. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. V. No. 106. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. U9 STEAM PLOUGHING IN THE WEST INDIES. In recent numbers of the Agricultural Xeuv (Vol. V, pp. (37 and 83) mention has been made of the improved machinery in use in the West Indies in connexion with the sugar and other industries. The accompanying illustration shows a steam plough at work on the Caroni estate in Trinidad, and is from a photograph taken by a member of the West Indian Agricultural Conference in January- of last year. Steam ploughs have also been in use at the t
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. V. No. 106. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. U9 STEAM PLOUGHING IN THE WEST INDIES. In recent numbers of the Agricultural Xeuv (Vol. V, pp. (37 and 83) mention has been made of the improved machinery in use in the West Indies in connexion with the sugar and other industries. The accompanying illustration shows a steam plough at work on the Caroni estate in Trinidad, and is from a photograph taken by a member of the West Indian Agricultural Conference in January- of last year. Steam ploughs have also been in use at the two central factories in-Antigua, while, as mentioned in the Agri- cultural N'eu's (Vol. V, p. 60), the Colonial Company's plantation Harmony Hall, in Trinidad, has recently been similarly equipped. The latest issue of the West India Coinm'dtre Circular refers to the use of steam ploughs in the West Indies as follows :— and they are not only ploughing the land, but pulverizing it very satisfactorily. On Gunthoriie's they are also doing excellent work on land which has hitherto defied the old- fashioned methods of tillage. This is all very satisfactory, and with these results before the planters there is a proba- bility of an extension of the system of steam ploughing in the West Fig. 4. Steam Plovghis<; in Trinidad. We have received by the homeward mail striking evidence regarding the efficacy of the system of steam ploughing on sugar estates, which has been adopted in two such dissimilar colonies as Trinidad and Antigua. Mr. George Christail, whom we are glad to welcome back in greatly improved health, tells us that on the Caroni estate in Trinidad a considerable area of canes grown on land ploughed by steam has been cut this year, and that the average yield of plant canes per acre has been .3-1 tons as compared with 23 tons from land cultivated under the old system. The total cost of cultivation of the steam-ploughed lands, after allowing for wages and expenses o
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