. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS, AuGLST 31, An account of sisal-growing experiments that are being conducted in Curasao has been given recently by the United (States Consul. The results appear so far to be favourable: the phints have survived an abnormally dry period, and have given sisal of excellent quality. In consequence of the suc- cess, a comiiany called the First Sisal Culture Co. of Curai^ao, has been formed for the exploitation of the fibre-- in the island. GLEANINGS. The lievisla Azumreya for 1911-12 states
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS, AuGLST 31, An account of sisal-growing experiments that are being conducted in Curasao has been given recently by the United (States Consul. The results appear so far to be favourable: the phints have survived an abnormally dry period, and have given sisal of excellent quality. In consequence of the suc- cess, a comiiany called the First Sisal Culture Co. of Curai^ao, has been formed for the exploitation of the fibre-- in the island. GLEANINGS. The lievisla Azumreya for 1911-12 states that it is expected that from 20,000 to ,000 tons of 9G° sugar will be exported from Mexico to the United Kingdom during this year. In the season 1911,158,627 tons of sugar, 83,348 tons of molasses and 49,107 tons of panela (a brown sugar) tvere produced in Mexico, It is shown in The Board of Tradt Jtuinal for July 4, 191'2, that the number of bales of cotton imported into the 1 nitcd Kingdom during the twenty-six weeks ended June 27 was 2,830,474, including 5,620 British West Indian, 5,213 British West African, 17,523 British East Afiican, and 1,044 bales Foreign East African. A copy of a bulletin on the condition of crops in I'.cypt on July 1, 1912, has been received from the Director- f ;eneral of the Department of Agriculture. This shows that the condition of the cotton, sugar-cane and melon crops at that date was well above the average, while that of wheat and rice was somewhat below the average. The AaricuUural News of FelTuary 3, 1912, p, 41, coro- tained a note on a suggestion that has been made to the effect that tobacco seed might be utilized as a source of oil: the- seeds contain 15 percent, of a drying oil. As is pointed out in the Bulletin of the Imperial Jusfitufc for April 1912, p. 153, the ordinary conditions of tobacco cultivation are nc>t such as to produce tobacco seed in quantity, so that the suggestion does not appear to 1 ^e practicable. During the
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