. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 396 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. December 2, GLEANINGS. Institutions and business establishments which employ a number of youths between the ages of fifteea and twenty will be interested to learn of a scheme of education adopted by thejj!tlunicipal Council of .Johannesberg, at their Abattoir and Live Stock Market. On the recom- mendation of the Council, the Education Department conducts classes at the Abattoir, tlius giving these youths an oppor- tunity of improving tliek education and fitting them f
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 396 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. December 2, GLEANINGS. Institutions and business establishments which employ a number of youths between the ages of fifteea and twenty will be interested to learn of a scheme of education adopted by thejj!tlunicipal Council of .Johannesberg, at their Abattoir and Live Stock Market. On the recom- mendation of the Council, the Education Department conducts classes at the Abattoir, tlius giving these youths an oppor- tunity of improving tliek education and fitting them for responsible positions in various walks of life. This matter is referred to in the report of the Director of Abattoir and Live Stock Markets, July 1, 1914, to .June 30, 1915. In the St. Ltuia Gazette for November 11, 1916, a Proclamation appears containing the regulations regarding the maximum price of foodstuffs in St Lucia. The maximum price of flour (white) is at 3id., white loaf sugar 5J-rf., and corn meal 'Ihd. per BE),, respectively. The prices vary according to distance from Castries, the principal town. Experiments on the manuring of maize, described in the Rhodesia A(jrindlural,JourniiI for August 1916, show that the same land that receives a dressing of manure the previous year is capable of still producing large increases in the yield of maize by virtue of residual value. This opens up the question as to whether the application of manure is worth while i»very year. According to a paper in the Journal of Af/ricultural Jiescarch (Vol. VII, 5fo. 2), on the immobility of iron iu plants, various observations on rice and pine-apples grown with insufficient iron seem to show that iron after once being transported to the leaves is immobile. In a general way it would appear that once iron has reached the leaves of plants it is not translocated to other parts of the plant. The Colonial Jmirnal for October 1916 contams notes of interest to the West Indies. I'eference
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