. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. IIG THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. April IS, WEST INDIAN FRUIT COCOA-NUT CULTIVATION. The Brazilian journal El Hacienda recently contained a lengthy article dealing with the cultivation, manuring, etc., of cocoa-nut plantations. Some of the points dealt with are worthy of reproduction. In the nursery where the soecllings are groAxn, it is recommended that the nuts be planted, base uppermost, in raised banks of earth, the nuts being placed quite close to each other. Germination takes place in about four or five month
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. IIG THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. April IS, WEST INDIAN FRUIT COCOA-NUT CULTIVATION. The Brazilian journal El Hacienda recently contained a lengthy article dealing with the cultivation, manuring, etc., of cocoa-nut plantations. Some of the points dealt with are worthy of reproduction. In the nursery where the soecllings are groAxn, it is recommended that the nuts be planted, base uppermost, in raised banks of earth, the nuts being placed quite close to each other. Germination takes place in about four or five months, and transplanting may be carried out when the plants have three or four leaves. The young trees are set out at distances of from to 28 feet each way. The more fertile the soil, the greater the distance at which they may be set, since growth is more rapid. The holes dug to receive the cocoa-nut plants should be about ;3 feet in diameter, and it is advantageous to half till the hole with manure, or earth mi.\ed with ashes, (irowth is more raj)id in a fairly loose soil. In dry seasons or dry districts it will be necessary to water the young plants regu- larly, and indeed the tree is one that always repays atten- tion to provide a good supply of water. Depth of soil is very favourable to good growth of the cocoa-nut. For the first two or three years after planting, the cultivator may with advantage raise other rrops, sucli as maize, cassava, ground nuts, etc., between the of palms. If the last-named crop is grown and ploughed, in, tlicie will be a considerable gain to the fertility of the soil. I tegular cultivation of the land din-ing the early years of growth of the cocoa-nut trees must be undertaken in order to bring about development of the jilantation at the earliest date. ced growers assert that the cost of such operations is fully repaiil by the enhanced returns obtained. Some yield of fruit may be given on good soil, where the trees have received ev
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