. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THK IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. XI. No. 276. BARBADOS, NOVEMBER 23, 1912. 6oTAi Pbiob Id. OAR CONTENTS. Pack. Antigua; A Little-Knimii District in 375 Carbolic Acid, Crude, for Mosquito Larvae ... 376 Chicle jtuiii 375 Cotton Notes :— Mechanical Harvesting of Cotton 374 West Indian Cotton ... 374 Dominica, Some Interest- ing Plants in 372 Egyptian Department of Agriculture, Some Work of 377 Exhibition, International Rubber. 1912 .379 Fungus Notes :— Sugar-can
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THK IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. XI. No. 276. BARBADOS, NOVEMBER 23, 1912. 6oTAi Pbiob Id. OAR CONTENTS. Pack. Antigua; A Little-Knimii District in 375 Carbolic Acid, Crude, for Mosquito Larvae ... 376 Chicle jtuiii 375 Cotton Notes :— Mechanical Harvesting of Cotton 374 West Indian Cotton ... 374 Dominica, Some Interest- ing Plants in 372 Egyptian Department of Agriculture, Some Work of 377 Exhibition, International Rubber. 1912 .379 Fungus Notes :— Sugar-cane Diseases in Porto Rico .382! Gleanings 380' Insect Notes :— Jumping Beans Protection of Coco-nut Palms from Paob. Lime Cultivation in Marti- nique .372 iMarket Reports 384 Notes and Comments ... ,S7G Oil and Oil Seed Trade of Marseilles 373 Ostrich Meat as Human Food 377 Sawdust, Feeding Value of 377 Silkworm Rearing in Yuca- tan 377 Soil Nitrification. Some Conditions Influencing 369 Sugar Industry:— Distance of Cane-Plant- ing 370 Sugar in Formosa ... 371 West I idian Sugar-canes in Queensland ... Students' Comer ... 378 378 I West Indian Products ... 383 371 381 Some Conditions Influencing Soil Nitrification. iiULL RECOGNITIUN is now given by the agriculturist to the importance of the causes ) that operate in the transformation of the nitrogen compounds in the soil into forms that can be taken up directly by green plants. These causes are concerned intimately with bacterial life; the work is divided between different kinds of these organisms, and each kind takes its definite part in the process: the putrefactive bacteria bring about the formation of compounds of ammonia from the more complex nitrogenous substances in the soil, and the subsequent successive changes into nitrites and nitrates complete the process that is usually termed nitrification. It is evident that one of the cares of the agriculturist is to determine the conditions required for the mo
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