Agricultural news . r interestsabroad, and the development of rubber growing inAmerica. He touched briefly upon American enter-prise in the ownership and maintenance of rubberplantations in the l)ntch East Indies and elsewhere,and emphasized the possibilities of the tropical andsub-tropical areas within their national thought more attention should be given to raisingrubber in Texas and Mexico, and he referred to the lostopportunities in connexion with establishing an Am-ri-can rubber industry in the Philippines. There is nodoubt, therefore, that at present the L^nited States is
Agricultural news . r interestsabroad, and the development of rubber growing inAmerica. He touched briefly upon American enter-prise in the ownership and maintenance of rubberplantations in the l)ntch East Indies and elsewhere,and emphasized the possibilities of the tropical andsub-tropical areas within their national thought more attention should be given to raisingrubber in Texas and Mexico, and he referred to the lostopportunities in connexion with establishing an Am-ri-can rubber industry in the Philippines. There is nodoubt, therefore, that at present the L^nited States isentirely dependent upon foreign countries f t its supplyof rubber, more so even than Great Britian is dependent-upon the L^nited States for its supply of cotton. It isprobable that in the future, interesting developmentswill take place in regad to foreign countries makingevery effort to secure and control their own supplies oftaw material from the tropics as far as possible. 90 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. March 24, INSECT NOTES. THE SUGAR-CANE FROGHOPPER IN GRENADA. Froghoppers were first recorded from Grenada in 1895by Uhler, under the name of Tomaspis pictipennis, but atthat time they were apparently of no economic 1912 they were found on Para grass, and specimens were«ent through the Imperial Department to the Board ofAgriculture in Trinidad. Mr. Irich. the Entomologist,considered them to be different from the Trinidad, species, thenknown as Tomaspis tiaria, and was of opinion that this insectmight be capable of attacking sugar-cane. Towards the endof 1916, froghoppers were reported as doing considerabledamage to sugar-cane on one estate. Mr. C. B. Williams the Entomologist in charge of thefrogbopper investigations in Trinidad paid a visit to Grenadain December 191G, and the results of his investigations weresubsequently publishi d in a 1 rief report. Mr. Williams,after comparing a number of the froghoppers from Grenadawith the Trinidad species attacking sug
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