. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. )86 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Jfne 8, It is shown in the Uganda Official Gazette for March 31, 1912, that the amount of ginned cotton exported from the Protectorate during the nine months ending December 31, 1911, was 4,798,192 ft., value £142,622; in the same way the quantity of unginned cotton exported was 2,944,816 ft., value £29,945, and of cotton seed 4,960,480 ft., value £4,462. The .similar figures for the .same period of 1910 were: ginned cotton, 2,302,384 ft., value £75,3-56; unginned cotton 3,150,112
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. )86 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Jfne 8, It is shown in the Uganda Official Gazette for March 31, 1912, that the amount of ginned cotton exported from the Protectorate during the nine months ending December 31, 1911, was 4,798,192 ft., value £142,622; in the same way the quantity of unginned cotton exported was 2,944,816 ft., value £29,945, and of cotton seed 4,960,480 ft., value £4,462. The .similar figures for the .same period of 1910 were: ginned cotton, 2,302,384 ft., value £75,3-56; unginned cotton 3,150,112 ft., value £24,896; and cotton seed 2,364,656 ft., value £2,102. GLEANINGS. It is stated in the Louitiana Planter iox April 27, 1912, that the sugar production in Brazil for the season 1911-12 is estimated at 270,000 tons. Of this amount 210,000 tons will be employed for home consumption. According to The Board of Trade Journal for Febru- ary 29, 1912, the exports of cacao from Para, Itacoatiara and Manaos, by way of Para, during the year 1911, amounted to 5,871,800 ft. In the previous year the corresponding export was 8,122,400 ft., and in 1909 10,628,200 ft. Writing from Matamoras (Mexico) the United States Consul there says that the region is rapidly becoming a cotton-growing country. In 1910 there were raised 600 bales, and last year 2,000 bales while there will probably be a crop of over 3,000 bales in 1912. There has been plenty of rain for the new season, and up to March 6 about 25 per cent, of the acreage has been planted. (The Textile Mer- cury, April 13, 1912.) Der Tro2jen2}Jlanzer ioT April 1912, p. 208, contains an abstract of an account of work carried out with Manihot Glaziocii in German East Africa, in which the results of the investigation permit it to be gathered that the branches of this tree contain quite 12'1 per cent, more rubber than the corresponding parts of a stem belonging to a tree which has branched high up, but that the cost of tapping is at l
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