A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. I. No. 10. 



BARBADOS, AUGUST .30, 1P02. 



Feice 1(^ 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



Bee-keei)ing : — 



Foul brcioJ, cure for ... 



Grunada 



Cacao, Expcriiueiit pints 



at Grenada 



Commercial 



Cotton Growing in tlie 

 Leeward Islands 



Dei)artiuent News 



Dei)artnient R_'ports : — • 

 Association of otHcial 

 Agricultural Chemists 



Montserrat 



Dominica, Stock at Agri- 

 cultural Sclioo' 

 Educational : — 



Agricultural scliools, 



examinations 



Jamaica, Instruction tc 



Teacliers 



Stock at D' iminica Agri 



cultural .School 



Englisli Potatos 



Insect Notes : — 



Insect moults 



Scale Insects and moulds 152 

 Lime industry, Montser- 

 rat 14!) 



1.52 

 1.52 



1.54 

 15^ 



15:5 

 IS- 



IS? 

 157 



... 15(i 



1.56 



156 



1.56 

 14!) 



1.55 



Market Reports 

 Notes and Comments 



Page. 



... 158 

 ... 150 



evidently po.s.ses.se.s a wide knowledge of his subject. 

 He starts with the statement that the 'West Indian 

 sugar industry is suffering not only from the effects 

 of the bounties but from a deeply-seated internal 

 disease.' With regard to the latter, it is pointed out 

 that e\en in the sugar factories with good machinery 

 ' there has been no corresjwnding improvement in the 

 management of that machinery or in the manijjulation 

 of the juice . . . in many West Indian sugar-houses 

 that important officer, a chemist, is absent, while 

 in others he merely accumulates a mass of figures 

 ami statistics which are not turned to any })ractical 

 account . . . there is frequently a lamentable want 

 of co-ordination between the different departments 

 . . . the economy of labour and the adoption of labour- 

 saving devices . . . have hardl}' begun to be seriously 

 studied.' 



Our Book Shelf: — 

 ' Feeds and feeding' 

 'Le cacao, sa cidture et 



sa preparation' 



'St. Vincent Soufriere' 1.55 

 Straits Settlements 



'Agricultural HuUetii 

 Trinidad, 'Bulletin of 

 miscellaneous . infor- 



matiim' 



' Tropical Agriculturist' 



Poultry 



Rice cultivaci(m in British 



Guiana 



Stock and aromatic grasses 157 

 Sugar Industry : — 



Cro.ss fertilization in 



Java 14(5 



Production in St. Lucia 147 



Mdascuit 147 



Surra disease in horses... 147 

 Tobago, notes from ... 148 

 West India Isinglass ... 154 

 West Indian Sugar Indus- 

 try 145 



155 



155 

 1.55 



155 



1.55 

 1.55 

 154 



... 152 



West Indian Sngar Indnsti*}- 



XDER the title of 'The We.st Indies: 

 a Warning and a Way' Mr. Norman Lament 

 has contributed to Tlte. Empire Review for 

 August a thoughtful article which deserves more than 

 a passing notice. Mr. Lamont is proprietor of one of 

 the most important sugar estates in Trinidad, and 



Turning to the Held, Mr. Lauiont is of opinion 

 ' the case is still more deplorable.' E.xcept in a few 

 localities 'the various operations incident to the 

 preparation and tillage of the soil are all performed 

 b}- hand at an enormous cost . . . rotation of crops 

 is scarcely practised . . . ratooning i.s still largely 

 in vogue and naturally diminishes the j-ield per 

 acre ... in the vital matter of the application 

 of chemical fertilizers to the soil, there is room for the 

 greatest improvement ... at present they are usually 

 a})plied in an utterly hajihazard manner.' 



After reviewing the nature of the internal disease, 

 Mr. Lamont endeavours to point out the cause : — 'The 

 West Indian backwardness is directly due to two 

 causes : first, the abundance of labourers, working for a 



