A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. XVIII. No. 458. 



BAKBADOS, NOVEMBER 15, 1919. 



Peicb Id. 



CONTENTS 



I 



Pagb 



Agriculture in Barbados 3-57 

 Accident to a Dog with a 



Fruit Case 363 



Banan.i Cider 366 



Cotton Bush, Manurial 



Vahie of 358 



Department News ... 357 



Exhil)ition in Barbados, 



A Forthcoming Local .. 361 

 Farmyard Manure, Making 



without Animals ... 361 

 Fish Supi)lies, West 



Indian 



Gleanings... 

 Grenada, Agricultural 



Inspection in ... 

 Hevea Rubber, New 



Facts concerning 

 Human Mortiilit}' in 



British Guiana 

 Impressions of an Ameri- 

 can Sugar Chemist in 



the West Indies 

 Insect Notes : — 



Control of Ear Ticks .. 



Entomology in Porto 

 Rico 



353 

 304 



367 



358 



36H 



354 

 363 



Pagk. 



Jijipi-.Jappa 359 



Market Reports 308 



Notes and Comments ... 360 

 Porto Rico Agricultural 



College, The ... 365 



Potato, Swaet, Remark- 

 able Yields of, in Mont- 

 .serrat ... ... ... 359 



River Estate, Trinidad... 300 

 St. Croix Experiment 

 Station, Some Achieve- 

 ments of The. 

 St. Lucia, Recent Exports 



from 

 Salt, Tolerance of, by die 



Sugar-can«' ..; 

 Seeds, Electrical Trc. 



ment of 

 Settlers, New, in the 

 West Indies, 0])j).or- 

 tunitiesfor 

 Skunks and Toads 

 Sugar Factories, Fuel 



Oil for ... 

 West Indian„Products 



cat 



365 

 359 



356 

 307 



.■?00 

 361 



350 

 307 



362 



The West Indian Fish Supplies. 



HE value of fish and fish products imported 

 from abroad into Barbadcs alone, is worth 

 annually something like ^5.50,000. This 

 y is a large sum of money for one class of food like fish, 

 3^ and for a single colony. Some of this fish, which is 

 ^ mostly of the cured description, is, it is true, re-exported 

 1 to other isjands, but the fact remains that those who 

 J) wbiiila like to see this imported fish displaced by 

 J locally caught supplies are up against a difficult prob- 

 lem. Men who have interests in the fish trade and 



make a good living by it, are not easily to be ousted. 

 They may be expected to oppose any organized efforts 

 to increase local production beyond a point sufficient 

 to supply the fresh fish trade. Their support can only 

 be gained by incurring their interest from a patriotic 

 and from a commercial standpoint. 



This aspect of the matter, we believe, has been 

 overlooked in most of the weli-intentioned articles that 

 have appeared from time to time in West Indian 

 newspapers. Much has been written of late in 

 Jamaica on the subject of increasing the local supplies 

 of fish, and in Dominica a company has been formed 

 recently for doing it : but it would appear to be a 

 desirable preliminary to secure, in the first instance, the 

 sympathetic co-operation of those who are engaged in 

 the present import trade. 



That this import trade has been allowed to 

 reach its present dimensions is an indication of 

 a great want of energy and enterprise in regard 

 to West Indian fisheries. Here are islands situa- 

 ted in seas xbounding in edible fish and related 

 animals. Yet the people prefer to put large sums of 

 money into the hands of merchants, and send still 

 larger sums abroad, rather than develop their own 

 resources and keep the money circulating in their 

 own country. 



There are two principal matters in regard to 

 fishery developments that require special attention. 

 The first is rapid transit, and the second is the ijuestion 

 of curing. Once these two problems are solved, and 

 those interested in the fish trade are brought to an 

 understanding, there is no reason why the greater 



