. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 348 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS October 26, GLEANINGS. The plant distribatinn from the Dominica Botanic Station during September reached 4,057. There were in- cluded in it: limes , cacao 569, budded citrus 97, Para rubber 60, 12, grafted mangoes 4, and miscellaneous plants 15. Returns issued by the Ceylon Government show that the exports of rubber in June 1912 amounted to 681,259 lb., as compared with 449,904 Bb. in June 1911. The shipments of rubber in the year ended June 1912 were 10,094,018 lb.; i
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 348 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS October 26, GLEANINGS. The plant distribatinn from the Dominica Botanic Station during September reached 4,057. There were in- cluded in it: limes , cacao 569, budded citrus 97, Para rubber 60, 12, grafted mangoes 4, and miscellaneous plants 15. Returns issued by the Ceylon Government show that the exports of rubber in June 1912 amounted to 681,259 lb., as compared with 449,904 Bb. in June 1911. The shipments of rubber in the year ended June 1912 were 10,094,018 lb.; in the previous similar period they were 5,428,080 lb. In September, the plants distributed from the Antigua IBotanic Station included: limes 1,800, Eucalyptus 531, coco- nuts 458, mahogany 129, ornamental plants 302, and miscellaneous economic plants 47. There were also sent out 42,000 sweet potato cuttings, .20 Jb. of cotton seed. 197i Jb. of onion seed and The C'u'jii Eeiitw for September 1912 gives a table which shows that the chief exports of fruit and fruit products from Porto Kico to the United States during 1912 were valued as follows; grape fruit .^524,976, oranges ?'$584,368, pine-apples $683,801, lemons -13,131, limes ^^960, canned pine-apples 1258,671. Shipments of honey to the value of ?142, were also sent. In common with other parts of the West Indies, Domi- nica experienced very dry conditions during last month, when the rainfall at the Botanic Station was 332 inches whereas the average rainfall for September, during a period of eighteen years, is 9 26 inches. The precipitation during the first nine months of this year has been 38 63 inches; in the similar period of last year it was 7612 inches. It is reported by at Adana, Turkeyin- Asia, that the estimate for the cotton crop of the present season is about 100,0(*0 bales, as compared with 80,000 bales last year. It is expected that about 4,000 or 5,000 bales of the output will be American cotto
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