. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 364 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. November 13, The grants awarded by tlie Board of Agriculture and Fisheries in aid of agricultural education in England and Wales amounted to £12,100 in the j'ear ending March 31, 1908; while in addition, special grants amounting to £380 were made for experiment and research. GLEANINGS. A demand for .Jamaica bananas has recently arisen in Finland, and it is expected that the trade in this fruit will rapidly increase. By instruction of his Honour the Administrator of Grenada, the 'Mo
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 364 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. November 13, The grants awarded by tlie Board of Agriculture and Fisheries in aid of agricultural education in England and Wales amounted to £12,100 in the j'ear ending March 31, 1908; while in addition, special grants amounting to £380 were made for experiment and research. GLEANINGS. A demand for .Jamaica bananas has recently arisen in Finland, and it is expected that the trade in this fruit will rapidly increase. By instruction of his Honour the Administrator of Grenada, the 'Morne Rouge Swamp has been stocked with millions, which were supplied from the Botanic Station tank. In Mexico, during the season November 1908 to April 1909, the coffee crop was expected to reach a quantity of 81 million, as against 33 million pounds for the preceding season. The value of the exports from the Seychelles in 1908, exclusive of specie, was £99,27-5. In the same year, the value of vanilla exported was £17,632; this is a large decrease from that of 1907, which was about £60,000. Sir Alfred .Jones has offered to give £,000 to the funds of the British Cotton Growing Association, on condi- tion that the Lancashire Cotton Spinners collect subscriptions to the amount of £1-50,000 within the next half-year. The area in cocoa-nuts in the native ^lalay States at the end of 1908 was 118,697 acres; this is an incre^tse of over 6,000, or 5 per cent., since the same date in 1907, when the area was 112, acres. {A(jricidtural Bulletin of the Federated Malay States, Vol. VIII, No. 9.) The Chabarra C'entral Factory in Cuba holds the record for the largest amount of sugar made during the past season. This was 68,292 tons. The weight of cane ground was 702,000 tons, so that, on the average, 217 ft. of sugar was obtained from each ton of cane. In the Mam-hculef GnanUaii of September 29, 1909, the statement is made that the demand for cotton and other textile goods in the
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