. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 12 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. January 6, GLEANINGS. The Textile .Vernny for October 21, 1911. states that the Russian cotton crop amounted to about 900,000 bales, which is a decrease on the ijuantity of the previous year by 50,000 bales. ' It is reported by H. M. Consul at Para that the exports of rubber from Para, Manaos, Iquitos, and Itacoatiara dur- ing the crop year ending June -SO, 1910-11, were respectively as follows: 14,976,291, 10,088,277, 2,371,-572 and 96,.566 kilos., making a total of 33,-532,706 kil
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 12 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. January 6, GLEANINGS. The Textile .Vernny for October 21, 1911. states that the Russian cotton crop amounted to about 900,000 bales, which is a decrease on the ijuantity of the previous year by 50,000 bales. ' It is reported by H. M. Consul at Para that the exports of rubber from Para, Manaos, Iquitos, and Itacoatiara dur- ing the crop year ending June -SO, 1910-11, were respectively as follows: 14,976,291, 10,088,277, 2,371,-572 and 96,.566 kilos., making a total of 33,-532,706 kilos- Information has been supplied by the German Consul in Santo Domingo, to the Kachrii-hten fiir Handel und Industrie, to the effect that the amount of cacao exported from the Republic in January to June 1911, was 13,200 metric tons. The quantity for the previous similar period was 11,750 metric tons. The V/wmical Trade Journal, 1911, p. 74, states that the figures published by the Nitrate Syndicate show that the production of nitrate of soda in 1910 was larger by 350,253 tons than in 1909, the output being 2,436,182 tons. The average price in Europe during the former year is estimated to be about £1 lower than in 190S. Information from the Agricultural Superintendent of St. Vincent shows that in November last," 2,000 Para rubber seeds were received by the Agricultural Depart- ment, one half of which were sown in the nursery at the Station and the rest sent to Three Rivers estate. At the time of reporting, all the seed was germinating well. An abstract is contained, in the Journal of the Chemical Soriety, 1911, p. 430, of a paper which describes experiments which showed that applications of starch and sucrose to the soil, each separately at the rate of 1 ton per acre, caused large decreases in the yield of barley. The treated soil was sub- jected to examination, and it was found that it contained a largely increased growth of bacteria and moulds. At the end of November l
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