. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGEICULTURAL NEWS. NOVEMBKK GLEANINGS. A LOpy of the Meteorological of British East Africa for 1911 has just lieen received. It seems very com- plete. The accumulation of such data from all parts of the world will in time reiii 26,,206 nuts is recorded. Local consumption, it was estimated, accounted for 4 million nuts. Nearly 21 million nuts were converted into copra and e.\ported. {Annual Re2)orf ot Agriculture and L'rovn Landi. Seychelles, 1913.) From the same report we glean tliat a smal
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGEICULTURAL NEWS. NOVEMBKK GLEANINGS. A LOpy of the Meteorological of British East Africa for 1911 has just lieen received. It seems very com- plete. The accumulation of such data from all parts of the world will in time reiii 26,,206 nuts is recorded. Local consumption, it was estimated, accounted for 4 million nuts. Nearly 21 million nuts were converted into copra and e.\ported. {Annual Re2)orf ot Agriculture and L'rovn Landi. Seychelles, 1913.) From the same report we glean tliat a small ijuautity of titrate of lime is made in the colony, but the attacks of scale insects give little hope of developing this The report is in favour of growing Bermuda onions in some of the , as it is thought that the conditions of climate and soil lend themselves to the requirements of onion cidture. Imported onions are retailed at from 12c. to 2nc. per Iti. Also from the same lepurt we take the following inter esting note. Experiments have been made in raising hawks- bill turtles in captivity. This work has received a blow from which it may not recover. A disease broke out suddenly in two sea-water enclosures, and all the young turtles were found dead in those enclosures at the .same date, though separated from each other by a deep sea channel and a distance of over 6 nules. Fr(,m the Louisiana Planter, October 10, 1911, we glean that the sugar crop of Trinidad for 1914 was 55,4f/ricultural A^ews of October 21, 1911, the following items taken from the Produce Markets Revieir, September 19, 1914, may be of interest: 'For English marrowfats, high jn-ices are being asked . . There is con- siderably more demand for really good Japanese jjeas. . Ilangoon beans are firmer, and the possibilities of large supplies in the immediate future are remote. . Butter lieans are firmer: some dealers seem inclined to buy any eh(\'ip parcels ; A note in the Journal
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