. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 60 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. February 22, The Ciihti Errieii' rei)Oi-ts that a large crop of oranges and graiiefruit is expected in Cuba this year, although the treeshave sutiered much fr(jni drought. The pine-apple crop suffered from the same cause during 1907. the exports for the vear being 650,77(i crates as compared with 920,542 crates in ; GLEANINGS. liice production in the Naparinia Ward Union of Trinidad showed a consideralile increase during tlie 190(i-7 .season. \Vhile the crop of 1905-(; wa
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 60 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. February 22, The Ciihti Errieii' rei)Oi-ts that a large crop of oranges and graiiefruit is expected in Cuba this year, although the treeshave sutiered much fr(jni drought. The pine-apple crop suffered from the same cause during 1907. the exports for the vear being 650,77(i crates as compared with 920,542 crates in ; GLEANINGS. liice production in the Naparinia Ward Union of Trinidad showed a consideralile increase during tlie 190(i-7 .season. \Vhile the crop of 1905-(; was apin'oxinn.,tely 5,400 barrels, that of 190G-7 was 9,120 barrels. 'i'he Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture has received iipplicatiim for a large number of bulbils or bulblets of Ayave rl'jliht,\M\ <ii«i/aiia (sisal hemp). Only plants of the true vari- ety, with a terminal thorn, and without any side thorns are needed. Letters from persons ha\'ing a suj)ply for disi)osal should be addressed—Lnperial Department of Agriculture, I'arbados. 'J'he rainfall in Ihitish (Iniana for the year 1906-7 reached 95-51 inches. The highest rainfall on any one day was 3 24 inches, and the total for the year was above the average for the last twenty-five years. (Aiinnal licpurt.) The average yields of raw sugar olitained per acre in the chief beet-producing countries of J'jirope during the season 1906-7 are given as follows in the latest issue of Sii</ar yierf :—Germany, 4,400 lt).:15elguim, 4,1 is It,.; Austria, :\432 ; France, 3,220 lb.; ,2,200" IT,. The Guiana Government has made a on favouralile terms, of land in Esse(juebo, suitable for sisal lienip cultivation, to a gentleman who intends to take up the cultivation on a considerable scale in the colony. (Denwi-ani C/ii'onic/e.) The total area of Crown Inids in -lamaica is estimated in the latest Annua/ liepott on the colony as 202,750 acres. During the year 1906-7, 247 acres were taken u|), in
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