. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 394 THE AGKICULTUEAL NEWS. Decemder 5, GLEANINGS. Sir Daniel Morris, , has just edited A Natural History of Bnurnemoutk and District. Nature, October 29, 1914, says that under the able editorship it is a model of "what such a book should be. The total exports of rubber from Ceylon during the six months, January to .June 1914, according to official returns issued by the Ceylon Government, were 1-0,115,560 lb. (The Board oj Trade Journal, October 15, 1914.) An article in the Tropical Agriculturist
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 394 THE AGKICULTUEAL NEWS. Decemder 5, GLEANINGS. Sir Daniel Morris, , has just edited A Natural History of Bnurnemoutk and District. Nature, October 29, 1914, says that under the able editorship it is a model of "what such a book should be. The total exports of rubber from Ceylon during the six months, January to .June 1914, according to official returns issued by the Ceylon Government, were 1-0,115,560 lb. (The Board oj Trade Journal, October 15, 1914.) An article in the Tropical Agriculturist for September 1914, forecasts many new uses for rubber: (1) wherever leather is used to-day rubber will soon prove a formidable rival; (2) as a competitor of lumber—liardwood flooring, shingles, boat planks; (3) as a rival for steel springs for cars. In recommending the treatment of land with lime the Southern Planter, November 1914, says: 'there are limestone grinding and crushing niacliines on the market which can be bought at prices ranging from .1250 to $700'; and asks, •Why don't a number of farmers get together and buy one ? of these machines?' A letter to the Tropical A'jriculturist, September 1914, describes 'poppadams' as a thin paper like biscuit prepared from meal obtained from beans {Phaseolus sp.). The same letter says that for making curry something more than curry powder is required, namely 'curry leaves' such as morinca, andropogon, and pandanus; without these leaves the true <;urry flavour cannot be got. In the year 1900 the world's production of rubber was ubout 50,000 tons, and the consumption about the same. Last year the world's production of rubber amounted to 117,000 tons, and the consumption to slightly more than that amount. Whatever the temporary effects of the war may be on the rubber industry, it is expected that it will continue to ^ive handsome returns on the large capital invested in it. {Trop-c-l Lije, October 1914.) The Director of Agric
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