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A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 





Tftt. XVIII. No. 436. 



BARBADOS, JANUARY 11, 1919. 



Pricb 14 



Pagb. 



13 



Agricalcure in Barbadus... 7 



Australian Wines 11 



Bee Keeping — A Possible 



Help to Cotton Growers 5 

 Cane mrsus Beet Sugar ... 3 

 Cattle Raising in Britisli 



Guiana 



Co-operation among Agri- 

 cultural Workers . ... 1 

 Cotton — 



Acreage I'nder Cotton 



in St. Vincent 7 



Furtiier Development 

 in regard to British 



Cotton Growing *i 



Sea Island Cotton Market <! 

 f'owpea, Notes on Inheri- 

 tance in The 4 



Departmental Reports .. 14 

 Farui Tractors iu America 9 

 Fish, A Useful Little ... 8 



G.acia Plants from Tenerift'e !• 



Page. 



... 12 

 of 1% 



Gleanings 



Insect- Plating Birds in S 

 Vincent. Protectitin 

 Insect Notes: — 



An Outbreak of Field 



Crickets 11 



Clvtii> Devastator. A 

 New Pest of the Flo- 

 rida Orange 11 



Cockroach Control 11 



Entomology in .Jamaica ... 10 



Items of Local Interest ... 7 



Maize. Itoot System of ... 8 



Market Reports l(i 



Notes and Comments ... .S 



Plant Diseases: — 



SummaiT of Notes on 

 Fungi and Plant 

 Diseases in 191K ... 14 

 St. Viuoent Cotton ... ... 9 



West Indian Products ... 15 



Co-operation among Agricultura? Workers. 



iNDER the heading wiiich appears ubove, 

 J/£j there was an article in a recent number of 

 :^ the Journal of Econumic Ev tomol ogy hy 



Mr. .lohn J. Davis, an officer of the United States 



Biireau of Entomology. 



In the first paragraph there appears a quotation 

 from an address by Dr. S. A. Forbes, before the Ento- 

 mological Society of Philadelphia, on the ecological 

 foundation of applied entomology: 'It is when we 

 search for specific reasons for our successes here and 

 our failures there that we are driven to a scrutiny and 



an analysis of controlling conditions of every descrip* 

 tion, and so find ourselves involved in studies so far 

 outside entomolog}, commonly so-called, that we are 

 obliged to apply for assistance to the physiologist, and 

 the chemist, and the physicist, and the meteorologist, 

 and the geographer, and the agriculturist, and the 

 animal husbandman, and the bacteriologist, and the 

 physician, and the sanitarian, or in a word, to the 

 ecologist, who from the nature of his studies, must, if 

 he is thoroughly to cover his field, be something of 

 each and all of these, and still something more" 



The ecologist is a product of recent developments 

 in science, in consequence of the high degree of 

 specialization which has been required of scientific 

 workers. None but the latest editions of dictionaries 

 contain the word ecology, and the functions of the 

 ecologist must be gathered from such statements aa 

 the foregoing. From that we gather that the ecolo- 

 gist has to do with the functions of all the organs of 

 plants studied in relation to all t'ue conditions of 

 environment. 



This definition will stand for the plant ecologist, 

 the economic botanist or agronomist, who in agricul- 

 tural work is likely to be the most prominent of 

 ecological workers. The entomologist may be aa 

 ecologist in that he may be studying insects in relation 

 to their reaction to environment, and the term migh* 

 be applied to dairy men and poultry men if they 

 become sufficiently versed in the reactions of their psu: 

 ticular group of doinest'C annuals Co all the inHuen;?t« 

 of environment. 



