. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 9-2 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. March 12, GLEANINGS. According to tlie Maritiiui- Jferrhftnt tlie of molasses into Halifax for ;< were 17,010 punclieons, 2,093 and 3,73.'5 barrels, as against 13,2.')9 puncheons, 1,236 tierces and 2,424 barrels for the preceding year. We learn from the St. Vincent I'imat of February 2-5 that St. Vincent is likely to compete with the other West Indian Colonies in the production of honey. One bee-keeper owns over seventy colonies and intends to increas
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 9-2 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. March 12, GLEANINGS. According to tlie Maritiiui- Jferrhftnt tlie of molasses into Halifax for ;< were 17,010 punclieons, 2,093 and 3,73.'5 barrels, as against 13,2.')9 puncheons, 1,236 tierces and 2,424 barrels for the preceding year. We learn from the St. Vincent I'imat of February 2-5 that St. Vincent is likely to compete with the other West Indian Colonies in the production of honey. One bee-keeper owns over seventy colonies and intends to increase his apiary. It is announced that the cotton gins imported by the Government of Trinidad are now in working order at the St. Clair Experiment Station. Planters can have the free use of these gins, but must provide the necessary labour for working them. Mr. John Belling, , writes from the Agricultural School at St. Kitt's that the Barbadf)S blackbirds shipped by the Imperial Department of Agriculture and set free at Stone Foot estate have increased in number. Being unmo- lested they pick up their food near the estate buildings and seem as fearless as English sparrows. At a meeting of the Antigua Agricultural and Com- mercial Society held at Antigua on February 19, a resolution ?was ])assed expressing the regret of the Society at the departure of Mr. W. N. Sands, the Honorary Secretary, and its high appreciation of his valuable .services to Antigua and to the Sits, on the whole a success. I'nfortunately very bad weather jirevailed throughout the day, and this prevented a large attendance. According to the Ji/unial of the Society of Arts, raffia fibre, which is so commonly used for tying up garden plants, is the jiroduct of a palm indigenous to ^Madagascar, whence some 20,000 l>ales are annually exported. The sujijily is practically inexhaustible. For export it is merely collected in large skeins, twisted up and plaited, and then baled like raw cotton. The ]\\xf India Comm
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