. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGRlCULTUllAL January 11, 1919. GLEANINGS. A Govprnment notice, published in the S/. Croix Arts, November 23, 1918, proclaims that the Government of St. Croix has established'stations for the free distribution of milk to mothers who have children one year old or younger, and who are unable to buy it for themselves. From a notice in Nature, l^ecember 5, 1918, of the Fifth Indian Science Congress, it Is reported that the statement was made at the that, as one of the results of the war, several di
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGRlCULTUllAL January 11, 1919. GLEANINGS. A Govprnment notice, published in the S/. Croix Arts, November 23, 1918, proclaims that the Government of St. Croix has established'stations for the free distribution of milk to mothers who have children one year old or younger, and who are unable to buy it for themselves. From a notice in Nature, l^ecember 5, 1918, of the Fifth Indian Science Congress, it Is reported that the statement was made at the that, as one of the results of the war, several distilleries for the extraction ot essential oils have been established in Southern India, and that experts now have conSdence in the ability of India to supply the world's .sandal oil and thymol. The Fielii, l)pcember 14, 1918, in an article on the possi bilities uf alcohol fuel for lyotors. . that if on a map of South Africa, 25 feet square one square inch be marked otf, enough maize could be grown on that comparatively small area to produce more ihan ten times the present con- sumption of motor spirit in the United Kingdom. That . astounding statenent, but it shows how feasible is the production of alcohol on a large scile. Alcohol can be used in ordinary motor car engines by being mixed with 2-5 to 30 per cent ol benzol. The sugar crop of Peru of 1916-17 is estimated at 280,000 short tons, whereas the average annual production in the three years before the war was ,000 short tons. Of the half-million acres of good sugar land in Peru, it is stated that only about acres are planted in sugar-cane, but that there are projects now under consideration to increase the acreage very considerably. It may be inferred, therefore, that this industry in the Peruviic Kepublic has very great possi- bilities before it in the way of sugar production. (The Louisiana Plant(r, November 9, 1918.) A prac'ical banana grower, C. E. B. Welsh, writes in the Agricult
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