. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE NEWS. •Tanvai;v 11, GLEANINGS. y/.'!(>, I>eceiriber Hi. lPli~. lepoiis tb;\t Canary bana- tas wtre on the market for tbe first time fcr two years. Ki'.m information supplied to tbej Imperial L'om- mir'sioDer of Agriculture by Mr. -lohn 1! Boveli, , Riil-erintendent of Agriculture. Barbados, it appears that the «rea of Sea Island cotton grown in for the year 1918 was 1,445 acres, of which 17 acres were under ratoon totton. The Legielativi- ('ouncil of .lamaica has voted
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. THE NEWS. •Tanvai;v 11, GLEANINGS. y/.'!(>, I>eceiriber Hi. lPli~. lepoiis tb;\t Canary bana- tas wtre on the market for tbe first time fcr two years. Ki'.m information supplied to tbej Imperial L'om- mir'sioDer of Agriculture by Mr. -lohn 1! Boveli, , Riil-erintendent of Agriculture. Barbados, it appears that the «rea of Sea Island cotton grown in for the year 1918 was 1,445 acres, of which 17 acres were under ratoon totton. The Legielativi- ('ouncil of .lamaica has voted £10,000 to of £900,000 from a loan for jiiiblic works in view nf the return of (5,000 physically fit men. (7>( Times, December 14, 1918.) The St. Croix ./-vVof December •_'!, 1918. ?piotes a statement in the St. iMai/ /Voks, December 17. to the fffect that the authorities have at last decided to exterminate that little exterminator, the raongoose. The price ofl'ered is not bid. 5c. for each male and 10c. for each One of the greatest peanut-producing countries of the present day is the ("nited States of America. In the last ten. years the increase in production has been very rapid, and the most recent valuation in the peanut belt estimated the hold- ings a worth £4,000,0«i0. No less than farms aggre- gatiisg fiSo,000 acres are engaged in peanut production. Ib 190S the estimated jalue of the crop was £(',000, and since then there' has been an increase of 25 per {Farnurs' liu/k/in No. 119, Department of Aericulture New South Wales.) Ill an editorial note on women's worlc on the land, the /uurjia/ofthePoardofAgriculfurc, October 1918, says that; in spite of difficulties due to a number of causes—lack of physical strength, lack of training, initital want of organi- zation, feminine idio-yncrasies—it raayjbe said that, on the- whole, the work of the women on the land has proved a con- spicous success
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