CEREALS IN INDIA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1116, 4 July 1882, Page 3

CEREALS IN INDIA.

;■;•>.. . ItomftexgerimSnls have beah madia at •' jli'e.-Cawnj#re diiring '■' ■'' x >-JB7B«sjop<the .''cultivation: •'of- 'imported ■: Americanjvfoeits andbarleys, • - ''■' - 1 The result ipemed .to ■pfin t to. the. con-. .. elusion that the"time aVajlable.for the ~''.. r growth of cereals inJndia'js" too abort to '' allow.the' English and American varieties ..being grown witlj success, .unless possibly ;.;.the seefris'sown:in September, and runs ■ v,\ , i a.Hsk"pf ; beingdamaßed by excessive heat. \ Experjfe'ntalsowings were made of three . v EfigHsh. and tn&a'i.kindi of American , wheat'f,M. well a 8 three kinds of barley. y • All nine'sowings were■'complete failures, '.. : - The seeds in moat cases^etminatedfreelyi and the plants spread out.iuto stools in a •maniier Terydifforent to. the habit of ' country wheat, But all crops grew £ . excessively slow and'-were still green : when native wheat had finished ripening; . la oonsequencß, the."ioi'wipdfl of March ; ,-. completely, shriyelled up Whatever grain ;..,' ,|j|ad'.bee,D.fprmed ; ,and,no orop worth.the ■.,.;

MILK. ■' ',..g/., f ..'•» ~;";;' ■ roniwdts'apl'ear in a lato fiUrhber.of ihb Aujitipflraatfiii:!— cxportin« per Lusitania has not received-the notice of.wliipli such an event is deserving. Every . incident that.has a tendenoy to facilitate die opening up of new foreign, markets for what may be termed the' natural.prnduots of agriculture in this country should be carefully watohod. Frozen meat is no novelty in England, but the article, even when frozen, » speedily used, not kopt for months, as it possibly will be in this instance. Should tho plan succeed, tflo days of milk condensing will be uumbered, and milch cons need no longer bo carried as Btom stock, with the possibility of their bringing and spreading some new iufootious disease. It will be rometnbered that rinderpest was introduced to Shanghai by a milch cow bought from the French mail steamer, which had carried the auim:.l all tho way from France. The dangar we run of introdu* ting infectious cattle diseases through the milch cow? usually carried on passenger ships has caused much serious thought to the heads of stock departments in the Australian col . as, If the Lusitiania milk experiment proves successful there need be no hesitation prohibiting the presence of milch cows on board.