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THE AGKlCULTUiiAl. NEWS. 



Ai'iui, 19. 191'j. 



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Vol. XVIII. BATURDAY, APl'.lL 11), 191'J. No 413. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Contents of Present Issue. 



'J'hc eilitorial deaLs with thu advisability ot a 

 wide iMitlook in m.-itter.s relating to plant jwthology. 



The 'West Indian Bnlletin'. Vol. XVII, No. 3. 



This number oi' the West Indian ./iuUctin, which 

 has jnst been issued, contains several articles of 

 considerable interest. The first, reproduced from the 

 Journal of Indufitrial and Etifflnwring Ghflnn,<>in/, 

 IS an acoouni by Dr. Chark* E. O'o.Jtes of the ^\"orking 

 iind aims of the famous Aububon .Sugar Sc4iool in 

 Louisiana. It is well worth careful considoration, 

 sh<.nving .is it does that the provision for high class 

 pcieu title training in any direction re>juires most Ciireful 

 plvnning heforeh.and, if satisfactory resulb.s ar^' to be 

 aitaineil. 



.Swmc fever has atti'acted considerable attention 

 recently in the West Indies. Owing to the liict 

 thjit there is some confusion between several forms 

 of swine diseases, and some differences ofopinion as to 

 mothods of irealmont, information ol the most reliable 

 ch.'iracter on the the.^e points will be found in the 

 second article of the Bulletin by I'roft-.ssor Sir .lohn 

 McFadyeaD, Principal of the Royal Veterinary College 

 in London, This article is reprinted from the Jnnrmd 

 oftJi/'. Royal Ai^rumWaral Society of England. 



The third and fourth papers rulaliO to certain 

 conclusions fi'om souu; recent researches by Mr. S. C. Har» 

 land, B.Sc. Assistant for cotton research on the staff' 

 of the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the 

 West Indies. Fuither reference to one of these papers 

 will be found on another page of this Journal. 



An address delivered to the St. Vincent Agricultural 

 and (.'oinraereial Society, (Jctober LiLS, by Sir Francis 

 Watts, ]\.C.M.< !., Imperial C/Ommissioner oi' Agricul- 

 tiu'e ffir the West Indies, concerning cotton in St. 

 Vincent, and the steps which uuist be tiiken to safe- 

 guard the industry, is reproduced as the next article. 



Two short but important papers follow on a new 

 nematode, causing a disease of ban.anas and its iden- 

 tification. The tirst by Mr. W. Nowell, D.I.C, Mycolo- 

 gist on the stafl of the Imperial Department of 

 Agriculture, describes the appearance and effects <jf 

 this disease. Most of this has already appeared in the 

 AgricidiuTal Ne.wti, Vol. XVII, No. 422. The second 

 paper referred to is an identification of the nematode 

 by Dr. N. A. (,'obb. Agricultural Technologist, ])opart- 

 ment of Agriculture, United States of America. 



The final paper of the number, suggesting the 

 causes of the decreased sucrose content of canes 

 crushed at the central factories in Antigiui and St. 

 Kitts, by the Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture, 

 will be found reproduced on another page of this issue. 



Tlio lirst article under Insect Xotes, ou )jage 122, 

 is the jibatract of a leport by the Entomologist on the 

 staff of this Department on cficao thrips in Grenada. 

 The work done with respoct to poisoning of the boll 

 weevil in the United States is discuasec) in a seconfl 

 article. 



C>n page 1 IS will he found a continuat)on of the 



iirticio on lime eiiltivatjon in Dominica, the first part 



■ f which appeared in the previous issue of this .lournal. 



The British Surtax on Colonially Produced 

 Alcohol. 



In the previous issue of this Journal, the certainty 

 of the largely increa.sed demand for industrial alcohol 

 for motor purposes in the United Kingdom was 

 pointed out. 



In the We.Nl, India CommiUee CVrruter, March 20, 

 liUil, there is an article which draws attention to the 

 handicap placed on colonially produceil alcohol by the 

 surtax impo.sed on it in the I'nited Kingdom. 

 Spirits manufactured in the United Kingdom, for 



