. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 3S0 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. NovjiMBEE 28, GLEANINGS. The Agiicultural Listructor at Nevis repnrts tliat lieuvy rains were experieiieed over the island on November I. From '25 to 6 inches of rain fell in different parts. Tlie United States Consul at Calcutta in a recent report comments upon the increasing cultivation of ground nuts in Rurnia. The area devoted to this crop in 1903 no more than 3,800 , but in 1907 it had increased to 80,000 acres. The export of kola nuts from the Gold Coast of Africa
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 3S0 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. NovjiMBEE 28, GLEANINGS. The Agiicultural Listructor at Nevis repnrts tliat lieuvy rains were experieiieed over the island on November I. From '25 to 6 inches of rain fell in different parts. Tlie United States Consul at Calcutta in a recent report comments upon the increasing cultivation of ground nuts in Rurnia. The area devoted to this crop in 1903 no more than 3,800 , but in 1907 it had increased to 80,000 acres. The export of kola nuts from the Gold Coast of Africa increii-sed in value from £73,632 in 1906 to £78,901 in 1907, while the shipments of copra have similarly advanced from a value of £4,290 in 1906 to £G,18(i in 1907. The total rainfall at St. Lucia during 1907 was 71-33 inches, this being 10"51 inches below the fall of 1906. Rain fell in the island on no less than 27o days. The niaximnni rain on any one day was 198 inches on October 19 The fourth annual side of live stm-k was held at the (iovernment Stock Farm, 'iVibago, on November The li^t of animals offered for sale comprised fifty-six lots, includ- ing a number of half-bred Zebu cows and , three btdls, four , together with pigs and poultry of various breeds. For the year ending ilarch 31, 190S, the exports of live .stock from British (iuiaua were as follows : 1,438 horned cat- tle valued at £'),()22 : 772 pigs valued at £587 ; 49 donkeys valued at £90 ; 201 goats valued at £78 6.'!. ; 160 sheep valued at £75 : 2 horses valued at £'itf L'uba at 985,711 tons as crmipareil with 1,452,049 tons iu 1906-7. The number of mills working iu 1907-8 was 168, while 184 were in operation in the previous year. While the tntal weight of cane ground was 15,431,180 tons in 1906-7, it was no ninre than 10,198,965 tons in 1907-8. For the encouragement of school gardens in Jamaica the Governor of the colony has sanctioned the award of a number of
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