. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 340 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. October 28, FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. LIME JUICE INVESTIGATION IN GRENADA. Particulars have been forwarded by Mr O. G. Auchin- leck, , Superintendent of Agriculture, Grenada, of investigations that have been canied out by him in relation to the juice from thick-skinned and tliinskinned limes, pre jpared in Grenada, and to samples of the juice from Carriacou. The results obtained are as follows :— Source of juice. Grenada thick-skinned limes „ thin-skinned limes Carriacou No. 1 No
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 340 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. October 28, FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. LIME JUICE INVESTIGATION IN GRENADA. Particulars have been forwarded by Mr O. G. Auchin- leck, , Superintendent of Agriculture, Grenada, of investigations that have been canied out by him in relation to the juice from thick-skinned and tliinskinned limes, pre jpared in Grenada, and to samples of the juice from Carriacou. The results obtained are as follows :— Source of juice. Grenada thick-skinned limes „ thin-skinned limes Carriacou No. 1 No. 2 Sp Gr. at29 C. 1 0-292 1-0298 Citiic acid, per gal. 11-79 52 16 08 1-0332 In giving these results, Mr. Auchinleck points out that in order to concentrate these juices to a content of 100 oz. citric acid per gallon they would have to be boiled as follows :— Grenada thick-skinned to 1 „ thin skinned Carriacou No. 1 No. 6i to 1 6| to 1 .5^' to 1 A NEW OF CORN POLLINATION. Under this beading, an article in the American breed- ers' , Vol. II, No. 1, describes what appears to be a handy method of corn pollination. In such work the chief difficulties arise in regard to preventing the access of foreign pollen to the silks, particularly that which is bound to be carried on the hands or instruments of the operator. In employing the method, the first requisite is to cover the tassel and the silk with paper liags; 10 11). JFanila paper bags of the kind obtainable at groceries are useful for the purpose. In each the mouth of the bag is carefully gathered round the stalk and pinned with a long, strong pin. It is necessary that the covering of the tassel should be done before the anthers have protruded, and that of the silk before this has begun in the least to appear outside of the husk. The best time for pollination is when the silks have grown to a length of 5 or G inches, having remained in the bag the whole time As the ^ilks
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