, 1889-08-14
BabadOs New S.

admirable tor growing crops of all sorts,
being what is called by thu Planters,
forcing weather, soaking showers at in.
tervalS, chiefly at nights, with hot suns.
AT the same time these hot suns were for
many days last week tempered, for those
whose business did not take them outside,
by fresh trade winds. Indeed, both on
Saturday and on Sunday night last it blew
an infant gale, doing no more damage, how.
ever, than the ~prOvOcatlon of a little anx-
iOus excitement on the part of a few timid
ones. For the last few days the sun has
been unusually hot. The returns which
have reached us from the various parishes
shew that last mOnth-June, was a 'glori-
GUS mouth for the Planters, with the
exception of the few unlucky ones who
had not succeeded in converting all their
canes into sugar. The young cane crop,
owing to the prOpitlous weather of the
last few weeks, has made prodigious
Improvement, especially in those places
where artificial fertilizers have been APP
piled without niggardlintSS. Planters
everywhere have very wisely taken adj
vantage of the kind weather not only to
apply artificial manures to The Young canes.
but also to remove from them shoots which
We're either too forward or were attacked
toy the b0rer worm, as we'll as to mould
up any backward 'suppheS,-with the
result that there is Il feeling of satisfaction
everywhere prevailing with regard to the
appearance of the growing cane crop.
The rainfall for last month has been rather
above the average; and, as our Planters
have an Old planters saw 20 the effect
that a kind June fOrebodes q kind year,
we look forward with some hope to a good
growing year. 1t would Of course be folly
fO ItfPmnt tn nGOnIpSV DC tO fba nrON Fnu
next year at this early stage. 1t will be
rene mbeIed that the crop of last year.
which presented such a magnificent an
pearance up to the month of October, was
crippled, by at least WOO, by the October
December drought. But, from all we
learn the present growing crop will com.
pare very taVOuraOly with the young crop
OF last year at a corresponding date.
There are, as We understand, some half
dozen estates or SO III st. John, st.
Andrew, and St. James, which have not
Yet quite completed their reaping opera.
tons; but, OF course the crop may be prac-
tlcally said to be at an end. The quantity
OF prodnCr tx. Orted to date has been 55Ol0
hhd,. of sugar, and 81 ,049 puns. of molasSeS
against 1907 hhdS. of sugar, and 3494S
puus. OF molaSSeS, at the corresponding
period OF last year. We regret We cannon
write SO cheerfully as we did in our last
summary as to the price Of sugar. The
kilograms for more than a week now have
shewn a decided downward tendency in
the English market, and this has had a
corresponding depressing effect upon our
local market. We have the following ex
tracts from the last Planters Journal. =
st. Philip :-"Sugar manufacture ~ now
a thing entirely out of oar reckoning, and
Rum making alone joys along on the V. p.
Estates, its manufacture having been EN-.
tirely abandoned on all other estates.
How times have changed /! In days gone
by every estate, certainly such as made
100 hhds. of sugar, had it's Distillerv: now
] suppose there are scarcely 100 Distille-
RES i'll the whole island, several of these
being in the Towns. The price of rum. in
sympathy with that of sugar and molass.
es, is up, and we have to pay a little
more for our glass of grog.
There has been, this season. a difficulty
attending the application of the artificial
manures, consequent on the canes being
so forward in some fields, rendering that
hole to hole supervision, SO essential 10 the
equal distribution of the manure. an i'm.
possibility. This has been in a great mea.
sure Oc0asioned by the unwillineness of
planters to apply the stuff until lain fell
it being a moot point amongst US, unpro.
fesslonal men, whether or not harm is
likely to accrue to the plants from manures
being applied in dry weather. Perhaps,