. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 410 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Decejibee 19, GLEANINGS. Practically the entire Hawaiian t-rop of sugar for 1914 is now harvested. It will run to sliglitly over ,000 .short tons, ,000 more than the previous high output. (The Louis- iana Planter, November 14, 1914.) It is possible that the final sugar crop of Cuba for 1914 may reach something like 2,G00,000 tons. Within two or tliree years Cuba will ahnost surely exceed in its sugar production the .^,000,000 ton line that is estimated generally for the Brit
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 410 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Decejibee 19, GLEANINGS. Practically the entire Hawaiian t-rop of sugar for 1914 is now harvested. It will run to sliglitly over ,000 .short tons, ,000 more than the previous high output. (The Louis- iana Planter, November 14, 1914.) It is possible that the final sugar crop of Cuba for 1914 may reach something like 2,G00,000 tons. Within two or tliree years Cuba will ahnost surely exceed in its sugar production the .^,000,000 ton line that is estimated generally for the British East Indies. (Ibid.) Colonial Reports—Annual, No. 809, .shows that the imports into the Bahamas during the year ended December 31, , were valued at £403,529 as against £358,111 in 1912. Tlie exports for the same period were £263,954 and £276,115, respectively. The export of bananas from Costa Rica during 1913 ?was 11,170,812 bunches worth £1,068,977 more than half of the total exports. The total area under cultivation in this crop was 95,400 acres. (Diplomatic and Consular Reports, Annual Series, No. 5363.) During 1913 the Gold Coast 113,239,980 lb. of cacao, valued at £2,489,218, compared with 86,568,481 lb. of a value of £1,642,733 in 1912. This increase was largely due to the fact that a greater number of farms had come into bearing; also that a large proportion of the crop of 1912-13, being late, was shipped in 1913. (Colonial Reports—Annual, No. 806.) In Bulletin 279, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, the conclusion is reached that liming has added materially to the yield of corn under every treatment, and on the untreated land. It is also stated that the conclusion seems to be justified that lime applied to the corn crop in liberal quantity has encouraged the production of nitrates for several succeeding crops. In a letter received by the Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture dated Ociwber 22, 1914, from Mr. Leslie Gordon Corrie, President
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