A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. III. No. 56. 



BARBADOS, JUNE i, 1904. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Agricultural Societies : — 



Oreiiiula J78 



Arbor Day nt Jamaica ... 187 



Avooatld I'ear 187 



Barbailds : — 



Bananas 181 



Ddclds Reformatory ... 189 



British (iuiana. Instructor 

 ii! Agriculture 1?(> 



Cotton : — 



Barliad.is, Industry at 182 

 Barbados, recent Sales of 1 82 

 Diseases and Parasites 



of 183 



Factories at Barbados 

 and St. Vincent ... 186 



Jamaica 18.'5 



Lectures on 184 



Montserrat 185 



New Pamphlet on ... 185 

 St. Vincent Factory .. 184 

 Ui>land 182 



Department News 187 



Dejiartment Reports : — 



British Guiana 189 



Educational:— 



Jamaica, Agricultural 



Scliolarshiiis 187 



Page. 

 Educational :- - 



St. Vincent Agricultural 



School 187 



Scliool Gardens 1 87 



Forest Reserves 189 



Fruit, Handling and 



Packing 181 



Gleanings 188 



Jamaica Tea 180 



Love Vine, Destruction 



of 185 



Malaria and Mosquitos 183 



Market Rei)orts 191 



Minor Industries at 



Barbados 177 



Notes and Comments ... 184 

 Royal Mail Steam Packet 



C 185 



Rublier in Samoa 190 



Sugar Industry : — 



British Guiana, Seedling 

 canes in 180 



Cuba, Experiments in 179 



Queensland, West Indian 

 Seedling canes in ... 180 

 Toronto Exhibition, 1904 184 

 West Indian Products ... 190 



Minor Industries at Barbados. 



HE Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture 

 addressed a special meetinff of Barbados 

 l)lanters on Tuesday, May 31, on the 



minor industries of the island. His Excellenc}- the 

 Governor presided. 



Sir Daniel Morris offered his congratulations to 

 the planters on the very promising outlook for the 

 sugar industry. While the Department had given, 

 and would continue to give, every possible attention to 

 this, their main, industry, it was necessary that they 

 should look around for other industries to supple- 

 ment it. They would thus be ensuring their prosperity^ 

 by establishing these industries. There were two or 

 three such industries capable of considerable develop- 

 ment — industries for which they might utilize lands 

 not particularly well suited to sugar-cane cultivation. ■ 

 It was of these that he wished to speak that afternoon. 



First, with regard to the cotton industry. They 

 had shipped to England about 300 bales, and the 

 result was that they had established a reputation in 

 Lancashire for Barbados cotton — for a cotton which 

 was probably superior to any received from the United 

 States. This was the result of about^ fifteen months' 

 experimenting. Last season's experience had, in one 

 sense, been unfortunate : this was due to poor seed, 

 their inexperience with regard to the right time for 

 planting, and the cotton worm. Still, he considered 

 that the almost pre-eminent jDosition Barbados cotton 

 had attained should encourage them to increase its 

 production. He hoped that some 1,200 acres would be 

 planted next season, and that should increase their 

 exjwrt from 300 bales to something like 1,200 bales. 



