. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 301 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. September 10, >-'.«^>'^i^^~i*--^=S GLEANINGS. The value of toniatcis .shipped from the Canary Islands during 1903 was £182,000, and that of £-30,886. (Consulr,!' Bejjoi-t for 1903.) We learn with much pleasure that His the King has granted a charter of incorporation to the West India Committee. The judges in the Prize Holdings Scheme in Jamaica report excellent results in the competition in the parish of St. Elizabeth. There -were eighty-four entries. The ra
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 301 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. September 10, >-'.«^>'^i^^~i*--^=S GLEANINGS. The value of toniatcis .shipped from the Canary Islands during 1903 was £182,000, and that of £-30,886. (Consulr,!' Bejjoi-t for 1903.) We learn with much pleasure that His the King has granted a charter of incorporation to the West India Committee. The judges in the Prize Holdings Scheme in Jamaica report excellent results in the competition in the parish of St. Elizabeth. There -were eighty-four entries. The rainfall at Belize, Honduras, during the year 1903, amounted to 70-90 inches. This was inches below the average for the last twenty years. At a meeting of the Antigua Agricultural and Commercial Society, held on August 5, it was stated that two lots of cotton shipped from the cotton factorv had been sold at 16R per H). We learn tliat two experts are shortly to visit the ^^'est Indies on behalf of Cotton Growing Association for the puri)Ose of reporting on the development of the cotton industrj-. According to returns published in the Annual Repurt on Bermuda, the rainfall at the Prosjiect Camp Observatory amounted to 9214: inches during the year, or 0"93 inches less than the average of the past nine years. The yield of ground nuts in Egypt is about -55 bushels per acre. They are not generally manured. They are chiefly exported to Turkey. {Bulhfhi 62, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture.) The Chemist and Drugght of July 30 contains a valuable article by Mr. C. J. Sawer, , , on ' Citronella and Lemongrass.' Special reference is made to essential oils from the West Indies. The Acting Agricultural Instructor at St. Lucia reports that a planter is intending to take up iiine-aj)ple cultivation on a fairly large scale in that island. The black Antigua is the favourite variety in St. Lucia. A committee of the Antigua Ag
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