. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 140 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. App,il 27, The work in the Botanic and Experiment stations, St. Kitts, received serious interference during last month. through drouglit. At the Experiment Station, the plots were kept clean, and in the Station the plants were main- tnined alive by vi-atering them. Much of the eft'ort during the month was concerned with the important work of cotton peleclion GLEANINGS. An article in thg Union Gazette of South Africa for January 19, 1912, shows that last year 1,018,630 bags
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 140 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. App,il 27, The work in the Botanic and Experiment stations, St. Kitts, received serious interference during last month. through drouglit. At the Experiment Station, the plots were kept clean, and in the Station the plants were main- tnined alive by vi-atering them. Much of the eft'ort during the month was concerned with the important work of cotton peleclion GLEANINGS. An article in thg Union Gazette of South Africa for January 19, 1912, shows that last year 1,018,630 bags (of 200 lb. net) of maize were shipped from British South Africa. The amount in 1910 was 1,7GO,20S bags. The distribution of plants from the St. Lucia Botanic Station continues to indicate a maintained interest in lime- growing, for during March it included 1,350 lime plants. There were sent out 1,6G1 plants altogether, of which 300 were cacao plants. Seventy-one packets of seeds were also distributed. The distribution of plants the Botanic Station, Dominica, during March last amounted to 1,463, including; limes 1,050, Para rubber 300, cacao 50, nutmegs IS, grafted mangoes 4, miscellaneous 41. The total distribution from this Station during the twelve months ended March 31, 1912, ?was 76,363 plants. The Board of Trade Jomnal for M^arch 7, 1912, showed that the number of bales of cotton imported into the United Kingdom, up to the end of February last, was 1,303,714, including 1,518 bales of British Weal Indian, 90 British West African, 5,936 British East African, and 396 liales Foreign East African. In connexion with the importation and erection of an oil •engine and mill for the pur))Ose of assisting in the work of of sugar-cane experimentation in Antigua, it is reported that this machinery is now available for use, and that the engine has shown satisfactory behaviour in a trial run con- ducted during last month. With reference to Phylloxera, the well-known parasite of
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