. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OP THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. LIBRA' NEW Y( EOT AN J Vol. X. No. 250. BARBADOS, NOVEMBER 25, 1911. Priok Id. CONTENTS. British Guiana, Agricul- tural Matters in ... British India, Agriculture in Congo, Agricultural Ex- perimentation in the Cotton Notes :— Cotton at the Imperial Institute, 1910 St. Vincent, Govern- ment Cotton Purchase Scheme West Indian Cotton ... Department News Departmental Reports ... Fungus Notes :—• C>l)servations on Root Diseases in the
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OP THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. LIBRA' NEW Y( EOT AN J Vol. X. No. 250. BARBADOS, NOVEMBER 25, 1911. Priok Id. CONTENTS. British Guiana, Agricul- tural Matters in ... British India, Agriculture in Congo, Agricultural Ex- perimentation in the Cotton Notes :— Cotton at the Imperial Institute, 1910 St. Vincent, Govern- ment Cotton Purchase Scheme West Indian Cotton ... Department News Departmental Reports ... Fungus Notes :—• C>l)servations on Root Diseases in the West Indies. Part II Gleanings Grenada, Recent \griciil- tural work in Insect Notes :— Notes on the Cotton Worm Page. 379 377 375 Page. 374 375 374 381 373 382 380 3«1 378 Insect Notes: — Some I "seful Insecticides 378 Lime .Juice, Machinery for Separating and Sti'ain- ing 372 Market Reports 384 Niti'ogen, Assimilatii>n of by Rice 369 Notes and Comments ... 376 Onderneeiiiing School, Agricultural Work at 376 Plants, Kxcreticm from Foots and Stomala of 377 Red Sorrel as a Fibre Plant 372 Rulilier, Drying on Estates 383 St. Lucia, Trade and Cem- merce of, 1910-11 ... 377 Seed Sterilization and In- ocuhition 371 I Students' Corner 381 ' West Indian Agricultural Conference, 1912 ... 376 I West Indian Products ... 383 The Assimilation of Nitrogen bv Rice. ^jj^TTENTKJN was given in the Agricultural ^^News, Vol. IX, pp. 97 .ind 328, to recent n^^work that has been done in connexion with the assimilation of nitrogen by plants. It was pointed out that this had shown that nitrogen is not only taken in by green plants in the form of nitrates, but that they can make use of it directly by absorbing am- monium sulphate through the roots. In this waj', the old opinion that nitrates alone were available for absorp- tion from the soil by plants has received considerable modification, and it is the purpose of the present article to review investigations that have been underta
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