A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. III. No. 60. 



BARBADOS, JULY 30, 1904. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 Agricultural Industries 



in the West Indies 241 

 Agriculturiil Schiml, 



Doniinic.i 24" 



Agricultural Shows, 



Circular to Exhibitors 254 



Bananas, Consumption in 



United States 244 



Cacao, Yield in Dominica 246 

 Castor oil jdant in Ceylon 249 

 Cotton Notes: — 



St. Lucia 245 



Seed oil in .\ustria ... 245 

 Shipment of West 



Indian 245 



Danish West Indies, 



Grasses and Cattle in 249 



Department News 251 



Department Reports : — 



British Honduias ... 253 



Trinidad 253 



Educational: — 



British Guiana, Agri- 

 cultural Apjjreutices 251 

 St. Lucia, .School 



Garden in 251 



Falkland Islands, Agri- 

 culture in 249 



Gleanings 252 



Page. 



Insect Notes : — 



.■Vuto-sju-ay 



Black grubs 



Dry powder Gun 

 Jamaica, Government 



Laboratory 



Kaolin in St. Kitt's 



Market Rei)0i'ts 



Notes and Conuuents ... 



f)il of Ben 



Onions : — • 



Bacterial rt)t 



Cultivation in Jamaica 



West Indian Trade in 

 Our Book Shelf:— 



Senior Country 



Reader, III 



Pine-apj)les, Gathering 



Poultry Notes 



Rabbit Kee))ing 



Rubber planting in 



Ceylon 



Sisal Ex ports from Mexico 

 Sugar Industry : — 



Cane farming at Nevis 



Blanurial Experiments 



P(ato Rico 



West Indian Fruit in 



Londim 244, 



West Indian Products ,.. 



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The Acyriciiltural Industries of the 



West Indies. 



X his lecture to the members of the West 

 India Committee on the ' Agricultural 

 Industries of the West Indies,' Sir Daniel 

 Jlorris gave an account of the progress of agriculture 



in these colonies since the inauguration of the Imperial 

 Department of A.griculture. We give the following 

 brief sunimary of the lecture. 



There was among some people an idea that the 

 West Indies were played out or could not compete with 

 other countries on account of want of land : that was 

 altogether erroneous. It was estimated that there 

 were still some 2,000,000 acres of uncultivated land, 

 suitable for bearing crops of some kind. Much of this 

 was not, of course, suitable for bearing large crops of 

 sugar, cacao, bananas, etc., but there were other 

 industries capable of being started on such land, and it 

 was part of the work of the Imperial Department of 

 Agriculture to carry on e.xperiments that would lead to 

 the profitable cultivation of such industries on remunera- 

 tive lines. 



After indicating briefly the more important lines 

 of work in which the Department was engaged, 

 Sir Daniel referred to the sugar-cane e.xperiments. 

 These were devoted to raising new varieties of canes 

 for the purpose of increasing the yield of sugar per acre 

 and of obtaining disease-resistant canes; also to testing 

 the relative values of manures and the most economical 

 methods of cultivation. Altogether there were about 500 

 acres under sugar-cane experiments in the West Indies 

 A ver}' considerable number of new canes was raised 

 every year. Only very few of these proved worthy of 

 being cultivated on a large scale. The work was still in 

 the experimental stage but was nevertheless full of 

 promise. The area planted in new seedling canes in 

 British Guiana comprised about 13,000 acres. In Bar- 



