Agricultural news . is stillsome scarcity of this vegetable. The price in Bridgetowna few days ago was 84 cents per 100 ft. Indian corn is being sold at 7s. per bushel, and huckstersare selling the meal at the same price as at the date of ourlast report—4 cents per pint. The yam crop is developing well. If a favourable< )ctober assures a good return, the coming crop ought to bea satisfactory one. A few new yams have been sold at therate of 4 ft. for 10 cents. (The As,rkulli!ralReporter, October 5, 191S.) DEPARTMENT NEWS. The Imperial (oiniinssioiitT ot .\griculture has leftBarbad
Agricultural news . is stillsome scarcity of this vegetable. The price in Bridgetowna few days ago was 84 cents per 100 ft. Indian corn is being sold at 7s. per bushel, and huckstersare selling the meal at the same price as at the date of ourlast report—4 cents per pint. The yam crop is developing well. If a favourable< )ctober assures a good return, the coming crop ought to bea satisfactory one. A few new yams have been sold at therate of 4 ft. for 10 cents. (The As,rkulli!ralReporter, October 5, 191S.) DEPARTMENT NEWS. The Imperial (oiniinssioiitT ot .\griculture has leftBarbados for St. Vincent with the object of payinij anotlicial visit to that Colony. Sir Francis Watts isexpected to return to P)arbados in about two weeks time. Mr. W. Nowel!, , Mycologist on the staff ofthe Imperial Department of Agriculture, has left torGrenada, at the request of the Government of thatisland, for the purpose of investigating a disease ofcoco-nuts. 3;:2 TEE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. : 19, GLEANINGS, As is -well known Zanziiiai and ieniba >up(iy most ol : used in the world. From the Annual Report on theAsricultural l^epartment of the Zanzibar Protectorate for theyear 191G which has Just btx-n received at this otfice it appearsthat the export of cloves had risen from £li,7s:^i,149 lb, in1910 to 25,lLo,464 lb. in 191-., although in 191C. it droppedto 20, ft-. Mr. R. R. Bennett, of the Drug Houses, Ltd., iuthe course of a lecture on -Progress on PharmaceuticalProducts, said that the total number of vegetable drugs whichhave become unobtainable owing to the closing of enemy countries is remarkably small, but the cultivation of drug-yieldingplants should be prosecuted in the United Ivinttdom to theutmost, and that the resources of our tolonies should bedeveloped to an increasing extent for the supply of vegetabledrugs which can not be grown -a home (.V(j/i/r,\ August iJ,U-IS.) Very considerable numbers ot odoriferous plants ar
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