MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS /O? 



in the Bulletin Agricole and in the Departmental reports. 

 Java and the Dutch colonies generally are represented by 

 Der Indische Mercuur Ar chief voor de Suikerindustrie in 

 Nederlandsch-Indie, Bulletin van het Deli Pro ef station, 

 and others. In the East, also, the Hawaii Agricultural 

 Experiment Station publishes valuable bulletins on sugar 

 production, and in Australia there is the Journal of the 

 Queensland Department of Agriculture, and the Aus- 

 tralian Sugar Journal, published at Melbourne. The 

 principal sugar journal in South Africa is the Durban 

 Agricultural Nezvs. Facts concerning the sugar industry 

 in the Argentina find circulation in Revista Industrial y 

 Agricola de Tucuman. 



Tea and Rice. 



The production of these two crops being principally 

 confined to the Far East, one looks to publications from 

 this part of the world for leading information. Tea and 

 rice go into consumption without that intensive manu- 

 facture which characterizes rubber, fibres and sugar, and 

 this lessens the necessity for the very technical journals 

 that have arisen in connection with these latter-named 

 crops. As regards tea, Ceylon and Southern India 

 publish the results of work through the medium of the 

 Tropical Agriculturist, Indian Planters' Gazette, and the 

 Planters' Chronicle. The Reports of the Assam Depart- 

 ment are also important. The Indian and Ceylon pub- 

 lications devote considerable space to the subject of rice 

 growing. It is also of interest to note the appearance 

 of papers and articles on this industry which are of late 

 making their appearance in the British Guiana and 

 Trinidad periodicals consequent on the settlement of a 

 coolie population in these colonies. Hawaii, too, has a 

 developing rice industry, and experimental work has for 

 some time been in progress there. The Japanese, the 

 Javanese, and the West African publications also should 

 be consulted in regard to rice growing. 



Cofjec and Tobacco. 



The cultivation of these crops, particularly tobacco, is 

 very widely spread, hence literature dealing with them 



