. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 220 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. July 10, The weelily shipmei;)ts of bananas from Dutch Guiana amount at present fo from 12,000 to 13,000 bunches. During the til St five months of 1909, there were shipped altogether ?.;29,.')26 bunches, as against 219,663 bunches during the com sponding period of the previous year. (Deincrdra Ari/oxi/.y GLEANINGS. A sum of $7,000 has l)een appropriated in Cuba, liy the Government, for expenses in connexion with the cam])aign against bud-rot in tlie cocoa-nut groves of the
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 220 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. July 10, The weelily shipmei;)ts of bananas from Dutch Guiana amount at present fo from 12,000 to 13,000 bunches. During the til St five months of 1909, there were shipped altogether ?.;29,.')26 bunches, as against 219,663 bunches during the com sponding period of the previous year. (Deincrdra Ari/oxi/.y GLEANINGS. A sum of $7,000 has l)een appropriated in Cuba, liy the Government, for expenses in connexion with the cam])aign against bud-rot in tlie cocoa-nut groves of the island. The Dominica Agricultural and Commercial Society has made a grant of £b to the trustees of the Public Library at Pioseau to assist in defraying the cost of [lurchasing standard works on general and troi>ical agriculture. Mr. H. H. Cousins, , Director of Agriculture for Jamaica, has ])roceeded to England on leave, and during his absence Mr. W. , F , Superintendent of Public Gardens, will act as Director of Agriculture. It is mentioned in the latest aniuial report of the Dominica Agricultural and Commercial , Society that an additional eleven members were elected during 1908, and that at the end of the ye^r the nieudiership stood at 117, as compared with lOfi in 1907. As a result of the unfavourable conditions which have i>revailed in connexion with the Antigua cotton industry in the last two seasons, the Agricultural Society of the recently passed a resolution jjraying the Governor to reduce the tax on land under cotton cultivation to per acre. There have been 186 sugar factories in oiicration in Cuba during the past season. Of these, seventy-two are of Cuban ownership, thirty-six of American, seventy-six English, French, and Si)anish ownership. The average area of canes associated with each factory is about 4,-500 acres, and the average output of sugar about 8,100 tons. The sugar acreage of Cuba has doubled within the past ten years.
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