. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. l'.>: THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Ji li 31, GLEANINGS. TheSl Lucia Gazetu for Julj •">. 1915, publishes the llfor an Ordinance ;istration, encourage- ment and a Itural Credit Soi iel ies in I hal Colony under the Raiffeisen system. According to the Mirror of Trinidad (June 28, 1915), very <lr\ weather has been experienced in Tobago n in man] places young corn cultivations h ive been .loti. .\ i ., valued it £3,262. Tobacco planting is said to be very popular among the proprietors in Tobago. A note i


. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. l'.>: THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Ji li 31, GLEANINGS. TheSl Lucia Gazetu for Julj •">. 1915, publishes the llfor an Ordinance ;istration, encourage- ment and a Itural Credit Soi iel ies in I hal Colony under the Raiffeisen system. According to the Mirror of Trinidad (June 28, 1915), very <lr\ weather has been experienced in Tobago n in man] places young corn cultivations h ive been .loti. .\ i ., valued it £3,262. Tobacco planting is said to be very popular among the proprietors in Tobago. A note in the London Chamber ot Commerce .Journal for June 1915, deals with ipecacuanha from Brazil. In the year 1910, I2,368Ib. was exported which gradually rose to 75,07 8tt>. in 1914. This plant, which is well known in the West [ndies contains in its root a valuable drug which has Beveral uses in medicine. Ipecacuanha is a constituent of Mine oi ipecacuanl i and of Dover's powder, and is now ? iin forms nt dysentery. Aci ording to thi Plant hanges are in contemplation as regards the extension oi the United re' Association of Southern India. It is pi to establish new rul I i off i tatioi md to employ ili' It is unlikelj. hi>v thai thi « ill be availabl cisting disturbed condil Ifait tcl The -1 ontains im int' i 't|i hi The Trinidad Mirror of June 12 last, records the fact that at the monthly meeting of the Agricultural Society held on the 11th, it was reported by the Secretary that the following Resolution approving of the holding of an Annual show in I'ort-of Spain had been passed by a joint Committee of the Board of Agriculture and the Agricultural Society: 'That in the opinion of this joint Committee it is desirable that an Annual Show be held in Port-of-Spain provided thai grants in aid to the extent of 1,000 dollars can be obtained over and above the contribution of the Agricultural Society, estimated at 500 dollars.' I luring the two year-, says the Louisiana Pl


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