. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGIIICULTUUAL NEWS. Jani' 4, GLEANINGS. It is announced that the success of the Textile Exhibi- tion held recently at Soerabaia, Java, has led to the decision to hold a rubber exhibition at Batavia in the year 1914. This will include everything connected with raw rubber, both wild and iilantation, and similar products such as balata, jelutnng and gutta. Among the exports of Peru during the year 1910-11 there were included: cocaine value £60,287, rubber (wild) 1*78,540 kilos, value £, rubber (S
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AGIIICULTUUAL NEWS. Jani' 4, GLEANINGS. It is announced that the success of the Textile Exhibi- tion held recently at Soerabaia, Java, has led to the decision to hold a rubber exhibition at Batavia in the year 1914. This will include everything connected with raw rubber, both wild and iilantation, and similar products such as balata, jelutnng and gutta. Among the exports of Peru during the year 1910-11 there were included: cocaine value £60,287, rubber (wild) 1*78,540 kilos, value £, rubber (Sernamby de Jebe), 703,112 kilos, value £207,809, rubber (Caucho), kilus., value £42,405, rubber (Sernamby de Caucho) a,--'36,105 kilos. A table given in the Pfoceedinrja of the Agricultural tSocieti/ of Trinidad and Tohago for November 1912 shows that the total export of cacao faom the island during that month wiis 329,730 B). The amount shipped previously was 40,143,025 R)., making a total for the first eleven months of 3911 of 40,472,755 ft. The bulletin of the South African Department of Cus- toms and E-xcise for September estimates that, on account of drought, the total output of sugar in Natal for 1912 will not exceed 100,000 tons. As there is a gradual increase in production, the consumption in South Africa will shortly be supplied, and Natal will have to become a sugar-exporting country. With relation to the influence of molasses on soils, it is of interest that a paper in the Journal of Indvsfi ial and Ji'nr/ineering Chemistri/, 1912, p. 272, describes work which showed that when sugar and molasses were added to sewage filter beds nitrification was checked. The addition was some- ?what u!"'ful, however, in that it partly cleared the beds of organic matter. In the Dominica for December 6, ,1912, it is .shown by means of a table that the citrus exports from the island for the first eleven months of last year were as follows: titrate of lime 3,222
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