. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 92 THE AGKICULTUKAL NEWS. Makch 18, GLEANINGS. A report received from the Curator of the Kotanic Station, Montserrat, shows that the distribution of plants during .January last included; cane cuttings 9,600, cacao plants 233. A new regulation has been made by the Government of Jamaica concerning the importation of flour, so that this is not now permitted to be landed in that island in bags, but must be packed in barrels. The last annual report of the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture s
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 92 THE AGKICULTUKAL NEWS. Makch 18, GLEANINGS. A report received from the Curator of the Kotanic Station, Montserrat, shows that the distribution of plants during .January last included; cane cuttings 9,600, cacao plants 233. A new regulation has been made by the Government of Jamaica concerning the importation of flour, so that this is not now permitted to be landed in that island in bags, but must be packed in barrels. The last annual report of the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture shows that the value of sugar and molasses imported into that country, during 1910, ?Was about one and a quarter million pounds sterling. It is shown in a report from the British Acting ('onsul at Dairen, Manchuria, that the export of sesamum seed from Manchuria has begun lately to increase largely, because of the higher prices in South China, resulting from a greater demand. From two of the Manchurian ports, over 1,.")00 tons was shipped to .Japan during last November. Copies of three leaflets, issued by the Permanent Exhi- bitions Committee of British Guiana have been received. These deal with the sugar industry, the balata and rubber industries and the rice industry, and are produced in an attractive and useful form which should help to arouse and sustain interest, where it is required, in the subjects with which they deal. It is announced from the St. Lucia Botanic Station that several thousand lime plants are now ready for distribution in the island, from the nursery of the Agricultural Depart- ment at Union. The price of the plants is 6(/. per 100, at the Botanic Station, and orders, together with the necessary remittance, should bi' forwarded to Mr. J. C. Moore the Agricultuial Superintendent. The number of bales of cotton imported into the I'nited Kingdom during the fifty-two weeks ended December 29 was 3,773,012. This amount included 6,,500 bales of AVest
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