. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 268 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. August 25, GLEANINGS. According to the Consular Report, 1,889 tons of castor oil seeds were exported from Pernanibuco, Brazil, during 190-5. His Majesty the King has been pleased to accept from the West Indian Produce Association a packet of tea from the estate of the Hon. H. E. Cox, Custos of St. Ann, .Jamaica. Ripe-rot {Gloeosjwrhim mumrum) injured 50 per cent, of the banana crop in Hawaii, especially in fruit not properly packed ; estimated loss, §30,000. (Yearbook of the D
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 268 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. August 25, GLEANINGS. According to the Consular Report, 1,889 tons of castor oil seeds were exported from Pernanibuco, Brazil, during 190-5. His Majesty the King has been pleased to accept from the West Indian Produce Association a packet of tea from the estate of the Hon. H. E. Cox, Custos of St. Ann, .Jamaica. Ripe-rot {Gloeosjwrhim mumrum) injured 50 per cent, of the banana crop in Hawaii, especially in fruit not properly packed ; estimated loss, §30,000. (Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, 1905.) Mr. R. D. Anstead, , Agricultural Superintendent, has been appointed to be, provisionally and temporarily, the Agricultural Authority in Grenada under the 'Plant Protection Ordinance, 1906.' The preference granted by Canada to West Indian sugar is having good results. Not a pound of Trinidad sugar found its way to the United States last crop. (Inter- national Sugar Journal.) The world's average productionof raw silk is 42,332,0001b. Of this amount Cliina and Jafian are responsible for 2-5,336,000 It). Italy is the largest producer in Europe. (Atlas of the Worlds Commerce.) Attention has been drawn to an error in an article on the cocoa-nut industry in the Philippines [Agrindtural News, Vol. V, p. 201). Through a miscalculation, the average yield of copra from 1,000 nuts, in the Tayabas province, was given as 138 lb. The figures should have been 620 If). The arrivals of cacao this year (1906) at New York, up to July 22, totalled 285,811 bags, as compared with 275,145 bags at the same date last year, 257,387 bags in 1904, and 214,058 bags in 1903. (Messrs. Gillespie Bros. A- Co.'s Market Report, -July 27, 1906.) The number of crates of onions exported from Antigua during the last five vears has been as follows : 1901, 1,300 ; 1902, 546; 1903, 550; 1904, 4,524; 1905, 1,078. The value of the exports has been: 1903, £101; 1904, £860; 1905, £2
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