. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 31G THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. October G, With a view to obtaining authentic information as to the- probable results to be obtained from Castilloa rubber trees in Jamaica, a planter in the parish of Portland has offered to allow the Agricultural Society to carry out tap[iing ex|>erinients on trees on his estate. GLEANINGS. According to the Cotton Tnide Journal, the ex|iorts of Sea Island cotton from San Juan, Porto Rico, for the year ended June 30 last, amounted to 976 bales (297,080 lb.), of the value of $95
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 31G THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. October G, With a view to obtaining authentic information as to the- probable results to be obtained from Castilloa rubber trees in Jamaica, a planter in the parish of Portland has offered to allow the Agricultural Society to carry out tap[iing ex|>erinients on trees on his estate. GLEANINGS. According to the Cotton Tnide Journal, the ex|iorts of Sea Island cotton from San Juan, Porto Rico, for the year ended June 30 last, amounted to 976 bales (297,080 lb.), of the value of $95, The Colonizer says, in regard to the proposal to start a lemon industry in Dominica : ' if they could be shipped so as to arrive here in the summer, when the market is understocked, they should find a good opening.' Jlr. William Gray, of Edinburgh I'niversity, has been appointed Normal and Agricultural Master in British Guiana in succession to Mr. E. G. Chamberlaine. (Demerara .4»-jfosy, September 19, 1906.) The American Breeders' A,ssociation will hold a meeting at Columbus, Ohio, from January 15 to 18, 1907. At most of the sessions there will be two sections, for animal breeders and plant breeders, respectively. It has been decided by the Government of Trinidad to distribute 500 copies of this Deiiartment's paniiihlet (No. 41) 'Tobago, Hints to Settlers,' among headmasters of public schools in England. A special meeting of the St. Lucia Agricultural Society was held on Monday, October 1, at which Mr. H. A. Ballon, , Entomologist on the staff of the Imperial Department of Agriculture, gave an address relating to insect pests. The Agricultural Superintendent at St. Vincent reports that arrangements have been made to carry out a scheme of seed selection for cotton on four estates in the island. On each of these estates 100 plants will be selected by Mr. Thornton and Mr. Sands. It is stated in the Report on Agricultural Investigations in Porto Rico during 1905 that sm
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