A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES, 



libra: 



NEW YO 



BOIV.MC 



Qakul 



Vol. VIT. No. 151. 



BAEBADOS, FEBEUAKY 8, 1908. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



Agricultural Education in 



the West Indies ;5.'! j 



Barbados, Geology and [ 



Mineral Re.sources of... 45 

 Barbados, Peasants' Agri- 



cultui'al fShow at 4.3 



Can.ada, West Indian 



Students in 40 



< 'ane Fanning in Xaparinia 41 

 Cenrral .Afiic.i, Tobacco 



Growing in 45 



Cotton Factories, Matches in 40 

 Cotton Notes : — 



Central Africa, Cottnn in 3S 

 Cotton-Seed Factory, and 



Cotton-Seed Products 3)i 

 Cotton Stallis, Taper 



Manufacture from ... y8 

 Col tun Worm in Olden 



Days -.','.) 



Sea Island Cotton 



Market 38 



West Indian Cottnu ... 3S 

 Cuba, Agricultural Indus- 

 tries of 43 



Dominica Planters' Associa- 

 tion 37 



Fiji, Agricultural Prospects 



in 41 



Formaldeli3'de. and its 



Influence on Funtumia 

 Rubber 47 



PAIiE. 



... 41 



Gleaning.s , 



Insect Notes : — 

 Cattle and Fowl Ticks ... 4l' 



l^inie Juice, Concentrated. 



and Citrate of Lime... 4I> 

 Limes, Best Method ..f 



Packing 40 



Market Reports 4S 



Milking Cattle, Water anil 



Shade for 4l' 



Xi.iies and Counnents ... 40 



Onion Cnip in Antigua, 



l!IU7-8 " 37 



Plant Diseases, Prevention 

 nf 41 



I'crtip Fiicn, Citrus P'ruits 



and Pine-apples in ... '.'>'■> 



Bice Crop of British 



Guiana 30 



Rubber Cultivation 47 



Rul)ber Late.x, Function I 'f 47 

 Sugar Indu.stry : — 

 Sugar-cane E.xperinients 



at Ba.rbados 35 



Su|ierphosphate .3" 



Sueet l^>tato Crop 41 



Tobacco Pmduetion in 



Trinidad 37 



Trinidad. Crown Lands in 3 I 



.Agricultural Education in the 



West Indies. 



HE report presented by the special com- 

 mittee appointed to deal with this question 

 at the recent Agricidtural Conference 

 ■^indicated that considerable advance has been made in 

 ^^agricultural education in the We.st Indies and British 

 ^'Guiana during the past nine years. 



As regards elementary schools, in practical!}' every 

 colony steps have been taken to provide a course of 

 training fur teachers, in the principles underlying 

 agricidtural practice in order to fit them to give. 

 suitable instruction to their pupils. In this connexion, 

 too, the provision and use of school gardens have been 

 general, and on the whole, the progress made has been 

 fairl_y satisfactory. 



In many of the secondary schools of the West 

 Indies, systematic efforts are being made to bring 

 scientific agricultural instruction within the reach 

 of boys who hope to become planters, or mana- 

 gers of ))lantations. This is especially the case 

 at Harrison College, Bai'bados. Other centres of 

 instruction in the sciences allied to, and bearing upon 

 agriculture, are the Jamaica College, the Government 

 Laboratory, Trinidtid, the <^)^leen's College, British 

 (iiiiana, and the ( Jraiuinar Schools at Antigua and 

 St. Kiut's. 



At the agricultural schools established by the 

 Imperial Department of Agriculture at Dominica, 

 St. Lucia, and St. Vincent, a course of instruction 

 extending over three years, together with free board 

 and lodging, is given to selected boys, with the object of 

 preparing them for a life of responsible agricultural 

 work. 



These facts were laid before the Conference in 

 Keports from the Education Section presented at the 

 recent Agricultural Conference by his Lordship the 

 Bishop and the R(,'vd. Dr. Dalton (Kead-master of 

 Htirrison College, Barbados). The latter followed up 

 the presentation of his report b}' an address, in which 

 ho drew attention to the great importance of further 

 effort being made to extend agricultural teaching in 



