A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol, XVIII. No. 439. 



BARBADOS, FEBRUARY 22, 1919. 



Pkice Id. 



Page. Page. 



Agriculture ill Barbados ... 5n , Pliuit Disease.s; — (C'oi' n'l <i.) 

 Agricu'.ture in Nevis, ... 5.5 The Mottling Disease of 

 Bookshelf ... 54 , Sugar-Cane in Porto 



Ca.suaiina Woods in 



Mauritius 51 



Corn, Husk Protection for o9 

 Corn on Col> and Sword 



Beans as a Stock Feed ^5 



Department News 53 



Cleanings ... fiO 



Insect Notes: — 



Suggestions for Mosquito 



Control in a West 



Indian Island (londd.) 58 



Items of Local Interest ... 55 



Ma;/.e Oil, Food Value of 56 



Market Reports (i4 



MoiMordica Cochinchiiien- 



sis 56 



Notes and Comnients ... 60 

 Plant Diseases: — 



Foc^t Root or Mai di 

 Gomma on Limes ... 62 



Rico 



Rothamsted Experimental 

 Station, The ... • 



Roval Society of Arts 

 Medals ... ' 



62 



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Sea Island Cott. >n Market 

 Solanum Macranthuiii .. 

 Stable Manure as a Phos- 

 ph.itic Fertilizer .. ,. 

 Sugar Industry: — 

 Molascuilt andMegass Meal 5:^ 

 .Sugar By-products in 



Hawaii 



1 T'aiinias and Ediloes, 



I 'ause of Acridity in 



Tuiks and Caicos Islands, 



Industries of ... . . 



West Indian Products . 

 W..vk of the Future, The. 



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The Work of the Future. 



EVER was the need for wise planning and 

 '^prudent forethought in respect to the affairs 

 5of tropical colonies so great as it is to-day. 

 With the re-arrangement of large parts of the world's 

 tropical possessions amongst the various nationalities, 

 as the outcome of the policy of reconstruction and 

 re-adjustment after the war, there will be feverish 

 attempts on the commei'cial side to take advantage of 

 the new possibilities thus laid open, and the novelty of 

 activity in new directions will \v\-e its attractive charm. 



This has a bearing on We.st Indian prosperity and 

 its permanence, for these .activities will infallibly induce 



keen competition in connexion with what are regarded 

 as the supporting industries of these colonies. It is 

 necessary now, and not when the pre.ssure of compet- 

 ition is bein? adversely felt, to look most carefully 

 into the situation, and to see what must be the guid- 

 ing policy to safe-guard efficiently the future of these 

 islands. These considerations should underlie all the 

 efforts of executive officers of governments, of legisla- 

 tors,, as well as of those concerned with industries and 

 commerce. Fundamental to all things in these colonies is 

 agriculture, and it is agriculture that is the concern of 

 the competing efforts to which attention is drawn. In 

 the routine of administration concerning all the multi- 

 farious activities of any of these communities, it is nofc 

 always easy to remember that agricultural concerns must 

 always be uppermost. This may be forgotten when 

 dealing in detail concerning such matters as collecting 

 general revenue, the levying of taxation, matters of 

 public health, police and the maintenance of public 

 order, and the hundred an<J one things which go to 

 make up the daily routine of administration. But under- 

 lying all in these colonies is agriculture, and unless the 

 bearing of each and all of these several matter's on the 

 ultimate agricultural welfare of the communitv is 

 recognized, troubles and difficulties are^ bound to ensuet 



Such consideration^; lead one to the reflection that 

 the several industrits upon whish the welfare of these 

 islands rests will be the subject of much thought' and 

 energy in the direction of progress on the part of 

 those who desire to develop the new areas brouijhfe 

 into the arena of tropical agricultur.il production bv 

 the changes indu ced by the war. Keen competition will 

 result. Those depe n>leat on the prosperity of these 



