. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. XIV. No. 348. TIIF. AGRICULTURAL XI'. BRITISH 9UIA ? REPOR T OX THE ONDER- NEEMING INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, FOR 19U-15. The agricultural work i m the farm attached to this school bas yielded duriug > it interestirt results. Apart from I h the farm has be a finam The total expenditure on the whole farm for the year under review was $1,491*60, while the revenue from farm pr ild, amounted to $3,801*36. The i. yi it's working was $2,506'42>s 11 :d with $1,166*10 in the previous year 925 i L912-13. During t
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. XIV. No. 348. TIIF. AGRICULTURAL XI'. BRITISH 9UIA ? REPOR T OX THE ONDER- NEEMING INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, FOR 19U-15. The agricultural work i m the farm attached to this school bas yielded duriug > it interestirt results. Apart from I h the farm has be a finam The total expenditure on the whole farm for the year under review was $1,491*60, while the revenue from farm pr ild, amounted to $3,801*36. The i. yi it's working was $2,506'42>s 11 :d with $1,166*10 in the previous year 925 i L912-13. During the year increases in the area under coco-nuts and limes have taken place, and experimental plots of < luinea oil have b ed. A few hundred Arica nut palms and some Abais palms (Elaeis guineensis) planted out. The coffee cultivation which had suffered from the 1911 12 drought appears to have recovered its productivity, the yield for the year under report having been 20 per cent, higher than in any previous year. A portion of the yield, however, rightly belongs to the previous year when the crop was very late. The cacao fields are reported I i : in s I order and free from disease of any description. Like coffee, the yield of cured was much higher than in the previous yen. The Para rubber trees lia ontinued to make fair growth. The tapping experiments have been continued, and during the year reviewed, the yield per tree was slightly over 4 lb. Two hundred younger treeson the farm have now been selected and are about to be experimentally tapped. One of the most interesting sections in the report under notice is that devoted to the subject of lime cultivation. At the annual session of the < lombined Court of British Guiana in March last, a vote of $3,100 was obtained for the erection of a small factor} at Onderneeining for concentrated lime juice on similar lines to those obtaining at the Government Factory in St. Lucia, which has proved a great success. The idea of obta
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