. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 332 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS, October 16, It is announced that a Universal Exhibition will be held in Brussels in September 1910. At the same time, there will be an International Congress of Agricultural Associations and lUiral Demography in that city, to which all societies having for their object the improvement of agri- culture, in its widest meaning, are invited to send delegates. GLEANINGS. In 1908, the Anglo-('eylon sugar estates in Mauritius obtained 13,360 tons of sugar from 120,400 tons of cane, a yiel
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 332 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS, October 16, It is announced that a Universal Exhibition will be held in Brussels in September 1910. At the same time, there will be an International Congress of Agricultural Associations and lUiral Demography in that city, to which all societies having for their object the improvement of agri- culture, in its widest meaning, are invited to send delegates. GLEANINGS. In 1908, the Anglo-('eylon sugar estates in Mauritius obtained 13,360 tons of sugar from 120,400 tons of cane, a yield of 11 per cent, of sugar on the weight of cane ground. The quantity of raw sugar that was imported into the United Kingdom for the i) year, up to the end of June, was 400,98-5 tons. For a similar period in 1908, the amount •was 363,225 tons. The Curator of the Botanic Station, Montserrat, states that the area planted in cotton in that island during the present season is about 1,800 acres. He further states that, on the whole, there is promise of a good crop. The exports of cacao from the (Jernian Cameroons have shown a steady increase. In 1904, they amounted to 209 cwt., valued at £43(i ; i;i 1907, the amount was 1,028 cwt., worth £2,496 9s. From an account of the scale insects of India, given in the Memoirs of the Departineiil of Agriculture—EHtunioloiiical tSeries, Vol. II, No. 7, it appears that there is no indication at present that and similar insects will ever become as serious a pest in India as they have in .several other coun- tries. It is reported in the Xen' Vor/,- imint Station Btdletin, No. 306, that an etticient means has been fouml for controlling the apple leaf-blister mite, which is spreading in the Eastern States. The remedy consists in the application of lime-sulphur wash while the leaf-buds are growing, followed by sprayings with Bordeaux mixture. 'Hic Aninidl Rcjiort of the Coltcctoi' (f Viixtoins, 'Tr'im- dad, for 1908-9,
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