. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 188 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. June 16, GLEANINGS. It is proposed to continue for another season the assistance oflfered by the Government of the Leeward Islands to cotton growers by means of the Cotton Industry Loan Bill. At a meeting of the .Jamaica Board of Agriculture held on Jlarch 12 last, it \Yas intimated that Mr. T. F. Teversham had, on account of ill-health, resigned his position as Lecturer in Agricultural Science. To the list of gentlemen elected to form a Permanent Exhibition Committee at Dominica,
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 188 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. June 16, GLEANINGS. It is proposed to continue for another season the assistance oflfered by the Government of the Leeward Islands to cotton growers by means of the Cotton Industry Loan Bill. At a meeting of the .Jamaica Board of Agriculture held on Jlarch 12 last, it \Yas intimated that Mr. T. F. Teversham had, on account of ill-health, resigned his position as Lecturer in Agricultural Science. To the list of gentlemen elected to form a Permanent Exhibition Committee at Dominica, published in the last issue of the Agricultural Neius (p. 168), the name of Mr. F. E. Everinstou should be added. His Excellency the Governor assented on June 1 to an ' Ordinance to prevent the introduction into this colony [Grenada] of diseases of plants.' The Governor may, by proclamation, absolutely prohibit the importation of any plants, etc., from places named in the proclamation. Provi- sion is also made for the fumigation and disinfection of plants imported into the colony. The article by Professor J. P. d'Albuquerque, published in the last issue of the Agricultural Keu's, on the use of cotton seed and cotton-cake-meal as a feeding stuff on West Indian plantations, will be issued shortly as Pamphlet No. 43. Cotton growers and stock owners will thus have, in a convenient form, full information as to the most economical way of utilizing this valuable by-product. The Queensland Agricultural Journal says: 'Lender the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act, arrowroot made from tous-les-mois (Canna edulis) may be sold in Great Britain only when labelled " Queensland ; A sample of a bulk lot was recently examined by the Agri- cultural Chemist, who pronounced it to be a starch of excellent quality and high purity. " This arrowroot ditiers from Bermuda arrowroot chietiy in containing much less insoluble iibre in its ;' Because the banana is
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