. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 220 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. JuLV 4, GLEANINGS. An interesting publication has been received in the form of the Annual Report of the Government Geologist, South Australia. Of special interest is that section of the report dealing with surface contours, isopotential lines and the underground portion of hydraulic surface. The contributions of the United States National Her- barium, Vol. XVIII, Part II, deals with new or noteworthy plants from Columbia and Central America. The sections dealing with the Sapodillas
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 220 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. JuLV 4, GLEANINGS. An interesting publication has been received in the form of the Annual Report of the Government Geologist, South Australia. Of special interest is that section of the report dealing with surface contours, isopotential lines and the underground portion of hydraulic surface. The contributions of the United States National Her- barium, Vol. XVIII, Part II, deals with new or noteworthy plants from Columbia and Central America. The sections dealing with the Sapodillas {Acras spp.) and with Sapiiiin spp. and Lnciinia are of considerable interest to the West Indies. Information has been received setting out the regulations of the Pure Seeds Act recently passed in Queensland. Under this law, low grade seeds may be sold but they must be seeds in which the germination capacity is not more than 50 per cent, of the amount set forth. Low grade seeds must be contained in branded bags or packages. A communication has arrived which describes the extensive nature of the live stock exhibit at the Panama- Pacific International Exhibition. The exhibits of this section will be educational as well as competitive. They will present, in exhaustive measure, a complete exposition of the most modern breeding and cultural methods. An article appears in the Journal d'Agriculture Tropi- cah for February 1914, on the cultivation of rice on dry soils with a special view to the adaptation of the crop to the agricultural conditions obtaining in the cofteegrowing districts of Brazil. Piico also con.^idoied as a rotation crop in which capacity it can be grovrn in a cyclu with tnbarco, cntton, siigar-cane and other crops. In the notes on agriculture, in the Demerara Chronicle for June 5, 1914, reference is made to the fact that Liberian coffee has on various occasions been stated to possess an infprior Havour to the 'creole'. This idea has arisen, it is believed, throu
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