A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 





Vol. III. No. 70. 



BARBADOS, DECEMBER 17, 1904. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Agi'icultur.il Sliows: — 



Forthcoming 413 



Jamaica 41.3 



Tobago, School 413 



TiiiiidaJ, School 



Garden 413 



Arbor Day : — 



Dominica 403 



Moiitserrat. 403 



Bread-fruit Menl 404 



Citnjiiella Grass in 



Ceylon 410 



Colonial and Indian 



Exhibition 409 



Cotton Industry : — 

 ConsuMijition and 



Sujiply 405 



Jamaica 405 



Lectures at Antigua ... 408 



Picking 405 



Prospects of Crop ... 405 

 Sea Island Market ... 405 



Department News 407 



Department Reports, 



Jiimuica 411 



Dominica Fruit for 



London Exhibitions 404 

 Fruit Trees, Roiid-side 



planting of 413 



Gleanings 41ii 



Insect Notes, St. Vincent 410 



Jamaica : — 



Exports of 



Minor Industries in . 



Market Reports 

 Martini({ue, Kxporis of 

 Melo-coton ... ... . 



Page. 



... 409 

 ... 414 



... 415 



408 

 411 



408 



404 



Notes and Comments . 



Granges in Porto Rico . 

 I'etroleum Resources of 

 West Indies ... . 

 Royal Horticultural 



Society's Exhibition ., 

 Sheep, Afi-'can Hairy . 

 Sugar Industry : — 



(iermany 



Jamaica 



' Male ' Sugar-canes . 

 Tropical Hygiene, 



Lectures on 

 Vanilla : — 



In the Seychelles 



Supports for 



West Indian Agricultnral 

 Conference, 1905 :- 

 List of Representatives 

 Programme of Pro- 

 ceedings ... 

 Visits and Excursions 407 

 West Indian Products in 



London 414 



409 



404 



407 



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411 



408 

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401 



40G 



... 400 



West Indian Agricultnral Con- 

 ference, 1905. 



i^^ [f^Jt* HE arrangements for the forthcoming Con- 

 ference are in course of being completed, 

 and there is every prospect that it 



will be even more successful than any of its pre- 

 •decessors. As already announced, the Conference will 



be opened in the Council Chamber at the Prince's 

 Buildings, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, on Wednesday, 

 January 4, and it will probably close on Wednesday or 

 Thursday in the following week, viz., on January 

 11 or 12. 



The Conference will thus extend over several 

 days. At previous Conferences, owing to the difficulty 

 with regard to steamer services, two days only were 

 available. This, therefore, is the first occasion on 

 which it will be possible for the Representatives to 

 deal fully and exhaustively with the numerous and 

 important subjects brought before them. Hitherto, 

 owing to the limited time at their disjjosal, some 

 subjects on the progrannne of proceedings had to be 

 omitted altogether, while the discussion on others had 

 to be compressed within such narrow limits as to 

 greatly lessen its value. 



The Representatives will consist, as heretofore, of 

 the principal officers connected with the Chemical, 

 Botanical and Educational services, and the scientific 

 officers on the staff' of the Imperial Department of 

 Agriculture. The Representatives of the Agricultural 

 Boards and of the chief Agricultural Societies in the 

 West Indies have in many cases already been appointed, 

 and there is little doubt that in this respect the 

 forthcoming Conference will be reinforced by members 

 of the planting community whose recommendations 

 and opinions will be listened to with due attention. 

 The total number of Representatives will probably 

 be less than on jirevious occasions, no doubt owing 

 to the longer time they will be required to be 

 absent from their homes. On the other hand, those 



