A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. I. No. 11. 



BAU!!AI)()S, SEPTEMBEU 13, 1002. 



Price 1(/. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 

 Antigua, Lima industry 



of l(;5 



Barl);ul(is, Reptiles i>f ... 170 

 lJanau:is for Britisli INIar- 



ket 1G4 



Bee-kee])ing : — 



Production of Bias- wax 1(!5 

 Britisli Guiana: — 



Wealth of the Hinter- 

 land 105 



Corn, ahnormal sj)eciniens l(i;? 

 Cotton Growing in the 



Leeward Islands ... 109 



Dei)artment News 171 



Dejiartnient Pul)lications 175 

 Department Reports :— 

 Jamaica Government 

 Laboratory 173 



Educaticjnal : — 



Jamaica, Agrioultur.al 

 Training 102 



Page. 



Insect Notes : — 



Green Page Moth ... 108 

 Insects att.icking Bana- 

 nas ^ 108 



Language of Birds 171 



Market Reports 174 



News from the Islamls ... 172 



Notes and Connnents ... 100 

 Our Book Shelf :— 



Bernuida Lilj' diseasa... 171 

 Queensland Agricultural 



Journal 171 



Pine-apples, packing and 



shijjping of 104 



Pink Eye in Cattle 108 



Poultry 170 



Sugar-cane Experiments 161 

 Sugar Industry : — 

 Barbados, croi>s of, 1882 



to 1902 703 



Tick Dip 163 



West Indies, Agricultural 



Institutions 173 



Sugar-Caiie Experiments. 



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^?^^ HE detailed Repurfc on the Sii^'-ar-Can'' 

 -A^ Exponinents for 1809-1901 carried on at 

 ^yt-J^ Barbados, under tlio direction of the 

 Imp3rial Department of Agriculture, has recently been 

 publisho I. This consists of a bulky volume of 17h 

 jiages containing a mass of valuable information 



relating to seedling and other canes and manurial 

 experiments. The Demerara Dallij Clir^nucle reviews 

 this report as ftllows: — 



'In the cm-eriiig letter Messrs. Bovell and 

 d'Alljuipienpie explain that the work was comlucted at 

 Do Ids Botanic Station and at thirteen plantations 

 situated in differeiit, typical localities of the island. 

 The experimi'nts. tliey add, involved the growth, 

 reaping and analysis of about 1,000 plots of canes. 

 The voltnne before us is thus an ilhistration of the zeal 

 and industry with which the Barbados scientists are 

 prosecuting their anhious inquiries in behalf of the 

 West Indian sugar industry. As the head (juarters of 

 the Imperial Department of Agriculture, it is signifi- 

 cant that within the past few years Barbados should 

 have taken the leading jjlace in that branch of research 

 which had its origin in the island — the raisins: 

 of new species of canes by germination. There 

 can b3 n(j <loubfc tliat this important b:)tanical 

 discovery is destined to prove of real economic 

 value in connexion with the cane -sugar industry. 

 The returns contained in the report are most exhaustive; 

 and of all the varieties experimented with, it is again a 

 seedling, B. 20S, which holds the premier place. 

 Though this new variety heads the list for the first 

 time, it is a cane which has already given satisfactory 

 results in the island, and its characteristics, so far as 

 its cultivation in Barbados goes, may thus be said to be 

 fixed and reliable. The actual results of these 

 experiments were published in December, last, in an 

 epitomized form and have already been reviewed in 

 these columns. In the report under notice detailed 



