. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 108 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS April i, GLEANINGS. t)\ving to abunilant rains, an uxcfllent cane crop is repoitccl from tlic coast districts of ilexico where this crop is grown. In the interior, however, rains have been .scarce, and tlic cane crop of the dry districts is stateil to be 30 per cent, lower than last year. During the week ended February Jd last, 1 ?")!>,Sfj;', of cotton (including 39 bales ]5ritish West Indian and 8 West African) were inij)orted into England. From .lan
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 108 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS April i, GLEANINGS. t)\ving to abunilant rains, an uxcfllent cane crop is repoitccl from tlic coast districts of ilexico where this crop is grown. In the interior, however, rains have been .scarce, and tlic cane crop of the dry districts is stateil to be 30 per cent, lower than last year. During the week ended February Jd last, 1 ?")!>,Sfj;', of cotton (including 39 bales ]5ritish West Indian and 8 West African) were inij)orted into England. From .laniiaiy 1 to February 20, 1908, the number of bales imported reacheii 1,218,571 (including 1,590 British West Indian and 921 bales Britisli West African). The citrate of lime cxjiorts from increasiHl from :'.(; tons in 190(1 to 119 tons during 1907. tSi'venty-nine grants of crown lands were made in St. Lucia during 1906-7. 'I'he total area alienatnl amounted to 1,197 acres. The cost of tlir St. Lucia c.,\mi lands is £1 ])er acre. Kubber is one of the most important pioducts tjf Nigeria, and during 1900, the outi)Ut amounted to .?'>,4.'U,279 tt)., valued locally at £.307,077. The chief native variety is Funtumia. The rubber, although prepared in a somewhat crude way, eonunanded a price of about ix. Gd. per lb. on the London market at ;i time when I'.razilian Para was .selling at 2'7. per I!). The hemp producers of Yucatan havi' foimed them- selves into a Joint Stock Company. The State of \ucatan lias pi-actically a monopoly of Sisal production, the annual output amounting to ()00,(tOO bales of 3()0 lb. each. A recent repoi't that, in gi-owing cotton, ijic native cultivators in Egy]it usually manure their fields at the rate of ;!,', cwt. of su|ierphosphate and IJ cwt. of nitrate of soila or sid[iliate of ammonia per acre. Over 1,000 bags of sweet 'il tolbilish (iuiana from Barbados by tlie sc'iO( ner ' t'omiade' on a recent d
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