. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 140 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Apkil 30, GLEANINGS. No. 70 of Colonial Reports and Pai^ers—Miscellaneous has been issued recently. It presents a list of colonial laws dealing \\ith patents, designs, trade marks, and the marking of merchandize, and regulations issued thereunder. Pamphlet No. 96 of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories has been issued as a reprint of part of the issue of the Pharmaceutical Journal, dated November 13, 1909. It deals with the tests for purity of quinine salts. The Report iif t
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 140 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Apkil 30, GLEANINGS. No. 70 of Colonial Reports and Pai^ers—Miscellaneous has been issued recently. It presents a list of colonial laws dealing \\ith patents, designs, trade marks, and the marking of merchandize, and regulations issued thereunder. Pamphlet No. 96 of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories has been issued as a reprint of part of the issue of the Pharmaceutical Journal, dated November 13, 1909. It deals with the tests for purity of quinine salts. The Report iif the Dii'ision of litoloijv and Horticulture, 1909, of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture, states that the bee industry in New Zealand is rapidly expanding, and that it was confidently estimated that the output of honey and wax during 1909 would be worth at £45,000. The Comptroller-General of Trade and Customs at Melbourne reports that, during the half-year ended December 1909, 70,795 lb. of cotton was gathered in Australia, all being produced in Queensland. The total production for the year amounted to 173,470 If'. (The Board of Trade Journal, March 24, 1910.) Acci->rding to the Report on the I'ro'irexs or Ai/riculture in. India for 1907-9, experiments with calcium nitrate and calcium cyananiide, as manures for wheat and linseed, did not give very encouraging results. There was a small increase in yield due to the application of calcium nitrate, but this was not sufficient in any case to constitute a profitable return. The Union Coloniale I'rancaise, which began its colonial congresses by that in North Africa in 190s, and by that of the older French colonies in 1909, is continuing its work, and it has been decided th;it the congress which will take place at Paris on October 10 to 15, 1910, will have for its subject the questions which are of interest with respect to East Africa; that is to .say, on one hand Madagascar and its dependencies, and on the other ha
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