Agricultural news . ore the war with between one-fifth andone-sixth of our imports of wheat. The expansion ofcultivation has been very marked during recent years. Theaverage area under wheat cultivation in India duringthe last five years of the last century was rather morethan 22^ million acres; the preliminary estimate for thislast season, 1916-17, was 33 million acres, an increaseof nearly 50 per cent. The fact that the fluctuations inthe area under a single crop in India may be measured inmillions of acres from year to year is in itself a strikingindication of the scale on which Indian agri
Agricultural news . ore the war with between one-fifth andone-sixth of our imports of wheat. The expansion ofcultivation has been very marked during recent years. Theaverage area under wheat cultivation in India duringthe last five years of the last century was rather morethan 22^ million acres; the preliminary estimate for thislast season, 1916-17, was 33 million acres, an increaseof nearly 50 per cent. The fact that the fluctuations inthe area under a single crop in India may be measured inmillions of acres from year to year is in itself a strikingindication of the scale on which Indian agriculture ispractised. The average yield, however, of this last yearswheat crop is estimated at only about 11 bushels per acre,so that it will be seen how much may be hoped from theefforts which are being made by the Imperial and ProvincialDepartments of Agriculture to introduce improved varietiesof wheat, efforts which have already begun to be attended bygratifying success. 348 THE AGRICULTUEAL NEWS November 3, The Tootal Bioadhurst Lee Company has decided to setaside £10,000 a year for five years for the promotion ofresearch and education. According to Thu Times, the provision-al committee on research and education for the cotton indus-try will, at the close of the current holiday season, issue aprospectus of the new organization This definite industrialresearch federation of the cotton trade will be followed bythe establishment of institutes and laboratories. {Nature,August 23, 1917.) GLEANINGS. In the grinding season just closed Porto Eico has pro-duced the largest crop of sugar recorded in the history ofthe island, it having been 502,398 tons of sugar. (TheLouisiana Planter, September 1, 1917.) Guinea corn is a grand crop for dry districts, and itgives far more green forage per acre than Indian corn,because it grows up again. The Journal of (he Society, July 1917, says; We have had Guineacorn grazed out by cattle six times, yet it grew up againan
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