. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. SSf) THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS, November 23, GLEANINGS. The plant distribution from the Antigua Botanic Station during October included: limes 19,216, forest trees 577, coco-nuts 493, miscellaneous plants 34, sweet potato cuttings, 38,100, seeds 2 gallons and 8| lb. and 3 packages. The Bulletin of the Pan-American. Unioi> for August 1912 shows that the production of coffee in Guatemala during last year was about 645,000 cwt. At the end of the year there were in the State 2,156 coffee plantations, covering an
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. SSf) THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS, November 23, GLEANINGS. The plant distribution from the Antigua Botanic Station during October included: limes 19,216, forest trees 577, coco-nuts 493, miscellaneous plants 34, sweet potato cuttings, 38,100, seeds 2 gallons and 8| lb. and 3 packages. The Bulletin of the Pan-American. Unioi> for August 1912 shows that the production of coffee in Guatemala during last year was about 645,000 cwt. At the end of the year there were in the State 2,156 coffee plantations, covering an area of 880,320 acres. The Uganda Official ffa;f»e for September 15, 1912, con- tains a declaration by the Acting Governor of the Protectorate to the effect that epizootic lymphangitis is a disease, for the purposes of the Cattle Disease Ordinance, Uganda, 1902. An account of this disease was given ia the We$t Indian Bulletin, Vol. XII, p. 72. The values of the chief exports from British Honduras during 1911 were: chicle (see page 375) $968,392, mahogany *850,801, coco-nuts $131,140, bananas 193,392, cedar .*89,455, logwood 854,549, plantains $23,206, tortoiseshell ?*:19,485, and rubber 818,647. (From Colonial Reports — Annual, No. 733; October 1912.) Information received from the Director General of the Department of Agriculture, Egypt, shows that the cotton crop of both Upper and Lower Egypt was estimated at the beginning of last month to be above the average for the past ten years. The rice crop of Lower Egypt was below normal and that of tapper Egypt above normal. Among the plants distributed from the St. Lucia Botanic Station during October, there were chiefly: limes 6,350 and Para rubber 1,380. Smaller numbers of cacao plants, oranges, grafted mangoes and decorative plants and cuttings, as well as others, were also sent out. Ia the seed distribution there were 98 packets of vegetable seeds and -i-gallon of horse beans. Regarding the exhibit from Dominica at the Canadia
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