. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 284 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. September 2, GLEANINGS. The crop of sugar produced in Madeira was larger in 1910 than in any previous year, being estimated at 68,000 tons, with a value of about £245,000. More attention is being given on the part of growers to the employment of artificial manures in sugar production, and the imports of these are steadily increasing. Notice is being given that the Dominica Agricultural is offering for sale to planters, for cultivation in the island, 6,000 seedlings of t
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 284 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. September 2, GLEANINGS. The crop of sugar produced in Madeira was larger in 1910 than in any previous year, being estimated at 68,000 tons, with a value of about £245,000. More attention is being given on the part of growers to the employment of artificial manures in sugar production, and the imports of these are steadily increasing. Notice is being given that the Dominica Agricultural is offering for sale to planters, for cultivation in the island, 6,000 seedlings of the Para rul)ber plant (Hevea brasiliensis) at the rate of '2d. per plant. Applications for these were to have been received by the Curator of the Botanic Station by the 1st inst., and the plants will be ready for distribution early in next month. A report received from the Curator of the Botanic Sta- tion, Dominica, shows that, during July, flowers were setting favourably for the cacao cro]i. The lime crop was normal, and there had been heavy shipments of the green fruit during the month. It is reported by the Imperial Trade Correspondent at Durban, that an estimate by the Natal Sugar Planters' Asso- ciation gives the production of sugar in the Colony for the year ending May 1912 as 95,000 tons. The total for the year 1910-11 is reckoned at 75,000 tons. In the British Medinil Journal for 1910, p. 1145, a paper is given in which the experience of the author is described in relation to the use of bananas for feeding infants. This has led to the recommendation that the fruit should be used for the purpose in the form of the flour, made into gruel or a decoction. According to the Trinidad Mirror for August 22, 1911, L'Enteiite Ri'jmfjlicave of Martinique states that machinery has arrived recently in that island, which is being obtained for the purpose of extracting the juice and essential oil from limes. This points to the commencement of a new industry in Martinique. The number o
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