. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. i'- "^ ;. Attention is called in Thr Times for April 25, 1911, to the reformed method of reading the barometer which will be introduced into the daily waather reports next month. The principle of the change will be the adoption of absolute units for barometric pressure in place of mercury inches. The absolute unit is the dyne per square centimetre. As this unit is exceedingly small, a practical unit one million times as great (megadyne) has been suggested and will be used in the daily weather re
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. i'- "^ ;. Attention is called in Thr Times for April 25, 1911, to the reformed method of reading the barometer which will be introduced into the daily waather reports next month. The principle of the change will be the adoption of absolute units for barometric pressure in place of mercury inches. The absolute unit is the dyne per square centimetre. As this unit is exceedingly small, a practical unit one million times as great (megadyne) has been suggested and will be used in the daily weather reports. Colonial Reports, Miscellaneous No. 88, is composed of a selection of reports from . the scientific and technical department of the Imperial Institute, the publication under notice (No. 5) being devoted to subjects of oil seeds, oils, fats and waxes that have been received for examination during the past jear from different parts of the Empire. The Experiment Station Record for February 1914 coniains a note on the propagation of cotton plants by slips. Id this method herbiceous slips are pricked out in the hot bed? or greenhouse. The plants from which the slips are taken are removed from the fields to the green-house late in the season and profuse budding is induced. Der Pjianzer for March 1914 publishes an article on the kapok tree describing the varieties, pests, prices of seed and the preparation and shipment of the cotton. In another article the coagulation of Manihot latex is dealt with and various methods A short note includes an account of the cost of a factory for desiccated coconuts. Statistics concerning the California orange and lemon crop, published in the fifty-ninth annual report of the California State Board of Agriculture, 1912, show that in 1896 the imports of oranges into California from Mexico, the AVest Indies and Italy were worth §2,691,, whilst in 1912 the value of the exports of oranges from California •was $3,022, compared w
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