A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. I. No. 9. 



BARBADOS, AUGUST 16, 1902. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Pack. 



.f 1809 to 



Biirbiidds : — 

 Sugar Crops 



1902 131 



Cacao : — 



Apjiearance of pods as 



tu.st of purity 130 



Citrus Fruits, .stock for... ]32 



Commercial 142 



Coral Snakes 131 



Department Reports: — 

 St. Kitts-Nevis, Botanic 



Station l!>01-2 141 



Toba;^o, Botanic St;ition 



1901-2 141 



Educational : — 



School Gardening ... 139 



Fislieries ; — 



Tarpon at Grenada ... 130 

 Game sliooting at Barbu- 

 da 133 



Grape culture at Grenada 132 

 Ground-nuts, Barliados... 1.'50 

 Gunga in the West Indies 130 



Insect Notes : — 



An attic full of honey... 140 

 Pres(;rving Books ... 140 

 Uses of Carbon Bisul- 

 phide 140 



fAdK. 



Market Reports 142 



Notes and Comments . . . 134 



Our Book Shelf :^ 



Lectures on some of the 

 physical properties of 

 soil 139 



Pine apples with cocks- 

 comb heads 130 



Porto Rico, Tobacco, 

 Coft'ee, Fruit, Rice 

 and Cotton 141 



Poultry 138 



Rum manufacture, Exjiert 



for Jamaica 131 



St. Lucia Arrowroot ... 132 



Sugar Industry: — 



Crops at Barbados, 



1899-1902 131 



Ex|)ert for Rum manu- 

 facture 131 



Tol)acco, Experiments at 



St. Kitts 130 



Trinidad Trade 13G 



Vanilla, cultivation in 

 the Seychelles (cdu- 

 chulnl) 1.33 



West Indian Bulletin ... 129 



West Indian Bulletin. 



,';5jj^' he ])ublication of the July inimber (Vol. 

 Ill, No. 2) of the West Indian Bulletin, 

 the quarterly Scientific Journal of the 

 Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West 



Indies, aftVinls a convenient opj)ortunity for drawing 

 attention to the extent to which the Bulletin might 

 be utilized as a means for impnning the agricultural 

 resources of these Colonies. Each number contains 

 about one hundred pages of original matter, all directly 

 bearing on West Indian conditions and written by men 

 of wide experience and undoubted authority on the 

 subject on which they treat. The four numbers issued, 

 each year, form a volume of about four hundi-ed 

 pages with a title-page and index complete. The 

 articles that have already appeared deal with several 

 important questions affecting the sugar industry and 

 present a summary of the latest results of experiments 

 carried on in the West Indies and in all the 

 leading sugar-cane g;rowing countries of the world. 

 It is not too much to claim that the West Indian 

 Bulletin is indispensable to every progressive sugar 

 planter in these colonies and it is the planter's own 

 loss if he does not fully avail him.self of the valuable 

 information so plainly worded and conveniently placed 

 within his reach. Similarly with regard to the cacao 

 industry which, next to sugar, is the most important of 

 any in this part of the world. An exhaustive series of 

 articles on the fungoid and insect diseases of cacao 

 has appeared in the Went Indian Bulletin with clear 

 and ])ractical hints for dealing with them whenever 

 and wherever they occur. 



In the cun-ent number of the Bidletin the first 

 article recounts the results of efforts, during the last 

 three years, to introduce the teaching of the principles 

 of agriculture into the colleges and schools in the West 

 Indies. The several colonies dealt with, according 



