. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 140 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. April 25, GLEANINGS. According to the Queensland Agricultural Journal (February 1914), the estimate of the sugar crop for the year 1913 shows a total yield of 241,496 tons or some 30,000 tons in excess of the highest previous returns. Explosives for the Farm is the title of a pamphlet issued by Xobel's Explosive Co., Ltd., of Glasgow. This publica- tion gives a useful account of the necessary tools and apparatus, and presents in great detail directions for using the explosives. Pub
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 140 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. April 25, GLEANINGS. According to the Queensland Agricultural Journal (February 1914), the estimate of the sugar crop for the year 1913 shows a total yield of 241,496 tons or some 30,000 tons in excess of the highest previous returns. Explosives for the Farm is the title of a pamphlet issued by Xobel's Explosive Co., Ltd., of Glasgow. This publica- tion gives a useful account of the necessary tools and apparatus, and presents in great detail directions for using the explosives. Published in the Trinidad and Tobago Bulletin for February 1914, will be found the Farmers' Advance Ordinance, No. 28 of 1913. Particulars are given of the information which every advance note must contain, together with other matters involved in the legislation. A maximum moisture content of 12 per cent, is what may be safely allowed in maize at the time of shipment. But according to the Rhodeda AgricultaralJournal, during the wetter months of the year the moisture in some of the consignments dispatched from that country is considerably above this figure. A copy has been received of the papers read and the discussions which took place at the International Forestry Congress held in Paris during .June 1913, under the Presi- dency of M. Henry Defert, Vice President of the Touring Club I)e France. This publication runs into 950 pages, but contains very little information that is of direct importance to the West Indies. In the Journal of Agricultural Science, Vol. VI, Part I, figures are given which show that in some cases soils may contain something like 30,000 B). of ferrous iron per acre. If ferrous iron is as toxic to plants as it is commonly supposed to be, this large quantity must be present in the soil in a highly insoluble form. Mr. J. A. DaCosta, of Rio de .Janeiro, has invented a machine for coagulating rubber. The use of the machine ?will enable the manufacturer (according
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