. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 76 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Makch 5, GLEANINGS. On aerount of unfavourable weather conditions in C'uha, it is estimated that the sugar crop will be between i,4(.)0,000 tons and 1,600,000 tons; thus the output will not exceed that of the previous season. An estimate of the Egyptian cotton crop for the season 1909-10 gives it as about 541 million pounds, from 1,600,000 acres, valued at £"2"2,000,000. In the preceding season, the similar figures were, approximately, 67S million pounds, 1,600,000 acres a
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 76 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Makch 5, GLEANINGS. On aerount of unfavourable weather conditions in C'uha, it is estimated that the sugar crop will be between i,4(.)0,000 tons and 1,600,000 tons; thus the output will not exceed that of the previous season. An estimate of the Egyptian cotton crop for the season 1909-10 gives it as about 541 million pounds, from 1,600,000 acres, valued at £"2"2,000,000. In the preceding season, the similar figures were, approximately, 67S million pounds, 1,600,000 acres and £20,000,000. Messrs. C. J. Dams it Co., of 121 Newgate Street, London, , have recently brought out glass cups for rubber collection. These are of different registered patterns and sizes, in white and dark green glass, and are adapted for collecting either at the base of the tree, or on the trunk. The number of bales nf cotton imported into the United Kingdom during the fifty-two weeks ended December 30, 1909, was 4,200,742. This included 6, bales of British West Indian, 12,715 bales of British West African, 11,702 bales of British East African, and 326 bales of Foreign East African, cotton. (Board oj Trach Joiunal, January 6, 1910.) According to the Manc/nsfo- Courier the quantities of West Indian bananas sent during 1909 to .Manchester, Bristol and Southampton, were 1,937,548 bunches, 1,935,001 bunches, and 122,231 bunches, respectivelj*. Of Canary bananas, during the same period, Liverpool received 1,715,000 bunches, and London 1,441,'.)36 bunches. At the ceremonies which took place in connexion with the celebration, at Bray, of Arbor Day in Ireland, on November 6 last, his Excellency Lord Aberdeen laid special stress on the need for more extensive tree-growing in Ireland, and insisted on the advantages to be gained from the planting of both ornamental and economic trees. An advance prospectus has been received of the Man- chester Industrial Exhibition, which is
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