Agricultural news . include not only local varieties, butalso some from Dahome). Tho return per acre for six years?from the Lisbon yam has been an average of 14,6771b,, byfar the largest avenge yield of anj variety experimentedwith. Mr. Bovell tliinks highly of the properties of Panicumdivaricalissimum, a closely related species to Guinea grass,as a fodder grass, and hopes that it will be successfullyintroduced into the island. The list of plants at present in the herbarium of theDepartment of Agriculture, Barbados, is appended. Atten-tion must be drawn to what is an evident mistake,by which t
Agricultural news . include not only local varieties, butalso some from Dahome). Tho return per acre for six years?from the Lisbon yam has been an average of 14,6771b,, byfar the largest avenge yield of anj variety experimentedwith. Mr. Bovell tliinks highly of the properties of Panicumdivaricalissimum, a closely related species to Guinea grass,as a fodder grass, and hopes that it will be successfullyintroduced into the island. The list of plants at present in the herbarium of theDepartment of Agriculture, Barbados, is appended. Atten-tion must be drawn to what is an evident mistake,by which two cottons, namely Gossi/pium barliadense andG. her/cireu/ii, together with Tfiesjiesia /opulnea, belongingto the order Malvaceae, and Adanstnia diijitata, belongingto the allied order Borabaceae, are classed under the unre-lated order Capparideae. The portion of the report dealing with the insect andfungus pests prevalent in Barbados will be dealt with inanother issue. 38 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Feuiu AKv 9 SEA ISLAND COTTON MARKET. The report ot .Messrs. Henry \V. Frost «v Co., onSea Island cotton in the Southern .States, tor the weekende<l .January-5, 191n, is as follows:— iSL.^NDs. We have Lad a dull market throughout theweek, and all business his been more or less [x;ndod byunprecedented colli weather The Kxchange reports no sales. The Factors are still refusing to make any eoncessionsti sell, and are holding lor prices last quoted. However, theortering stock is increasing, and with orders in hand we canbuy to advantage, having a good .sock to select from. We quote, viz;— Fine to Fully Fine 3i;. = to Fully Fine, off in preparation, 70c. to Tli-. = 73c. i;E0Ui;i.\s AND KLMMiiAS. The market in iSavannahand the interior towns has been very iiuiet throughout theweek, with limited demand resulting in small sales. Allthe offerings are fiinily held at our ijuotiitions, and there isa general feeling! among all holders of cotton that
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