. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 28 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. January IG, GLEANINGS. Tlie Maltese Jenny lately iinpoited into Antigua has given birth to a fine young Jack which is in thriving condition. The death of the i)ure-bred Short-hoin J!ull at the Skenett's Farm, Antigua, reported in the Agiii-tdlurul News (Vol. II, |). 108). We learn that a fine bull calf, ol)tained from this animal, is now a month old and weighs 115 R). A second bull calf from the same animal is being reared on a private plantation. The Transvaal Aijricidtiual Jo
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 28 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. January IG, GLEANINGS. Tlie Maltese Jenny lately iinpoited into Antigua has given birth to a fine young Jack which is in thriving condition. The death of the i)ure-bred Short-hoin J!ull at the Skenett's Farm, Antigua, reported in the Agiii-tdlurul News (Vol. II, |). 108). We learn that a fine bull calf, ol)tained from this animal, is now a month old and weighs 115 R). A second bull calf from the same animal is being reared on a private plantation. The Transvaal Aijricidtiual Journal suggests the following for destroying fowl lice : —' Put a little plug tobacco in .some hot water. Let the .solution stand over- night in a covered vessel, and then spray all over the body. Repeat in a week if necessary.' The India-ruhlnr Jdnrnal of December i\, 1903, has the following note on West Indian rubber:—'Trinidad exported ,412 lb. of balata, worth £2,888, in 1902. In the same year, Hondui'as exported rubber to the value of 814,163, while (Julja imported rubber goods to the value of 8134,995, as against 8148,398, in 1901'. About the middle of iJecember last the Diamond jilantation in British Guiana completed a record crop of 12,525 tons of sugar. Among the seedling canes under cultivation are 600 acres of Barbados cane, 208. Over the whole of the crop it is stated that ' the seedling canes have averaged considerably more sugar per acre than the BouHmiu cane.' The following notice, signed by the Hon'ble C. A. Shaiid, of Nevis, ajipeared in the .S7. Christopher A(/"frti$er of December 22, 1903:— 'Cotton growers are warned against se|)arating the cotton seeds from the lint by hand, as hand-picked cotton is very inferior to that ginned by machinery owing to the uneven staple resulting from the fi>rmer process.' In the Colonial Rejiorl on the Jiritish Solomon Ixl(tnilears that oil of gai-lic is a strong germicide, permeating the whole
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