. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 284 THE AGRICULTUKAL NEWS. Skptkmbkk 5, GLEANINGS. An Agiicuhural Show will be heM at St. ^'illeent in .Taimary next nnck-r the of the Imperial Department (if Agricultnrc and the Agrieultnral and Commercial Society of the island. Prizes will be awarded for cotton, cacao, arrowroot, sugar, rum, starches, cott'ee, fruit, vegetables,, and live stock. The trade rctuiiis of Tiinidad for 1907-8 .show that the import of cacao into the island (for .subsequent ) increased by 2,702,82-^ Hi. compare
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 284 THE AGRICULTUKAL NEWS. Skptkmbkk 5, GLEANINGS. An Agiicuhural Show will be heM at St. ^'illeent in .Taimary next nnck-r the of the Imperial Department (if Agricultnrc and the Agrieultnral and Commercial Society of the island. Prizes will be awarded for cotton, cacao, arrowroot, sugar, rum, starches, cott'ee, fruit, vegetables,, and live stock. The trade rctuiiis of Tiinidad for 1907-8 .show that the import of cacao into the island (for .subsequent ) increased by 2,702,82-^ Hi. compared with 1906-7. The greater i)art of this amount came from Venezuela. The rice imports .showed an in value of about £l,-300, although the quantity imported was less by 1,,057 &.,. prol)ably owing to local production. Experiments in tlie growth of ditt'ereut varieties of cabbage were carried out at the lV>tanic (Jardens, British (Juiaua, during 1907-8. Tin- Ajiiikk/ Jiejjui-t for the .season mentions that the '.lersey \\'aketield ' variety again gave the best I'esults, as in 190t)-7, and produced (?abbages almost as good in t1avf)ur as if grown in Mnglaiid. Applications have been sent in to the Imperial Depart- jnent of Agriculture by .seven overseers at Barbados, and by about the same number at Antigua, who are to enter for the courses of reading and examination for over- seers and sub-managers, of which particulars have been given in recent numbers of the Ai/rii-ulliirnl (see Vol. VII, 1). 209). ()iie or two hauil eultixators which may possibly be found to be suitable for use in connexion with cotton cultiva- tion have been received by the Impt'rial l)e]iartment of Agricidtnre for experimental purposes. They are now being tried on cotton estates at Barbados, ami it is hoped later to jnake trials with the im|)lements in cotton fields in other islands. from the eommeneeinent of the up tn .Vugust 27 last, there wi're
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