 2.") per 

 cent, the crop exported last year, which amounted to 75,000 

 bales.' (U.S. Monthly Consular Bejiorts.) 



According to the fVest India Committee Circular, the 

 attendance at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition since the 

 opening day, up to July 18, has been 530,614. A number 

 of prominent West Indians had signed the Committee's 

 register during the previous fortnight. 



Mr. August Busck, of the Bureau of Entomology of the 

 U.S. Department of Agriculture, was i-ecently in Barbados. 

 Mr. Busck is making a long .stay in the West Indies for the 

 purpose of collecting mosquitos. He had visited Trinidad 

 and j>roposed to spend .some time in Hayti and San Domingo. 



The Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture has received 

 from ^Ir. E. Lomas Oliver a cotton handkerchief made 

 entirely from Barbados cotton. It may be mentioned that 

 .similar handkerchiefs have, by request, been made for His 

 lioyal Highness the Prince of Wales and the Ihike of 

 Marlborough. 



The Secretary of Agriculture, Nova Scotia, has informed 

 the Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture that he will have 

 a good opportunity for selecting poultry of improved breeds, 

 ■which might be required for the West Indies, at the forth- 

 coming Provincial Exhibition which opens at Halifax on 

 September 12. 



Under the Auspice.s of the Antigua Agricultural and 

 Commercial Society, thirty-six -j^f-acre plots have been 

 marked off at Skerrett'.s, about five minutes' walk from 

 St. John's, and twelve of these plots have already been 

 taken up, the jieople paying a quarter's rent in advance. At 

 the last meeting of the society an Allotment Committee 

 was appointed. 



A notice has been inserted in the St. Vincent Gazette 

 urging that owners of stock should immediately report 

 to the nearest Police Station any case of sudden sickness or 

 death among stock. An animal so dying should on no 

 account be cut up for food, as it may have died of anthrax, 

 which is a very dangerous disease, from which [lersons 

 cutting up such an animal may die. The carcass should, if 

 jxvjsible, be burnt. 



The report on the seventh annual Dominica Agricultural 

 Show, held on February 23 and 24, 1905, is published in the 

 Donunica Official (r'azette. The expenses of the show were 

 .£G0 4s. 5(/., of which £25 was provided by the Inqierial 

 1 )epartment of Agriculture. 



A correspondent in Barbados desires information in 

 regard to the ' Wall Swallow.' This bird is not mentioned in 

 Colonel Fielden's list, published in the We.<f Indian BuUetiii, 

 (Vol. Ill, pp. 333-52). As it may also be known by another 

 name, readers familiar with it are invited to communicate 

 with the Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture. 



A gentleman in Antigua has a small collection of orchids, 

 conqirising some twenty-three species, of which he is desirous 

 of disclosing. Some of the plants have already flowered. They 

 would form a nice nucleus for a collectioi\. The price asked 

 for the collection is £3 : packing and freight, extra. Further 

 information may bo obtaiiied on application to — A.. S. Archer, 

 St. John's, Antigua. 



The annual report of the Shortwood (Female) Training 

 College for teachers in Jamaica states that regidar 

 instruction has been given to the students in agricultural 

 science by Mr. Teversham, and in gardening by Mr. Cunning- 

 ham. 'The Lady Principal reports that the third-year 

 students now have charge of a small "model school garden " 

 in which each second-year student has a plot of her own/ 



Messrs. Henry W. Frost A' Co. report on the Sea Islands 

 cotton market, under date July 20, as follows : ' The 38 

 bales of "fully line" were taken this week, leaving in stock 

 now only about 100 bales— chiefly undesiiable cotton and 

 held off the market under instructions fi-om the owner for 

 higher prices. We have had a return of more favourable 

 weatlier this week, and the crop generally is rejiorted in 

 a promising condition.' 



The Colonizer for July contains an interesting summary 

 of 'a chat with Mr. Algernon Asjiinall, the Secretary of 

 the West India Committee, on West Indian Prospects." 

 Mr. Asiiinall discussed the oiienings for colonization and 

 settlement, laying .special stress on the prospects of lime and 

 cacao cultivation in L)ominica, where, he stated, every 

 assistance would be given by the officers of the Imperial 

 Department of Agriculture. 



The Agricultural Superintendent at St. Kitt's reports- 

 that at Molineux estate a trial is being made with rubber 

 planting, and 439 plants of Castilloa and 263 of Funtumia 

 were raised at the Botanic Station and distributed to this 

 estate. The young trees are doing well. It is proposed to 

 raise as many rubber plants as possible at the station dniing 

 the present year with a view to the extension of rubber 

 cultivation in the island. 



Mr. J. H. Hart, F. L. S., Superintendent of the lioyal 

 Botanic Gardens, Trinidad, returned from England in the 

 li. !M. S. 'Orinoco' on August 1. As was stated in the 

 Agricultural News (Vol. IV, p. 108), Mr. Hart visited 

 England as the Commissioner for Trinidad at the Colonial 

 and Indian Exhibition, at the Crystal Palace. His efforts ia 

 connexion with the Trinidad exhibits have been greatly 

 appreciated, and they are understood to have contributed 

 largely to the success of the Trinidad Court. Mr. Hart 

 has been relieved by Jlr. W. E. Smith, the ^Manager of the 

 Trinidad Government Itailwa}'. 



