A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



dl' THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. I. No. 4. 



BARBADOS, JIXE 7, \W2. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Paoe. 

 Agriculti ral investigations 



in tlie PInlliiiines 50 



Arbor Day.. 49 



Binls ami F'luit (51 



Blue Page Moth 5(5 



(.'liristoplnne recii)ei' 5S 



Cocoa-nut butter o.'i 



Condinient.s in stock feed... CO 



Connueicial 0.5 



Department New.s (iO 



Depai+nient Pulilicatiiins... (J4 



Educational : — 



Agricultural Teaching... 5!> 



Barbados 50 



Educati(jn of the Young 



Fanner 50 



Experiment Plots 51 



Fisheries — The Tarpon ... 5(i 

 Leprosy, reputed cure for G2 



Market Reports G.'? 



Milch Cows, care of... — 50 



Notes and Coianients : — 

 .Scientific r'ommissiou for St. 

 Viuceut : Juni;iic;i and Barba- 

 dos Maliogauy : New Milk 

 Stiiudai'd ; Biuldiiig Oiauges: 

 Grafting Coffee, Cjic-to, and 

 Nutmeg ; Lagos t^ilk lluliljei-; 

 Planting Coio : Hecoid 

 Baunna Export ; PrO'luctiou 

 and Cons.»ini)tiou of Coffee ; 

 Ai'bor Day foi' the West 

 Indies ;Xatiire ^^tiitly Exliibi* 

 tiou ; Manufacture of Papain 51 



P.\GE. 

 (-•nions : — 



Cultivation at Dominica 5S 



In New York Market ... oS 

 Para Rubber, cultivation of 5'J 

 Precocious germination in 



a melon 52 



Preservatives andccdouring 



matters in food 5(i 



Prickly heat 58 



Recent Report : - 



Decay of Timl)er til 



St. Lucia, agricultural notes 57 

 Science Notes : -- 



Ex|)erimental potato cul- 

 tivation (il 



Fever in plants (>l 



Soufriere Hinl (il 



.Sparrows 5-> 



Sugar Industry : — 



-■V[iplication of Nitrate of 

 Soda 5(1 



Collecting Moth-Borer 



eggs 50 



Tidxicco Cultivatiim : — 



Jamaica 5I{ 



St. Kitts 5:5 



Vanilla in the Seychelles (i("l 



Volcanic dust (>0 



West Indies : — 



Agricultural Institutions (>2 



Iland-Books (>2 



Yams in Tobago 58 



Voung Palm leaves (11 



ARB OR D AY. 



S tar as we are aware an Arl^or Dux 5I()\ i- 

 iiient lias not yet taken firm root in the 

 West Indies. The subject (which is discussed 

 elsewhere in these pages) has, on several occasiuns, been 



suggested in the pre.'^s and .spasmodic efit'orts have been 

 made by a te\\. We lecitr to it because we believe that 

 tlic proclaiuatioii of an Arbor day and the systematic 

 planting of ornamental and shade trees under suitable 

 auspices would greatly tend to advance the social and 

 public interests of these Colonies. 



The movement would be beneficial in many ways. 

 It would instil into thi' minds of the rising generation 

 the almost .sacred duty of trying to leave the world a 

 little better than they find it ; it would familiarize 

 tltem with the needs and requirements of plant life 

 and infuse a spirit of regard and affection for trees and 

 check the almost univer.sal desire, now existing, to cut 

 (1 iwn and destroy, rather than cherish, what might 

 become useful and ornamental. In this matter of 

 cutting down and destroying trees it has been remarked 

 titat many people ' hold the cent so clo.se to their eye 

 as to obscure the dollar beyond.' 



The .systematic care and attention to detail 

 called forth by the planting and nurture of even one 

 tree and watching its growth and development could 

 nut fail to have a formative effect on character. It would, 

 further, have a high educative value in cultivating 

 the lo\e of Nature and the obser\'ation and interpre- 

 tation of her wonderful laws. 



There are, also, to be considered the advantages to 

 the treneral communitv arising i'nmi the beneficial 

 infiuences of trees in affording delightful shade, in 

 .softening the torrid heat of the sun, and in providing 

 fuel and in bringing forth abundant fruit for man's 

 enioyment. 



