

A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEV/ 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



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Vol. XVIII. No. 437. 



BARBADOS, JANUARY 25, 1919. 



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Agiicultuie and the Future 



Agriculture in Bai'bados... 



Antigua and St. Kitts Cot- 

 ton 



Bacon and Hams, Home 

 Curing of 



Cotton: — 

 Maintenance of (Quality 

 of Egyptian Cotton ... 

 Sea Lsland Cotton Market 



Cotton Seed Products, 

 Comparative Toxicity of 



Cowpea, Notes on Inheri- 

 tance in 



Department News 



Gleanings 



Grain Sorghums, The ••. 



Insect Notes: — 



Entomology in .Jamaica... 

 Tick Destruction 



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28 

 29 



2(; 

 27 



Isle of Pines. Develop- 



i meut of ■.;. ... 29 



Items of Local Interest ... 22 



Market Reports S2 



Notes and Comments ... 24 



Plant Diseases: — 



Plant Diseases in Jamaica 3(1 



Potash Salts in T.S. 



America 25 



Poultry in the Philippines 23 



Sugar-Cane, Coefficient uf 

 Maturity of 25 



Sugar Factory, Profit - 

 Sharing in a West In- 

 dian 19 



Weed Seeds, Buried 24 



Zebra and Its Hybrids as 

 Domestic Animals... : 25 



Agriculture and the Future. 



)0\VADAYS the most prominent subject 

 in the public mind, as e\idenceil in periodic 



) literature, is that of the reconstruction of 

 life and industry after the war. The war has so upset 

 the conditions of these that the affairs of the world 

 have to be put into order again. 



The Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts, 

 Mr. Alan A. Campbell Swinton, F.R.S., delivered a 

 most comprehensive and stimulating address at" the 

 meeting of the Society on November 20, IfllS, His 

 subject was Science and the Future, and it was dealt 



with from the standpoint of the wonderful progress 

 that has been made in the past, with an outlook 

 towards the still more wonderful things which may be 

 accomplished in the future. 



One is" apt in thinking of the inheritance received 

 by the present from the past, to regard the material 

 things as of most importance. Hence the wanton des- 

 truction of the production of centuries of human 

 labour, and the devastation of cultivated lands, which 

 have been perpetrated by the Huus continually during 

 the progress of the war, have raised the greatest possible 

 indignation in the minds of the civilized world. On 

 the other hand, it must be remembered that the great- 

 est heritage of the present is not material construc- 

 tion, but the products of the mind, and the accumula- 

 tion of priceless scientific knowledge. It is not too 

 much to siy, as Mr. Swinton put it, that 'all our indus- 

 tries, all our arts, and all our sciences have their root 

 in the distant past. Some knowledge of importance 

 may have been, in the crash of empires and the great 

 social convulsions that have taken place, lost or forgot- 

 ten, but comparatively not much: while owing to the 

 invention of printing, and the conseijuent easy multi- 

 plication of records, this is never likely to happen 

 again, at any rate on any considerable scale.' 



The reconstruction therefore of the material pro- 

 ducts of civilization is in fact of far less importance 

 than the knowledge of how to construct them. Here 

 comes in the value of the continuity of investigation 

 and research, and of the records brought down from the 



