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A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



•jARDEN 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. III. No. 66. 



BARBADOS, OCTOBER 22, 1904. 



Peice Id. 



CONTENTS. 



AiTOWiout, St. Vincent.. 



Bee-lcoe])ing Industiy in 



Janiaicii 



Brazil, Agriculture in .. 



Cacao manurial Exjieri- 

 uionts at (irenada .. 

 Cassava in Jamaica 



Coffee, Quality of 



Cotton Industry : — 



Emergency Grants 



Gambia 



Montserrat 



St. Kitfs 



Tol)ago 



West Indies 



Virgin Islands 



Date Palms for Arbor 



Day Planting 



. Dsimrtment Ne\vs 



Department Reports : — 



Hawaii 



Porto Rico 



r'AGE. 

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345 



347 

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 345 



344 

 341 

 341 

 341 

 3il 

 344 

 341 



347 

 34'» 



340 

 ... 349 



East Africa, Notes from... 342 

 Educational : — 



Nature Teaching ... 350 



Fruit Imports of the U.S. 340 



Gleanings 348 



Insect Notes : — 

 Cacao, Insects of 

 Cocoa-nuts, Scale 



Insects on 



Cotton Boll Weevil, 



Enemy of the 



Job's Tears as Poultry 



Food 



Market Rei)orts 



Notes and Comments ... 

 Oranges, Cultivation in 



Dominica 



Pine-api)les in Ha^vaii ... 



Poultry Notes 



Breeding Turkeys 

 Science Notes :- - 



AtiiK isjjheric Nit n 'gen. 



Fixation of 



Sisal Hemp in the Caicos 



Islands 



Si>ices in Zanzibar 



Sugar Industry : — 

 Experiments at Bar- 

 bados 



Uganda, Resources of 



Western 



West Indian Products ... 

 West Indies and Cryst 

 Palace Exhibition 



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346 



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342 

 351 



344 



340 

 340 

 343 

 343 



343 



342 

 340 



338 



345 



350 



. 350 



Bee-keeping Industry in Jamaica. 



F all the British West India Islands 

 Jamaica is the only one in which the 

 bee-keeijing industry has attained a really 

 important position. It is probably not generally- 

 realized that the annual exports of honey froin Jamaica 



are \vorth about £10,000, and those of wax over £6,000. 

 Of recent years much progress has been made in this 

 industry, and Jamaica has won a good name in the 

 markets for both honey and wax. 



The following figures, giving the amount and 

 value of the exports of honey during the past 

 six 3"ears, are of particular interest in indicating the 

 material progress that has been made: — 1S97, 2,440 

 cwt. (£1,891): 1898, 4,9.S4 cwt. (£2,124) ; 1899, 5,037 

 cwt. (£.3,073): 1900, 8,174 cwt. (£6,539): 1901, 13.423 

 cwt. (£10,7.38): 1902, 16,804 cwt. (£9,241). These 

 figures are obtained from the annual report of the 

 Collector General for the year 1901, who states : 'The 

 improvement in the exports of honey bears witness to 

 the combined intelligence and patience which are 

 being brought to bear on the production of minor 

 products. Bee keepers have adopted centrifugal 

 apparatus for expelling the honey from the comb, and 

 the comb itself, instead of being melted down as 

 heretofore, is returned uninjured to the hive, thus 

 considerably increasing the output of the more 

 valuable product, honey, whilst reducing that of wax.' 



In that wa}', then, can we account for the decline 

 of recent years in the export of wax from the island. 

 In 1898, 1.590 cwt. were exported, of the value of 

 £10,388: in 1902, the amount was 992 cwt., and the 

 value £0,020. 



There is no doubt that the progress of the 

 Jamaica bee-keeping industry is mainly due to the 

 efforts of the Jamaica Bee Keepers' Association. This 



