. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 188 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Juxi-: 12, GLEANINGS. Dui-ing the year ended !Maic-li 31 last, 14,277,30(1 bunches of bananas were exported fnim Jamaica, as t-ciniiiared with 13,950,767 bundles in 1907-S. A letter from Mr. .1. Afaginley ai)peared in the Colonizer for May last, in which attention is drawn to the opportunity that exists at Antigua for the establishment of one or two central sugar factories. The (kivernor of the f!old (.'oast has reported to the Colonial Office that the cacao crop of the colony tor
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 188 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Juxi-: 12, GLEANINGS. Dui-ing the year ended !Maic-li 31 last, 14,277,30(1 bunches of bananas were exported fnim Jamaica, as t-ciniiiared with 13,950,767 bundles in 1907-S. A letter from Mr. .1. Afaginley ai)peared in the Colonizer for May last, in which attention is drawn to the opportunity that exists at Antigua for the establishment of one or two central sugar factories. The (kivernor of the f!old (.'oast has reported to the Colonial Office that the cacao crop of the colony tor 1908 amounted to 28,545,910 Ih., as compared with 21,744,000 lb. iu 1907. [Itdiird ot Tnidc Joiirnnl.) The British Cotton Growing Association recently made a donation of i;15 t" the .lamaica Agricultural Siociety in order to supplement the grant of £10 lately allotted by the Sosiety for cotton exi)eriments this \eir. The Acting Agricultural Puperintendent. (irenada, that four Para rubber trees (Heri<i l/i-euxis) at the Botanic Station are likely to yield a fair ipiantity of seed in the near future. at Grenada. There is a good demand fur this seed From the commencement of the season up to .Tune 4, there have been ship[)ed from Barbados 5,258 tons of sugar, and 42,242 [)uncheons of , as against 1(5,492 tons of sugar, and 32,040 ])unr, ilrli\ ru'd at the Police Station, Antiirua. Tlu" sugar returns from .Java show a in tlie output. In 1908, there were pioduccd 1,.3,3.^,455 tons of .sugiir, as compared with l,2f<2,705 tons in 1907, and 1,133,525 tons in 190(1. During the past year, some 170 sugar mills have Ih'cu in (/'. .V. (\,iixiilort for 19()S on the Sugar Ivvpcriment Station at Audubon Bark, Louisiana, menl'ii>ns that a number of cane loaders of which publii' trials were made in past years at the Station have for the past two seasons been actively employed in the cane fields of the State. They have been
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