A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



NEW YORK 



BOTANICAL 



GARDEN 



Vol. I. No. 2. 



BARBADOS, ^lAY 10, 1902. 



Price Id 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



Bee Keeping, Jamaica ... 2f) 

 Boards of Agriculture ... 17 



Cacao Flower '25 



Central Auiorican Rubber 

 as shade for Cacao 



(illustrated) 21 



Chitin 28 



Department News 28 



Department Publications. . . 32 



Dominica : — • 



Agricultural Progress at.. 25 

 Cacao Drier (with dia- 

 gram 1^ 



Stock Farm 20 



Educational : — 



Caml)ridge Local Exami- 

 nation 



Educational efforts in the 

 West Indies 

 Fisheries : — 



Artificial propagation of 



Sea-Eggs 



Tarpon 



Fruit Packing 



Garden Notes 



Ground Nut 



Leeward Islands, Sugar 



Industry 



Market Reports 



Moulds 



Notes and Comments : — ■ 



. 27 



A^ricultui-fil Sliows, Troatiug 

 C:iue Plauts with Tar, i^^Hfar 



Pacje. 



Notes and Comments : — contd. 

 Cane Ciou iu Europe. Proiluc- 

 tioii of IJeet ;^uf:r;ir, A New Ity- 

 Prodiiet of sug:M*, New V:irie- 

 tio3 of B!iiian;is, Peppers Of 

 Chili Peppers. Pl;iating 

 Or.ingo Trees, C^ottou Produc- 

 tions in tiie West Indies. 

 Joiirnul Janiulca A^ricultnr.^1 

 Society, Volcanic nsh at Bar- 

 Ijjilos, Ajjricultiir.ll develop- 

 meut in the B.-ihanias, Minor 

 Inilustries in Ceylon 22 



Onion Industry in Cuba ... 20 



Pcmd Flies 24 



Poultry 2C 



Recent Rejjorts : — 

 British Guiana, Botanic 



Gardens 2t) 



Louisiana, 'Feeding of 



Plantation Stock ... 29 

 Ceylon, Cacao Canker ... 2!) 



St. Lucia, Agricultural 



efforts, 25 



Scale Insects on Young 

 Phuits 25 



Science Note : — • 

 The Bird-Lime Tree ...28 



Seed Corn, Saving of ... 2t> 



Sugar Cane : — 

 Experiment at St. Kitts... 18 



West Indies : — 

 Agricultural Institutions.. 30 

 Hand-Books to .30 



Boards of A sericulture. 



T the recent West Indian Agricultural 

 Conference an interesting account (since 

 published in the West Indian Bulle*in. 

 Vol. Ill, pp. 93-96) was given of the formation 



of Boards of Agriculture at Jamaica and British 

 Guiana. The creation of these Boards is an impor- 

 tant event in the agricultural history of the West 

 Indies. Several valuable organizations. Botanical, 

 Chemical and other.?, existing in these Colonies have 

 hitherto been working on independent lines, and nuicli 

 time and energy have been lost. The object of the 

 Boards of Agricidture is to combine all the functions 

 of these organizations, bring them under the immediate 

 cognisance of the Government and promptly put them 

 into practice. The fundamental difference between, a 

 Bjard of Agriculture and an Agricultural Society, is 

 that the former is an administrative Department with 

 power to control public o.'ficors and furnished with 

 funds voted by the Li'gislature. An Agricultural 

 Society, on the other hand, may or may not include 

 scientific and technical officers in the public service 

 amongst its members; but, in any case, it has no 

 power to direct or control them, and it.3 functions, 

 usually, are to advise and .suggest rather than take 

 indejaendent action. 



As stated by Mr. Olivier ' for general purposes of 

 business it is unqviestionable that when a Colony has a 

 Colonial Secretary whom the Board of Agriculture 

 can regard as a sufficiently competent Chairman, it 

 is a distinct advantage to have him in that post.' 

 Mr. Olivier, himself, is Chairmanof the Agriculttu'al Board 

 of Jamaica and Mr. A. A. Ashmore, the Go\'ernment 

 Secretary, is Chairman of the Agricultural Board of 

 British Guiana. At Jamaica the Board includes, in 

 addition to the ofliciid, scientific ani technical officers, 



