. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AamCULTURAL SEWS. OCTOBEE IS. GLEANINGS Cuba was one ovhich was erected in 1776. and was regularly working until lsr>2 —116 years. Another engine dated 1790 worked <i until 1894. Granadilla vines will often bloom profusely, but seldom bear fruit in the ordinary way. The structure of Granadilla flowers is such as to prevent self-pollination. The remedy for this is to pollinate the flowers artificially with a camel'd- hair brush. Olaa sigar plantation in Hawaii is reported in J'acli ouf S
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE AamCULTURAL SEWS. OCTOBEE IS. GLEANINGS Cuba was one ovhich was erected in 1776. and was regularly working until lsr>2 —116 years. Another engine dated 1790 worked <i until 1894. Granadilla vines will often bloom profusely, but seldom bear fruit in the ordinary way. The structure of Granadilla flowers is such as to prevent self-pollination. The remedy for this is to pollinate the flowers artificially with a camel'd- hair brush. Olaa sigar plantation in Hawaii is reported in J'acli ouf Sugar for August 16, 1919, to be making good progress with its paper mulching process, and the mill is now able to turn out some paper as well for commercial j>urpos( s. The destruction of trees by blight is causing much anxiety in the centeral districts of Jamaica. The yen's orange •crop will be considerably smaller than that of last ye t, and unless the blight is checked the industry will le seriously affected. The Governtutnt of Martinique, I'rench West Indies, is prepared, according to a report from Forl-de-France, to pay an annual to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company in the event of the company agreeing to allow their .'•teamers on the Halifax-West Indies route to call at that island. The Imperial Trade tJommissioner for the West Indies, .Mr. A. 'avilt. \\\A arranged to leave Trinidad, his headquarters, for British Ouima on an otticid visit. He hopes to visit Bar I before the close of the year, and a general tnur of other islands in the Caribbean will be uiidertalien later. {Tfic Tivfs Trade Supplement.) The export of ,OCO cwi. of rice, at t'.e rate of 50,000 cwt. per month has b:iu sinctioned by the Govern- ment of British Guiana to the following places : Trinidad, Barbados, Leeward Islands, Windward Islands. Martinique-, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana. The .shipments will begia .w from November 1^ 1919. (The Demerara Z)(j//y . Sept
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