. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 140 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. May 3, GLEANINGS. The Board of Agi'iiulturf. Trinidad and Tobago. is offering prizes to the value of $ for the eiicoiirage- nient of good cultivation of cacao and vegetables by the peasant proprietoi's and conti'actors of Tobago. (The Pm-t-of-Spain Gazette. April 19. 1919.) According to the Demerara Daily Argosy, April 15, 1919. the Board of Agi-icultvire has just made an order proliibiting the importation of . plants, earth, etc. from Trinidad, tliis jjroliibition being
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 140 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. May 3, GLEANINGS. The Board of Agi'iiulturf. Trinidad and Tobago. is offering prizes to the value of $ for the eiicoiirage- nient of good cultivation of cacao and vegetables by the peasant proprietoi's and conti'actors of Tobago. (The Pm-t-of-Spain Gazette. April 19. 1919.) According to the Demerara Daily Argosy, April 15, 1919. the Board of Agi-icultvire has just made an order proliibiting the importation of . plants, earth, etc. from Trinidad, tliis jjroliibition being made on account of the presence of the froghni)per pest in that ishmd. The Pmt-oJ-Spain Gazette. April 18. 1919. says that it may not be generally known that tlie total expen- ditm-e of the Department of Agriculture is about £2().d0(* per amium. the revenue being about ±'12,000, making the total cost to the colony about £8,000 a year for gardens, fai-ms, laboratory, exiierimental stations, and the two Gf>vernment According to Sugar. April 1919. great interest is being taken in tlie extensinn of sugar-cane cidtivation in ISouth Florida. It is contended that ^vith modei-n methods of culture and pi-odiiction, the South Florida lands would yield as much sugar per acre as those of Cuba, but that large centrals and plantations are the only solution of the South Florida sugar problem, as the day of small mills is passed except for the of syruj). A leaflet dated Febniai-y 4. 1919. by the Department of Lanfl Recrirds and Agricidture, Assam, states that, on the average of the five yeare ending 191fi-17. the area under cotton ui Assam represents about 0"2 per cent, of tlie total area under cotton in India. The total outturn of the present crop of clean cotton, from an estimated area of 33,000 , amounts to 12,1)00 bales as against bales last year. The is due to excessive rain in August and Septembei'. At a meeting of t
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