Vol. XVI. No. 39h. 



THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



July 28. 1917. 



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Containing the following papers: — Note on the Recovery of 

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 Inheritance of the Number of Teeth in Bracts of Gossypium, 

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 Results obtained in the Dominica Manurial Experiments 

 with Cacao, by W. R. Dunlop; The Characters of certain 

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 of St. Vincent in 1902-3, by H. A. Tempany, D.Sc; A Note 

 on the Gail Patches in the Soils of Antigua, by H. A Tem- 

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 Sterilizatiim, by H. A. Tempany, D.Sc; The Fungi of the 

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