. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 76 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. MAiifH 1, 1913. GLEANINGS. Accompanying the Trinidad and Tobago Colonial Report for 1011-12 is a useful map of the Colony showing roads, railways, coast steamer routes, water-supplies and the different crop districts. According to the Platifers' Chronicle for December 28. lSil2. a demonstration, in London, of cookery by sound, revolutionized the ordinary method of roasting coffee. The idea is that by turning the handle of the new machine at a certain speed the beans are thrown into th
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 76 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. MAiifH 1, 1913. GLEANINGS. Accompanying the Trinidad and Tobago Colonial Report for 1011-12 is a useful map of the Colony showing roads, railways, coast steamer routes, water-supplies and the different crop districts. According to the Platifers' Chronicle for December 28. lSil2. a demonstration, in London, of cookery by sound, revolutionized the ordinary method of roasting coffee. The idea is that by turning the handle of the new machine at a certain speed the beans are thrown into the air: the heat passes through, causing the emission of certain sounds at different stages, and the coffee is quickly roasted in suspension. A copy of the Dominica rainfall returns, 1912, shows- that the mean precipitation for thirty four stations for the year was 9894 inches. Of these stations, twelve, situated on the leeward coast, show a mean return of G575 inches; six La Soye coast stations, 7919 inches; three windward coast stations ;)-94 inches, whilst the mean return for thirteen inland stations was inches. The lowest precipitation, 38'17 inches, occurred at Batalie; the highest return waa 20001 inches of rain which fell at Gleau Manioc It is stated in the Journal of the Roijal Society of Arts, for January 2-t, 1913, that the price charged in Italy for irrigation by the Canal Cavour during the summer, was at the rate of £92 per Italian modulo (that is a discharge of 22 gallons per second). A statement made in the Journal of the New Zealand D'-partment of ArjricuUure shows, that in Brazil, for over twenty years, the inhabitants have made l)anana flour and hanana cloth; whilst the lace made from the filireof the banana tree (from which the cloth is also made) is sold locally for M. a foot. It is reported in The hoard of Trade Journal, for .January 23, 1913 that during the week ended January 16, 1913, there were imported into the United Kingdom, 75,136 bales
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