. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 364 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. November 17, 1906,. GLEANINGS. A sample of lemon grass oil was recently sent from Montserrat to brokers in London, who valued it at i'ld. They asked for a shipment of 500 lb., which they thought might be of readily. The Agricultural Superintendent at St. V incent announces for the benefit of growers of Sea Island cotton that the usual proportion of lint to seed-cotton is at the rate of 23 Itj. to 26 lb. of the former to every 100 tt). of the latter. Unless the cotton is thoroug
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 364 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. November 17, 1906,. GLEANINGS. A sample of lemon grass oil was recently sent from Montserrat to brokers in London, who valued it at i'ld. They asked for a shipment of 500 lb., which they thought might be of readily. The Agricultural Superintendent at St. V incent announces for the benefit of growers of Sea Island cotton that the usual proportion of lint to seed-cotton is at the rate of 23 Itj. to 26 lb. of the former to every 100 tt). of the latter. Unless the cotton is thoroughly dried and well picked beforehand,, there is usually a loss in ginning ranging from 2 lb. to -5 lb. per 100 lb. of seed-cotton. The imports of bananas into the United States for the eight months ending August 1906 were of the value of $8,621,974, as compared with !?7,447,144 during the corresponding period of 190-5. The countries contributing are : Central America, 83,786,981 ; British West Indies, $2,957,-523; Cuba, -$1,149,056; South America,-?309,404 ;. other countries, !i?419,010. A three-weeks' course of lectures for operating distillers and managers in direct conti ? il of distilleries was held at the Government Laboratory in -lamaica from October 23 to November 13. This is the .second course of the kind held in Jamaica. The Imperial Department of Agriculture has been asked to supply the Queensland Department of Agriculture with seeds of superior sorts of star apples and custard apples. The Commissioner would be glad if any one having trees of really good kinds of these fruits would forward seeds. The of sugar from Barbados during the period January 1 to November 5, 1906, amounted to 49,864 tons, as compared with an output of 41,043 tons during the same period of 1905. Similar figures for molasses are 61,036 puncheons and 38,653 puncheons, respectively. The islands of Zanzibar and Pemba approxi- mately 90 per cent, of the clove crop of the world. This
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