. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 380 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. November IS, GLEANINGS. Statistics of coco-nut cultivation in the Malaya Penin- sula show that there were 82,250 acres under coco-nuts in 1915, exclusive of the Straits Settlements. The area for the Federated Malay States in 1915 was 54,822 acres, as against 58,027 acres in 19U. Bulletin No. 'Zl:l of the Agricultural Experiment ?Station, Kansas, deals with the subject of Soudan grass. It is stated that this grass makes a very palatable hay and that feeding results have been uniform
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 380 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. November IS, GLEANINGS. Statistics of coco-nut cultivation in the Malaya Penin- sula show that there were 82,250 acres under coco-nuts in 1915, exclusive of the Straits Settlements. The area for the Federated Malay States in 1915 was 54,822 acres, as against 58,027 acres in 19U. Bulletin No. 'Zl:l of the Agricultural Experiment ?Station, Kansas, deals with the subject of Soudan grass. It is stated that this grass makes a very palatable hay and that feeding results have been uniformly good. Soudan grass promises to replace a considerable portion of the millets and sorghum sowed for hay purposes in Kansas. In connexion with the information given in recent issues of this .Journal as to the control of the house fly, it may be noted that Farmem' Bulletin No. 73J^, United States Department of Agriculture, deals with fly traps and their operation. Different kinds of traps are illustrated, special ones having been designed for manure heaps Infectious abortion in cattle is dealt with in Circuhir No. .-'•'', Michigan Agricultural College Experiment Station. It is considered possible that calves may become infected through milk from infected animals. Certain results tend to indicate that children or adults may be aflected bj' the consumption of ravif milk containing the abortus bacillus. Under the heading of Three Types of Commercial Vanilla in Tahite, the Experitiient S'ation Record for August 1916, notes that the type called Mexican vanilla is , and that the type called Tahitan vanilla is closely related thereto, but that the type which has been provisionally called V. ti'irei, and which is thought to have appeared there five or six years ago from an unknown source, may be a variation or a hybird. It is said to possess qualities of commercial value. Farmers' Bulletin No. 71'), United States Department of Agriculture, deals with the measuring and mar
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