. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 268 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. August 2], GLEANINGS. According to official sources, the production of sugar in Java for the croi) of 1908 was 1,2 i 1,885 tons. The percentage of sugar manufactured, on the weight of cane ground, was 10-04. The annual report of the United States Department of Agriculture on the sugar-beet crop of that country states that this reached 3,41G,'000 tons during 1908. The average sucrose content of the crop was 1575 per cent. The imports of rice into the Uniteil States for the eleven mo
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 268 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. August 2], GLEANINGS. According to official sources, the production of sugar in Java for the croi) of 1908 was 1,2 i 1,885 tons. The percentage of sugar manufactured, on the weight of cane ground, was 10-04. The annual report of the United States Department of Agriculture on the sugar-beet crop of that country states that this reached 3,41G,'000 tons during 1908. The average sucrose content of the crop was 1575 per cent. The imports of rice into the Uniteil States for the eleven months ending May .'U were 86,600 tons, valued at i million dollars. This includes rice, rice flour, rice meal and broken rice. {Louisiana Planter, July 24, 1909.) According to the a .syndicate of Russian has definitely failed, owing to the refusal to join of M. Brodsky, the leader of Russiar. sugar producers Loudon Globe, an attempt to form sugar producers and sugar refiners The Keportof the Chief of the Uiireiu (f I'hnil Indiixtyy of the United States Department of Agriculture, states that the fruit industry of that country represents an area of -5 million , with an annual income of 1-50 million dollars. Several trials, in different , with ground nuts at the Station attached to the Agricultural School in St. Lucia have .shown that this cro|) should be .sown at a time which will (>nsure the rijiening of the nuts in dry weather. The statement is made, in tlie I'lLi/lp/tlne A;/rici(ltnral Review for February 1909, that the present yearly rubbi'r production of the world is 70,000 tons. .Most of the rubber comes from the forests of Brazil, which pro- duced 41,000 tons in 1907. It is stated in \\\^ Louisiana I'lante, for July 31, 1909, that weather suited to the growth of sugarcane thioughout the Louisiana district has recently prevailed. The tempera- ture has been comparatively high, and there have been frequent .showers, so that good growt
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