. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. July 29. An advertisement in the Journal of the Department or Aiirkulture of Victoria for January 1916, concerns channel irrigation and the prevention of seepage. The employment of open tluming as against closed piping is advocated. The material re(|uired to make 6-inch piping will make 12-inch open Humes, giving almost double the capacity, while the price is just half. This would appear to be a very .satis- factory way of conducting irrigation water along level land for .short
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. July 29. An advertisement in the Journal of the Department or Aiirkulture of Victoria for January 1916, concerns channel irrigation and the prevention of seepage. The employment of open tluming as against closed piping is advocated. The material re(|uired to make 6-inch piping will make 12-inch open Humes, giving almost double the capacity, while the price is just half. This would appear to be a very .satis- factory way of conducting irrigation water along level land for .short distances. GLEANINGS, A forecast to the maize crop of South Africa appears in The Trade Journal for March 30, 1916. For the ?whole of South Africa an increase over the previous season's yields of about 62,000 bags is This is of course a negligible quantity. A note in Nature for June 22 shows the large amount of potash contained in tobacco ash, namely, 20 per cent. The tobacco consumed in the United Kingdom for the year ending March 31, 1914, would give approximately 13,3.')9 tons of ash, containing 2,672 tons of potash, which at the pre-war price of kainit would be worth nearly £51,000. In a report on the North-western District of British Guiana, for the nine months April to December , it is stated that the area under cultivation shows an increase of 187i acres for the period, the total area cultivated being 2,046 acres. The cultivation of coffee continues to receive much attention by the farmers of this district, and the area under this crop ; been increased by 140 acres. Ill a report under the Food and Drugs Ordinance of British Guiana, it is stated that the low quality and high rate of adulteration of the milk offered for sale in Georgetown is very noticeable. Out of 523 samples of milk purchased in Georgetown no less than 20f< were unsatisfactory in quality, ?whilst 131 were found to be adulterated. These figures are equivalent to 39-7 an
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