. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 236 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. July 2-2, GLEANINGS. A report of the work done at the Botanic and Experiment Stations, 8t. Lucia, during last niontli, shows that the planting was eftected of 1^ acres of Para rubber, while the distribution of Para rubber plants for use in the island reached the number of 490. The report of the Government Veterinary Surgeon, St. Vincent, for last month, shows that of sixty-nine deaths of animals, reported in the island, none were caused by anthrax. There was only one case in which
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 236 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. July 2-2, GLEANINGS. A report of the work done at the Botanic and Experiment Stations, 8t. Lucia, during last niontli, shows that the planting was eftected of 1^ acres of Para rubber, while the distribution of Para rubber plants for use in the island reached the number of 490. The report of the Government Veterinary Surgeon, St. Vincent, for last month, shows that of sixty-nine deaths of animals, reported in the island, none were caused by anthrax. There was only one case in which the cause of death was not , but to this there is attached no of the presence of the The di-itribution of plants from the Dominica Botanic Station during June 1911 was as follows: limes 6,725, spine- limes 1,050, cacao 420, grafted cacao 100, budded citrus plants 86, Para rubber plants 200, miscellaneous plants 432. The total number of [ilants distributed from the station during the month was 9,013. The Government Gazette of the Federated ^^alay States publishes information to the eii'ect that the amount of culti- vated rubVier exported during February and March 1911 was 1,490,849 ft. and 1,916,219 lb., respectively. In the period January to March 1911 the output was 4,736,238 lb.: for the similar period in 1910 the are 2,396,586 lb. The Agricultural Superintendent of St, Kitts states in a report that the young sugar-cane and cotton crops in the island have made good progress during June, and that they were in good condition at the end of the month. The cotton worm {Alabama an/Ulacea) has appeared in a few fields on two estates, but has been kept in check by the use of Paris green. The plants distributed from the Botanic Station, Antigua, during last month were as follows: limes 500, cocoa-nuts 200, red cedar lS3, mahogany 72, i)alnis 2. It is worthy of mention, further, that 998 .seed cocoa-nuts weie imported at the same time for
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