. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 236 THE AGEICULTUr>AL NEWS. July 29, A meeting of tbe Antigua Agricultuial and Commercial Society on July 7 was attended by a representative of >[ Fowler & Sons, steam plough manufacturers. In response to an inquiry, this gentlemen said that the problem of ploughing in trash had never before been presented to his firm, l>ut that they were making a specially designed jilough for that [)urpose which would be tried in Antigua. GLEANINGS. It may be mentioned that the Symington Fruit Syndicat
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 236 THE AGEICULTUr>AL NEWS. July 29, A meeting of tbe Antigua Agricultuial and Commercial Society on July 7 was attended by a representative of >[ Fowler & Sons, steam plough manufacturers. In response to an inquiry, this gentlemen said that the problem of ploughing in trash had never before been presented to his firm, l>ut that they were making a specially designed jilough for that [)urpose which would be tried in Antigua. GLEANINGS. It may be mentioned that the Symington Fruit Syndicate has finally decided to cease all operations in Trinidad. A private meeting r.'f the Tol ago Planters' Association was held on July 5, when rules were drawn up for the management of the affairs of the Association. According to the Port-of-Spaiii Gazette, a trial shiimient of Sea Island cotton, grown by ^Mr. C. W. Wyatt at Princes' Town, Trinidad, has been pronounced 'very good' and fetched 1 'IJ. and 1 \d. per It). It would ai>pear that the peasants at are taking an increasing interest in the matter of stock. In the la>t half-year about £1,000 in cattle went off the island and £400 in small stock. The .shipment of molasses from Barbados for the present eroii, up to July , was 33,C7t> iiuncheons, as compared with 38,841 puncheons at the same time last year. The crop is now practicall}' closed. (Messrs. James A. Lynch it Co.'s ' Market Iteport,' I'.arbados, July 15.) In reference to the note in the Agricultural New!> (Vol. IV, p. 117) describing the 'thread' disease of cacao and mentioning its a[iiiearance in St. Lucia, Trinidad, and British Guiana, it ma)' be of interest to state that Dr. Watts reports that the disease has, so fai-, not been found in Dominica. Messrs. Henry W. Frost it Co's. report on the Sea Islands market, dated Charleston, July 1, 1905, states :— 'The crop reports are generally favouralile, and the outlook at present is promisin
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