. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 316 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. OCTOHKR 3, GLEANINGS. InilM)i-t iliity was funnerly levifd mi all livu stock l)riMiglit into Jainaicii, but the duty on stock imported for breeding purposes has kitely been removed. This amounted to £:^ per head on liorses, £2 on eattle, £1 on asses, and ))er liead ?on sheej), goats, and pigs. The rainfall at .Montserrat during 1907-8 was very deficient in iiuantity. At the Botanic Station only -51'83 inches were recorded as comfiared with (5S'18 inches regis- tered in tlie
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 316 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. OCTOHKR 3, GLEANINGS. InilM)i-t iliity was funnerly levifd mi all livu stock l)riMiglit into Jainaicii, but the duty on stock imported for breeding purposes has kitely been removed. This amounted to £:^ per head on liorses, £2 on eattle, £1 on asses, and ))er liead ?on sheej), goats, and pigs. The rainfall at .Montserrat during 1907-8 was very deficient in iiuantity. At the Botanic Station only -51'83 inches were recorded as comfiared with (5S'18 inches regis- tered in tlie previous year. The higliest fall was recorded at "Woodlands—77".jS inches, and tlie — 37'3-t inclies— at Whites. The amount of cacao (produced in the island) sliippyd from Trinidad during August of the present year was 1,810,01 G lb. This briTigs the total (juantity exiiorted, from .January 1 to the ei>d of August, up to 3-1,763,102 lb., as ?compared with 30,100,066 lb. shipped in the corresponding eight months of 1907. With the object of extending a knowledge <4 innjroved .agricultural methods in the country, the (iovernment nf I'crn .started the National School of Agricidture at Lima. This has lately undergone furtlier development by the addition of a Farming School in conni'.xion with the earlier establishment. The Farming School has for its object the training in practical agriculture of estate managers and overseers. The report for 1907-8 of the Director of the Royal iiotanic (iardens, Ceylon, states that further extensions of the rubber acreage in the island continued during the year tinder review, and the total area planted now amounts to ,000 acres. The exports of rubber showed an increase of nearlv 100 per cent., and for the year 1907-8 were valued at nearly £225,000. A stall for the .sale to farmers and others of economic jilants from the British Guiana Botanic Gardens is kept up in the Stabroek Market, Georgetown. During the thre
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