A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. I. No. 8. 



EAltlSADOS, AUGUST 2, 1902. 



Price 1(/. 



CONTENTS. 



P.\(iF. 



Agricultural Societie.s : — 



Aiitigvia 323 



Ants on Lawn.s, to destroy 124 



Arrowrt ot, duty on 120 



rAcJE. 



Bee-keeping : — 

 Lizards and Bees. 

 >Stiiigle.ss Bees 



Coffea roliusta ... 

 ConiMiercial 



... 122 

 ... 122 



... 121 

 ... 12U 



Department New.s 121 



Department Pulilicatii.ns 127 

 De[)artment Reports ; — 

 Costa Kica — Trade of, 



1!M)1 12.5 



Trinidad Government 



Analyst 125 



Trinidad Government 



Stock Farms 



Educational : — • 

 Barbados 

 Briti.sli Guiana 

 Jamaica 



... 125 



123 

 123 

 123 



Insect Notes : 

 Mo.s<|\utos 

 Plague of 

 Grenada 



120 



Fl 



les at 



120 



Insect Notes- (contd.) 



Poultry 122 



Rul)ber Forests in the 

 Soudan 114 



Sugar Industr}' : — 



Experiments at Jam- 

 aica 114 



Forked Sug.ir-canes ... 115 

 How new jiests are 

 introduced 115 



Molasses as fond for 

 army horsesfivi/i <•/»//(■(/) 124 



Porto Rico 115 



Stunted and Rotten 

 canes 114 



Toronto Exliil)ition 121 



Vanilla, cultivation in 

 the Seychelles (mn- 

 fitiiia!) 110 



Prospects in Jamaica. 



X Thp Timf:< of June 28, there is an 

 iiiijiortant article entitled 'Jamaica Revis- 

 which deserves more than a passing 



itod '' 



notice. Januiica is an interesting and picture.sij 



island. It is one C)f' the oldest as well as one of 

 the largest of the British possessions in this part of the 

 World, and its fortunes are typical of what has 

 hajtpened, and is ha})pcning, in most of these Colonies. 



The economic condition of the island within the 

 last fifty years has depended almost entirely on the 

 exports of the fallowing commodities viz., sugar, and 

 rum, coffee and dye-wnixls. The sugar and rum exports 

 have unfortunately been steadily declining both in 

 quantity and value since emancipation ; the coffee 

 industry has suffered recurring periods of great de2)res- 

 sion due tn dmught and low ])rices; while the dye-wood 

 industry, principally logwood, has been so seriously 

 cri])pled, by falling off in demand, that its value has 

 fallen to almost one-third of its former dimensions. 

 Latterly the island has passed through an acute crisis 

 of a three-fold character — economical, financial and 

 political. The first was due to a singular concourse 

 of circumstances whereby all the staple industries were 

 depressed at one time. The financial situation already 

 acute was rendered more difficult by the burden 

 of an ' ill constructed, badly financed and unremu- 

 nerati\e railway.' The political crisis we need not 

 discuss. According to The Times ' never very serious 

 at any time — it is now less severe than ever.' 



The question of the moment is: How does 

 Jamaica stand financially and economically ; and 

 what are its prospects as compared with a few j-ears 

 ago ? According to the correspondent of Thr Times 

 ' there is manifest ])rogrcss in sewral directions and 

 in almost e\"er\' direction a fair prospect of further 

 iinprovcment. JIany economics have been instituted 



