. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. IX. No. 218. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 279. PROGRESS REPORT ON THE EXPERIMEXT- AL AGRICULTURAL WORK OF THE DEPART- MENT OF SCIENCE AND AGRU'ULTURE, BRIT- ISH GUIANA. APRIL TO OCTOBER 1909. The work described in this report was undertaken, under the auspices of the Department of Scietice and Agriculture, British Guiana, at the Botanic Garden, the Onderneeniing School Farm, the Rubber Farm (under the general supervision of the Government Agent of the North Western District), the rubber and forestry
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. IX. No. 218. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 279. PROGRESS REPORT ON THE EXPERIMEXT- AL AGRICULTURAL WORK OF THE DEPART- MENT OF SCIENCE AND AGRU'ULTURE, BRIT- ISH GUIANA. APRIL TO OCTOBER 1909. The work described in this report was undertaken, under the auspices of the Department of Scietice and Agriculture, British Guiana, at the Botanic Garden, the Onderneeniing School Farm, the Rubber Farm (under the general supervision of the Government Agent of the North Western District), the rubber and forestry station at Pin. Christian- burg, Deraerara Itiver, and at the Kubber Experiment Station at Bonasika Reserve. Plans for the establishment of an station near Marlborough, Pomeroon Itiver, are being considered by the Government. In the work in raising canes from seed, much trouble was experienced at one time through damping off during the heavy rains; a remedy was found in thoroughly watering the soil in the seed boxes with a mixture of nitric acid with water, containing 2 oz. of the acid in 1 gallon of water, the soil being treated sub-sequently with water alone in order to remove acidity. In .January and February 1909, about 5-5,000 cuttings of the more valuable .seedling canes were distributed to a few planters. Other promising vari- eties were planted out for manurial variety experiments, and these are intended to be used, partly, for making comparison of the value of calcium cyanamide and calcium nitrate, as manures, with that of the older nitrogenous manures. The experiments connected with cane-arrowing and seed-sowing, in 1908, showed that the seeds of arrows from the Bourbon variety were the most fertile, followed in order by D 109 , , , and The manurial experiments with nitrogenous manures, in connexion with sugar-cane, showed that when nitrate of soda follows sulphate of ammonia, the latter having been used for some tim
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