A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Price Id. 



Vol. I. No. 17. 



BARBADOS, DECEMBER 6, 1902. 



CONTENTS. 



Antigua, Arbor day in 



Banaii.as, Cultivation 



(c'Hitiitiial.) 

 Boc-keeping : — 

 Honey, Uses of ... 

 Jamaica 



Pake 

 ,. 204 



of 



201 



.. 2fi.5 

 .. 205 



Cocoa-nut oil meal 



Department News 



Dejiartment Publications 



Departmental Reports : — 



Cuba : TraJe of, for 



lltOl 



PAfiE. 



260 



lor. 



Grenada ; 



Station 

 Trinidad 



Education 190 1-L 

 Educational 

 Barbados 



Botanic 



Elementary 



Lectures to 



teacliers at 



School Gardens at Trini- 

 dad 



Fruit : Exportation of ... 



Gleanings 



Insect Kotes : — 

 A New Insecticide 

 Screw worm in Cattle 



Market Reports 



Notes and Comments ... 



2.")f) 

 207 



•272 



270 

 270 

 270 



2r,l 



200 

 200 



208 



204 

 204 

 271 



202 



of 



at 



207 



207 



207 



207 



260 

 266 



Oranges in the Sale Roon 

 Our B.iok Shelf : — 

 Bililiographia Jamaicen 



sis 



Moscpiito Brigades 

 The Natural History 



Plants 



West India 



Poultry :— 



Diseases 



Raising Chickens 



Grenada 



Science Notes : — 



Disintegration of Corals 200 

 Ether and Nitrogen-free 



Extracts ... 

 New method of treating 



Starch 



Sugar Industry : — 



Rout disease of Sugar- 

 cane 



Sugar-cane pests in the 



Hawaiian Islands ... 



Tomato seed, Cleaning ... 



Velvet Seeds 



Volcanic Dust, Analyses 



of 



Winter Visitors to the 

 West Indies 



269 



209 



258 



2.")8 

 270 

 205 



270 



Winter Visitors to the West Indies. 



. AST winter the number of visitors to 

 Jamaica was the hirgcst on record. It is 

 anticipated that during the coming winter 

 -an unusual number of vi.sitors will be attracted to 

 this part of the world to witness the effects of the 

 recent volcanic eruptions and enjoy the delicious 



climate and splendid scenery of these islands. The 

 steamers of the Ro3al Mail Steam Packet Company 

 leaving fortnight!}^ from Southampton are largely 

 patronized by winter visitors. The tour lasts sixty-five 

 days and extends to the Leeward and Windward Islands, 

 including Dominica, Martinique, St. Vincent, CJrenada, 

 Trinidad, LaGuayra, Caracas and J.imaica. The 

 steamers of the Iinjjerial Direct Line (Elder, Dempster 

 & Co.) communicating between Bristol and Jamaica, 

 also brinsr out a lar^e number of visitors. In fact, this 

 line offers special facilities for winter tours, and by its 

 means the beautiful island of Jamaica is brought into 

 closer touch with Europe than almost any part of the 

 West Indies. From the United States and Canada, 

 Jamaica ' the gem of the West Indies' may be reached 

 by the weekly t\\ in-screw steamers of the United Fruit 

 Company from Now York, Boston and Philadelphia. 

 The Quebec Steamship Company offers 'a special 

 thirty-da}' cruise through the Caribbee islands" in the 

 s. s. Madlava, leaving New York on February 7 for 

 Bermuda, St. Thomas or St. Croix, San Juan and Ponce 

 (Purto Rico), St. Kitt's, Dominica, Martinique, 

 St. Lucia, Demerara, Santiago and Havana (Cuba). 



A special twenty-one-day tour in the West Indies 

 is offered by F. C. Clark of Now York in the magnifi- 

 cent s. s. Kalserin (Maria Thcresd) leaving on 

 January 14, 1903. From Canada regular fortnightly 

 excursions to these islands are offered in the winter 

 season by Messrs. Pickford & Black of the Canadian & 

 Imperial Line of Steamers front St. John's, New 

 Brunswick, and Halitiix, Nova Scotia. The round trip 

 lasts about six weeks and facilities are afforded for 



