. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 4i THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. January 30, GLEANINGS. A ton of selected Sea Island cotton seed lias been ordered through the Imjierial Department of Agriculture for use in Jamaica during the next iplanting season. Among the exports from British Guiana for the period January I, 1904 to January 12, 1904, are mentioned 502.', tons of An old time distich, reminiscent of the period when Barbados largelj- produced cotton, still survives amongst the l^easantry :— ' I live in the thickets : I live very well,
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 4i THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. January 30, GLEANINGS. A ton of selected Sea Island cotton seed lias been ordered through the Imjierial Department of Agriculture for use in Jamaica during the next iplanting season. Among the exports from British Guiana for the period January I, 1904 to January 12, 1904, are mentioned 502.', tons of An old time distich, reminiscent of the period when Barbados largelj- produced cotton, still survives amongst the l^easantry :— ' I live in the thickets : I live very well, I'pon guinea corn, coco and cotton to sell.' The Board of I'rade Joiini'd referriiig to the exports of Grenada, says : ' Cotton and cotton seed are at present exclusively the product of Carriacou, the principal dependency of Grenada. In 1902, the actual export was 2,212 cwt. of raw cotton, and 4,")3G cwt. of cotton seed, valued at £4,069.' Committee of the At a meeting of the Managing v St. Lucia Agricultural Society on December 30, Sir Daniel could be Morris i)ronused, if the necessary arrangements could carried out, to attend a Conference of landowners and planters at Castries on Tuesday, February 23, to discuss the prospects of the cotton industrj-. Mr. A. H. Clark, a graduate of Harvard University, is on a visit to the Lesser Antilles for the of making- collections of fossils and mannnals. Mr. Clark is specially interested in bird life and he has already made investigations likely to be of value from the scientific as well as the agricultural point of view. The Journal of the Nm: York llotanical Garden for November 1903 contains an interesting report by Professor F. E. Lloyd on a ' Botanical expedition to the island of Dominica, British ^^'est Indies.' Professor Lloyd acknowl- edges his indebtedness for valuable suggestions and assistance received from Jlr. J. Jones, the Curator of the Botanic Station, and states that ' Roseau can boast of a very delightfu
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