Agricultural news . ^lW, equivalent to about !*+0 peracre. It must also be remembered that under the auspices of theImperial Department of Agriculture experiments with thiscrop were made some years ago in Antigua. At that timeit did not seem to hold out any prospects of being sutHcieutiyremunerative to cause the cultivation to b3 taken up to anyextent. The price then was not more than £12 per present market price is about £3-2 per ton, and seemslikely to rise. The question therefore may deserve re-consideration in some of these smaller islands wherethe plant crrtainly nourishes. Could
Agricultural news . ^lW, equivalent to about !*+0 peracre. It must also be remembered that under the auspices of theImperial Department of Agriculture experiments with thiscrop were made some years ago in Antigua. At that timeit did not seem to hold out any prospects of being sutHcieutiyremunerative to cause the cultivation to b3 taken up to anyextent. The price then was not more than £12 per present market price is about £3-2 per ton, and seemslikely to rise. The question therefore may deserve re-consideration in some of these smaller islands wherethe plant crrtainly nourishes. Could the seeds be dealtwith locally for the extraction of the oil, the residuemicbt be utilized as a fertilizer of considerable cannot howevt-r be used as a cattle food. It mightbe possible for the piesent factorie- extracting cottonseedoil to utilize their machinery for the production of castor-seed oil during tho pat of the year when their machinery-perforce lies idle. 156 THE AGKICDLTUKAL NEWS May 18. Since the commencement of the war up to the presenttime it is stated in Aa/it/f, Marcli 28, 918, that tens ofthousands of acres of woods and forests have been destroyedin the Isles. What the effect of this will be upouthe wild bird life it is difficult to foretell, blt it seems verylikely that it will mean a large decrease in the number ofinsectivorous birds, and that c()Dsei]uenily for some years tocome there will be trouble with plagues of various insects. GLEANINGS. The area under rice in British Guiana in 1917 was• acres with a yield of 45,000 tons valued at £500, average yields of the colony per acre were only exceededby those in Egypt and .Japan, the abandoned sugar landsbeing especially suited for rice cultivation. (The Dtrntz-ariiDaily Argusv, April 27, 1918.) From the Ciibu Review, March 1918, we gather thatalthough the sugar planters of Cuba have don« exceedinglywell with their crop, the tobacco planters are experiencingrather har
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