. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 156 THE AGllICULTUUAL NEWS. Mav 13, GLEANINGS. The exports of rubber from Para, Manaos, Icjuitos and Itacoatiara, via Para, during 1910 were 37,153 tons. In 1909 the export was 38,963 tons, and in 1908, 37,013 tons. The Li-eirard Islands (rauttc, for March 23, 1911, con- tains a notice which shows that a patent is being applied for, in respect of a machine for extracting cold drawn essential oil from citrus fruits. The applicants are Messrs. W. A. D. Allport and T. J. W. C. Davenport, of Dominica. An up-to-d
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 156 THE AGllICULTUUAL NEWS. Mav 13, GLEANINGS. The exports of rubber from Para, Manaos, Icjuitos and Itacoatiara, via Para, during 1910 were 37,153 tons. In 1909 the export was 38,963 tons, and in 1908, 37,013 tons. The Li-eirard Islands (rauttc, for March 23, 1911, con- tains a notice which shows that a patent is being applied for, in respect of a machine for extracting cold drawn essential oil from citrus fruits. The applicants are Messrs. W. A. D. Allport and T. J. W. C. Davenport, of Dominica. An up-to-date factory, equipped with British machinery, for dealing with ramie fibre, has been completed at Kow-kong, in Kwangtung, China. The factory will also make grass cloth. At Shahow, on the West Itiver, a large silk filature, to be equipped with British machinery, is being erected. {Tlia TcrtiU' Mtrcwtj, March 4, 1911.) A report received from the Curator of the Botanic Station, Dominica, shows that the lime plantations in the island are flowering well, and that the prospects of the com- ing crop are good. A similar report from the Agricultural Instructor, Tortohi, indicates that like favourable prospects for the lime crop also exist in the Virgin Islands. A communication has l:>een received from the Superin- tendent of Agriculture, Grenada, to the eilect that enquiries are being made in that island as to the possibility of the disposal by sale of the seeds of the grugru palm (Acroromia lasiospatha), and that information is required as to the prices that will be obtainable if such disposal can be made. The AijricaHural Bulletin of the Straits and Federated j\[alat/ States, for February 1911, approximate figures for the area of land under rubber cultivation in the various parts of the Colony. The total is stated to be about 100,000 , and it is pointed out that this is fairly large, consider- ing the class of country in which the rubber is planted. Information forward
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