A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



ToL. XVIIL No. 443. 



BARBADOS. APRIL 19, 1919. 



Prior Id. 



Paob 



Paob. 



Agricultui-e in Barbados 127 



Alcohol, Colonially Pro- 

 duced, British Surtax 

 on 120 



Alcohol in Cuba, Produc- 

 tion of 117 



Ammonium Nitrate as 



a Fertilizer 121 



B.ick to the Land and 



Countryside 121 



Book Shelf 119 



Cassava Experiments in 



Trinidad 126 



Cotton: — 



Sea Island Cotton 



Market 118 



Cotton Ordinance in 

 Turks and Caicos 

 Islands 121 



Gleanings 124 



In.sect Notes :^ 



Cacao Thrips in Grena- 

 da 



Poisoning of the Boll 

 Weevil 



Itenw of Local Intere.^t ... 12< i 



Lime Cultivation in 

 Dominic i 



Market Reports ... . 



Mycology, A Broader ., 



Notes and Comments... 



Plant Legislation in St. 

 Lucia, Recent 



Sea Island Cotton, Im- 

 provement in the 

 Yield of 125 



Sucrose Content of 

 Canes Crushed 116 



Sugar-cane Cultivation in 

 Louisiana, Notes on... 115 



'West Indian Bulletin', 

 Vol. XVII, No. ■^ ... 120 



West Indian Products .. 123 



122 



122 



118 

 128 

 113 

 120 



121 



A Broader Mycology. 



,HE Kew Bulletin, No. 10, 1918, records with 

 J regret the death of Mr. C. O. Farquharson, 

 l,M\cologist, Southern Nigeria, who was among 

 the passengers lost at sea through collision on the home- 

 ward bound steamer, Burutu, ou October 3, 1918. 



The Bulletin records Mr. Farquharson 's keen 

 enthusiasm in his work, thi- sound judgment with 

 which he confronted its problems, and the excellence 

 of the results he had already achieved in the study of 

 West African agriculture. 



A letter sent to the Assistant Director of Kew 

 by Mr. Farquharson through the mail following the 

 veasel on which Mr. Farquharson .sailed is pub- 



lished in the Bulletin referred to above. The letter 

 contains so many ideas pertinent to the trend 

 of thought now engaging the attention of seisin - 

 tific workers who are dealing with the problems of 

 tropical agriculture — ideas having regard to the nature 

 of the work, the methods by which he thought to solve 

 the many difficult problems encountered, and the^kind 

 of education that his e.Kperience had led him tojbeiieve 

 best for workers in this field — that it is of general 

 interest, and worthy of consideration with regard to 

 tropical plant pathology generally. 



After expressing his regret at not having written 

 more frequently on mycological matters, Mr. Farquhar- 

 son gives as a reason t.hat except for rare and brief inter- 

 vals, he had not really been Mycologist during his whole 

 tour of twenty-three months. His real work had been 

 as Curator in charge of the field labour at Ibadan and 

 Agege. This is a typical instance of the various 

 duties which may devolve on any one of the scientific 

 workers attached to the staff of an undermanned 

 department in tropical countries. 



Much of Mr. Farquharson s letter is quoted 

 ipsissima verba below. If space would allow, it would 

 be most interesting to give the whole of it. He sa^: — 



'Under the inspiration of my former colleague, 

 Dr. Lamborn, and encouraged by Professor Poulton, 

 I have done little bits of entomology in my leisure, and 

 perhaps know as much about the ways of getting at insect 

 life-histories, and noting their relations to their environ- 

 ment, as any other mycologist in the field, and may be a 

 little more. With some knowledge of handling labour, 

 gained in twenty odd months gang driving of some uw* 

 hundred men, mv educatiou, I think I can cousider 



