A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. III. No. .57. 



BARBADOS, JUNE 18, 1904. 



Peice Id. 



CONTENTS. 



^L A 



Pagk 

 Agricultural Education in 



Trinidad 



Agricultural Sliows : — 



British Guiana 



Algarrubilla Seed 



Arbcir Day : — 



Nevis 



lananas, Crates for 

 ee keeping : — 

 How to get Worker 



Couib built 



Cacao, Treatment of 



wounds 



Camphor 



Castor Oil Plant 



Citrus Seedlings versus 



Grafts 



Cotton : — 

 Cultivation in British 



Empire 



Ginning in Jamaica ... 



Lectures on 



Paris green in the Lee- 

 ward Islands 



Demonstration Farm, 



Value of 



Department News 



Department Publications 200 

 Diseases of Plants : — 



Citrus trees 109 



English Potato 199 



Tobacco 199 



■Eggs, Age of 202 



193 



205 

 195 



19G 

 190 



198 



195 

 201 

 203 



19G 



197 

 197 

 200 



197 



200 

 203 



Gleanings 



Guinea Corn, Diseases in 

 Madras 



Insect Notes : — 



Union Thrips 



St. Vincent ... 



Liberia, Vegetable 



products of 



Market Reports 



Notes and Comments ... 

 Our Book Shelf:— 

 A Research on the 



Eucalypts 



Eenige Pathologische 

 en Physiologische 

 Waarneniingen over 



Koffie 



Plaintain Fibre and 



Manila Hemp 

 Rabbits, Diseases of 

 Sheep Industry in 



Jamaica 



Spanish Needle 



Stock eating bark of trees 

 Sugar Industry : — 



British Guiana, 



Seedling canes in Cuba 

 West Indian Sugar in 



Canada 



Troi)ical Diseases, Preven- 

 tion of 



West Indian Products ... 



Page. 

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201 



202 

 202 



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 207 

 200 



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206 

 199 

 196 



194 

 194 



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206 



Afiricultural Education in 



Trinidad. 



S briefly mentioned in a recent issue of the 

 Agricidtund News, an interesting function 

 took place in Trinidad on May 9, when his 



E.wellency the Acting Governor presented to the Couva 

 Government School the silver medal, which has been 

 offered by the Agricultural Society for competition 

 among the schools exhibiting at the School Agri- 

 cultural Shows. 



The exhibition of products raised by pupils 

 attending elementary schools at the various Agri- 

 cultural Shows that have recentlj' been held throughout 

 the West Indies, has received considerable support and 

 encouragement from the Imperial Department of 

 Agriculture. We are therefore pleased to notice that 

 this matter has been taken up enthusiasticallj' in 

 Trinidad. 



At the meeting referred to Mr. J. H. Collens, the 

 Chief Inspector of Schools, briefl}' outlined the amended 

 programme for the conduct of these shows, which the 

 Government hoped to inaugurate. The exhibits at 

 future shows were to be divided into four main 

 sections. The first section was for vegetables, into 

 which it was desired also to introduce specimens of 

 grafted and budded fruit trees. The second was to be 

 for vegetable products. He would like to see samples 

 of starch, dr}- cacao and other products obtained 

 from vegetables freely grown in the colony. Some 

 inducement would also be offered for the exhibition of 

 good specimens of rope and twine. The third section 

 would be devoted to flowers, for they wanted to 

 encourage their pupils to beautify their gardens. The 

 fourth section was to contain specimens of needlework: 

 this was to be the girls' section. 



