. Actualités agricoles. Agriculture -- Antilles ; maladies des plantes -- Antilles. 324 L'ACTUALITÉ AGRICOLE ? Le 12 octobre 1912.. Les FRUITS ET LES ARBRES. Coton, soie OU KAPOK. Plus d'information concernant le coton, soie ou Kapok comme il est habituellement connu dans le commerce-principalement le produit de l'arbre-anfractuomm Eriodendron hus été donnée dans la presse agricole, et de référence pour les principaux articles portant sur le produit peut être trouvé à la page 117 de ce volume. Il est prévu maintenant pour compléter cette information par des détails tirés de diverses sources qui seront mentionnés. Le chef producteur de kapo

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. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 324 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS? October 12, 1912.. FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. SILK COTTON, OR KAPOK. Much information concerning silk cotton, or Kapok as it is usually known in commerce—chiefly the product of the tree Eriodendron anfractuomm—hus been given in the Agricultural News, and reference to the principal articles dealing with the product may be found on page 117 of this volume. It is intended now to supplement this information by details taken from various sources which will be mentioned. The chief producer of kapok is Java, where the trees are grown systematically for their produce. A table showing the exports of the fibre from that country, given in the Philippine Agricultural Review ior August 1912, indicates that these rose from 1, 500 tons in 1890 to 3, 500 tons in 1900; five years later the shipments were 6, 300 tons, and in 1910' they amounted to 7, 930 tons. The total export of kapok from the Dutch East Indies in 1910 was 8, 625 tons. No such systematic cultivation of the plant exists in the Philippines, where there is only a comparatively small pro- duction—in 1905, 4 tons, in 1910, 30 tons, and in 1911 98 tons. Observations made by the Philippine Bureau of Agriculture have caused it to be estimated conservatively that the annual yield of silk cotton trees under seven years old is 3^ to 5i lb. of fibre, older trees give 72 ft. or more. Trees of the former age are considered to be giving a fair produc- tion when they yield three to five hundred fruits in a year; those that are older may give as many as 1, 000 fruits, but this is exceptional. There is much variation in the size of the fruits, for sometimes it takes only sixty of these to give 1 ft. of clean fibre; in other cases the number may be as high as 120, or even higher. The yield of the fibre is 58 to 65 per cent, of the weight of the seed. These figures refer to investigations in the Philippines. The value of kapok has ri

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