Agricultural news . re the only 2)laces where bananas indbreadfruit were grown in abundance, and they found a rea<lysale for these articles. It would appear that the supply ot prov-isions in Grenada never exceeds the demand for consumptionas such, and befDre the peasantry take to making flour or wi-^.xXthere must be a considerably greater production. In this connexion Mr. 3. C. Moore, Superintendent ofAgriculture, observes: Although the quantity of ground pro-visions produced iu Grenada during the past year has consid-reably exceeded the output of former years, there is at presentno surplus
Agricultural news . re the only 2)laces where bananas indbreadfruit were grown in abundance, and they found a rea<lysale for these articles. It would appear that the supply ot prov-isions in Grenada never exceeds the demand for consumptionas such, and befDre the peasantry take to making flour or wi-^.xXthere must be a considerably greater production. In this connexion Mr. 3. C. Moore, Superintendent ofAgriculture, observes: Although the quantity of ground pro-visions produced iu Grenada during the past year has consid-reably exceeded the output of former years, there is at presentno surplus available for converting into for future usebecause more provisions are being consumed in place ofimported foods. This condition operates in maintaining thehigh prices of provisions which continue to show an upwardrather than a downward tendency, a result which might notat first sight hiyc been expected as the outcome ofincreased production. 725 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS Apktl 21, PLANT DISEASES. A THE YEAR 1916. Reports on the prevalence of plant diseases have nowcome in from the Agricultural Officers in the chain ofislands from Tortcjla tn Grenada, and may usefully becompared and suu]n)arLzed here They will eventually beprinted in full as usual in the West Indian Bulletin. ILiMATK. Climate, of whirh the eftecti\f variablecomponents in this region are rainfall and wind, is evermore clearly .seen to be the chief determining factor in theincidence of the established diseases. Given the rainfall andits distribution through the year, one might now with fairaccuracy deduce the extent of their occurrence under theparticular conditions of each island. During the year under review the rainfall on the wholereached a good standard without being , butabnormally heavy rains were general in October and Xovem-ber. some of the islands, particularly in St. Vincent,there was something like a deluge in that period. Heav) winds were experienced in August,
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