. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 172 THE AGKICULTURAL NEWS. May 31. 1919. T5P7 ?*• *. In commenting on an article in Engineering for February 21, Xatiire. March 13, 1919, points out the advantages of concrete roads. Such roads do not disintegrate under traffic, and do not soften with rain; there is theref re neither dust nor mud. The initial cost is higher, but_^ie maintenance cost is much lower than that of macadam. The maintenance cost of an experimental stretch of concrete on the London to Chatham road, laid down in 1915, has been nil during th
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 172 THE AGKICULTURAL NEWS. May 31. 1919. T5P7 ?*• *. In commenting on an article in Engineering for February 21, Xatiire. March 13, 1919, points out the advantages of concrete roads. Such roads do not disintegrate under traffic, and do not soften with rain; there is theref re neither dust nor mud. The initial cost is higher, but_^ie maintenance cost is much lower than that of macadam. The maintenance cost of an experimental stretch of concrete on the London to Chatham road, laid down in 1915, has been nil during the four that have elapsed. GLEANINGS. The Jamaica Gkaiict, April 8, 1919, states that the Elders «i- Ffyffes steamer which sailed two days before for England carried a record cargo of 89,500 bunches of bananas. Not only was the number of bunches the largest, but they consisted of the finest fruit ever shipped from Jamaica lo the >rother Country. The timber industry of British Honduras contributes a large poriion of the exports of the colony. According to the report of the Collector of Customs for 1917, the total shipment of mahogany from liritish Honduras was 9,933,269 cubic feet, valued at •$86-.',077, while the shipment of logwood amounted to 4,715 tons, valued at .*r2'2,797. According to experiments made in Ceylon, it was found that a camphor plant twenty-eight months old, of average growth, yielded 10 or 12 lb. of prunings, and that 100 cwt. of prunings afforded on distillation 12 oz. of pure camphor. A rather larger percentage has been obtained in Florida from the leaves and twigs of trees less than twenty years old. (The Ferf'tanerv and Essentia/ Oii Record,'SUrohii, 1919.) Liquid manure has special advantages for garden crops, its stimulating ett'ects on these being generally very noticeable, btouse the fertilizing ingredients can be absorbed by growing plants more readily in a liquid than in a solid form. All flower plants in pots and beds, and vegetable c
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