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1333. Anonymous. Flue curing lemon bright tobacco leaf. Jour. Dept. Agric. Victoria 

 17:377-378. 1919. — The varieties giving best results by flue curing are Spotted Gum and 

 Yellow Pryor. — J. J . Skinner. 



1334. Anonymous. Procedimiento para hacer germinar las semillas de dificil germina- 

 cion. [A method of germinating hard seeds.] Informacion Agric. [Madrid] 9: 11. 1919. — 

 Hot water at 50°-70°C. is recommended, the temperature varying with different types of 

 seed. — John A. Stevenson. 



1335. Anonymous. Conveniencia economica de la plantacion de arboles en las praderas. 

 [Economic advantage of tree plantations on prairies.] Informacion Agric. [Madrid] 9: 109-110. 

 1919. — A review of experiments conducted on the plains of Russia in growing legumes and 

 other crops continuously and in rotation with trees. (Original source of information not 

 cited.) — John A. Stevenson. 



1336. Anonymous. The world and its food shortage. Part XI. Tropical Life 15: 37-38. 

 1919. — A compilation discussing the value of the groundnut peanut (Arachis hypogaea) as a 

 human food. A standard article called "nutramine" is made from the cake after the oil 

 content has been lowered to about 5 per cent by first grinding the cake finely in an ordinary 

 roller mill and then sieving the flour. This nut flour or "nutramine" is prepared for con- 

 sumption usually by mixing it with wheat flour. — H. N. Vinall. 



1337. Anonymous. Sisal for selling. VI. Tropical Life 15: 18-19. 1919.— A compila- 

 tion discussing the kind of soils suited to the production of sisal. It is noted that sisal grows 

 well on the Caicos Islands (attached administratively to Jamaica). The true sisal (Agave 

 sisalana) was found growing there as early as 1889 and producing a fibre equal to the best 

 Yucatan. The most productive sisal soil in these islands is that in which the geological 

 foundation is wholly limestone. — H. N. Vinall. 



1338. Anonymous. Sisal for selling. VII. Tropical Life 15:34-35. 1919.— A com- 

 pilation discussing the "Proposed Manurial and other Experiments for Sisal Plants in the 

 Turks and Caicos Islands." The yields on the Caicos Islands are compared with those of 

 Yucatan. — H. N. Vinall. 



1339. Anonymous. Sisal for selling. VIII. Tropical Life 15: 67-68. 1919.— A discus- 

 sion of soils and climates suited to sisal production, being a compilation of material from the 

 article by Lyster Dewey on "The Principal Commercial Plant Fibres," in U. S. Dept. Agric. 

 Yearbook 1903,and Bull. 4 Agric. Exp. Sta. of Hawaii by Frank E. Conter, 1903.— H. N. Vinall. 



1340. Anonymous. Sisal for selling. IX. [Rev. of: Hoffmann, A. Tropicale Mada- 

 gascar 19:219-226. 1918.] Tropical Life 15:86-87. 1919.— Contains instructions for the 

 establishment of a nursery, also outline of a scheme for a sisal plantation in Madagascar. 

 Mr. Hoffmann estimates that a capital of 200,000 francs is needed for a 200 hectare plantation 

 on which a profit of 500 to 600 francs per hectare per year might be expected. A list of the 

 known species of Agave is given with a short statement regarding the climatic and soil 

 adaptations of each. — H. N. Vinall. 



1341. Anonymous. Guinea corn as a fodder crop. Agric. News [Barbados] 18: 103. 

 April 5, 1919.— Agronomic notes on this crop in Jamaica, compiled from a lecture by L. L. 

 Carrington published in Jamaica Gleaner, February 27, 1919. — C. V. Piper. 



1342. Anonymous. Clidemia hirta— a noxious weed in Fiji. Agric. News [Barbados] 

 18: 137. May 3, 1919.— This tropical American plant is reported in a letter from the Fiji 

 government to the government of British Guiana as having become an agricultural pest in 

 Fiji, where it is known as Rosters Curse. It is said not to be troublesome in the West Indies. 

 — C. V. Piper. 



