Agricultural news . emand, and highprices have ruled for wood both for export and for use inthe local dye factories. The Government Stock Farm at Hope has had a success-ful! year. The attendance at the Farm .School has fallen offslightly, due to war conditions. It had been decided by theend of the year to convert the station at Lititz into a sisalhemp plantation, as the land proved to be suitable for stockrearing or general Iultivatinn. Preparations for plantingabout 600 acres in sisal and heneqnen have been made.^l this station. Tilled lands in 1915-16 comprised 278,262 acrfs ascompared with
Agricultural news . emand, and highprices have ruled for wood both for export and for use inthe local dye factories. The Government Stock Farm at Hope has had a success-ful! year. The attendance at the Farm .School has fallen offslightly, due to war conditions. It had been decided by theend of the year to convert the station at Lititz into a sisalhemp plantation, as the land proved to be suitable for stockrearing or general Iultivatinn. Preparations for plantingabout 600 acres in sisal and heneqnen have been made.^l this station. Tilled lands in 1915-16 comprised 278,262 acrfs ascompared with 271,382 acres for the period Landssubject to tillage are further cla,ssified under the particularcrops which they produce; the following figures give theacreage under each classification for : canes 33,830acres, coffee IS,3S3, coco-nuts 30,072, banana , cac»o11,432, ground provisions 64,082, mixed cultivation 28,103and minor itein~ 2,>83 acres. Vol. XVI. No. 3S8. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 71. VALUE OF RICE AS HUMAN FOOD. Much attention has been given at the ResearchInstitute at Pusa, India, to the chemical compositionof different kinds of of rice. According to the Reporton the Institute for , the composition of therices did not vary much, but the analytical figures allowan interesting deduction. The Report states: — The amounts of oil, fibre and ash vary between verynarrow limits, and the sura of these constituents will be moreor less constant. The sum total of the remainingconstituents af albuminoids and soluble carbohydrates i^thus also constant It was found that the sum of thepercentage figures for albuminoids and soluble carbohydrates,in all instances except three, fell between 94 and 9-3. Inthese three latter eases the figures were 939 and 95o. Butthe deviation is so small that the general observation may besaid to hold good in these ins-tances also. It was thus notedthat when the amount of albuminoids was high, thecarbohydrate content w
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