. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. u THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Febeuaey 5, GLEANINGS. The amount of cotton produced in Togo, French West Africa, in 1908, was 423 tons, as compared with 301 tons in 1907. Unginned and ginned cotton to the value of £6,670 and £7,117, respectively, were shipped from the Uganda Protectorate during the quarter ending September 30, 1909. The quantity of copra exported from Java during 1908 was nearly 95,O0O tons, which is the largest amount since 1905. The quality is stated to have been generally poor, and prices fluct
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. u THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Febeuaey 5, GLEANINGS. The amount of cotton produced in Togo, French West Africa, in 1908, was 423 tons, as compared with 301 tons in 1907. Unginned and ginned cotton to the value of £6,670 and £7,117, respectively, were shipped from the Uganda Protectorate during the quarter ending September 30, 1909. The quantity of copra exported from Java during 1908 was nearly 95,O0O tons, which is the largest amount since 1905. The quality is stated to have been generally poor, and prices fluctuated considerably, the lowest being I3s. id., and the highest £1 4(7. per picul (136 lb.). It is stated in the Re2Mrt on the Agricultural Depart- ment of the Gold Coast ioT 1908 that that Department had introduced improved varieties of sugar-cane from the West Indies, and that these varieties appeared to do fully as well as any of the native ones. A entitled Practical School Gardenimj, by v. Elfnrd and iSamuel Heaton, has just been issued by the Clarendon Press, at the price of two shillings. It contains a highly suggestive chapter on ' Discovery Lessons', the contents of which are of general interest in relation to nature teaching. The degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture has been recently constituted at the Manchester University. The final examination for this degree includes the following subjects: agriculture and estate management, engineering and surveying, agricultural chemistry, botany and zoology, geology, economics, and agricultural law. The A nniKtl Report of the Comptroller of Customs, British Guiana, for 1908-9, shows that the value of the total exports of the colony for that period was •i?10,100,047; this is an increase of Ijl,884,639, or 186 per cent., conipai-ed with that of the previous year. Seventy per cent, of the total exports was formed by sugar, rum, molasses and cattle food. An attempt is being made in St. Helena to develop
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