. Agricultural news . ll be seen that the spiny white fly must be carefullywatched for in the tropical Americas, including the WestIndies, and especially in the citrus-growing regions. Itsgreat rapidity of dispersion under favourable conditions makesit a potential pest, which, given a fair start, is capable ofinflicting considerable damage in a comparatively short time. TONS CANE PER TON SUGAR. A modern sugar factory is capable of recovering S9° per cent, of the .sucrose in the cane in the formof commercial (96°) sugar. The manner in which the workof the factory is influenced
. Agricultural news . ll be seen that the spiny white fly must be carefullywatched for in the tropical Americas, including the WestIndies, and especially in the citrus-growing regions. Itsgreat rapidity of dispersion under favourable conditions makesit a potential pest, which, given a fair start, is capable ofinflicting considerable damage in a comparatively short time. TONS CANE PER TON SUGAR. A modern sugar factory is capable of recovering S9° per cent, of the .sucrose in the cane in the formof commercial (96°) sugar. The manner in which the workof the factory is influenced by the saccharine richness of thecane is shown in the following table, which is on th*t the factory turns out 87 l>. of 9() sugar forevery 100 ib. of sugar in the cane: — Per cent, sucrose .Sugar (96°) Tons cane in cane. from 100 cane. per ton sugar. 10 8-70 11oO 11 10-45 12 10-45 1131 8-85 14 12-18 8-21 15 1305 7-66 16 ? 13-92 7-19 12 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS January 13, 191;. Experiments conducted in ilontserrat show very clearlythe advantage of providing supports when one of the objectsin cultivating the fleshy pod bean ( jic-cliylohium)and the white velvet bean (S. Deeringicnium) is the pro-duction of a crop of pods as well as a green dressing. In thecase of the white velvet bean, the staked plants yielded atthe rate of 2,028 h. of shelled beans per acre comparedwith only 520 lb. from the unstaked section. Similar resultswere obtained in the case of the fleshy pod bean. GLEANINGS. According to the Interimtioiial ISuijar Journal forNovember 19IG, the European sugar beet crop estimateshowed a reduction, being some 60,000 tons less than appears that the total produclion for 191(vl7 will be5,150,000 tons. The Kangpur lime as ijrown in Montserrat, has anaverage weight of 61 grammes and yields 50 per cent, ofjuice. The fruit resembles \\\ appearance a coarse-skinnedtangerine, and tends to cling to the tree and not to dr
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