A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



GARDEN. 



Vol. VIL No. lo?. 



BARBADOS, 



'l':i!in"Al!Y 22, 1908. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Pagi:. 



AsJiiniltiinil I1:uiks J'.t 



Ai^iicultuial Exiicrinierts 1 



ill Antigua : Vi.sit uf j 



Planters ... .' iS ] 



Cacao Drier, a Jvew 57 



Cacao Industry of Wj.st 



Indies 53 



Canadian Reciprocily 



Conference ... (i'2 



Cocoa-niils in Federate'' 



U:\hiy States .52 



Cotfee ill Hawaii ... 02 



Coii'ee in Porto Rico 59 



Corn Selection liy A'^ii- 



cultnral Fa|iils .. ... 57 

 Cotton Notes :— ■ i 



Barbados Co-cpei'a' ive j 



Cotton P'actoiy 55: 



Carriacon, Cotton 



Growing in . ... 54 



St, Croix, i'ottoa I egisla- 



tion in 54 



St. A'incenI, Cott' n 



(iinniii!:; in 54 I 



Sea Island C(.tti>ii Crop... 55 j 

 Sea Island C..tl:)n 



INlaiket 54' 



West Indian CotI jii ... 54 I 



Deiiartiueiit News 58 i 



Dciininioa AgriciiKui il and ■ 



Connnercial Sot'ety ... 63 

 Ecuador, Cacai_ Plod act ion 



in 50 j 



Gleanincrs (iO ! 



Pac 



Iininigratinn into Ciilia ... 

 .Jiiiiiaica, Fruit Industry of 



l.ciiioii Ciiriiii4 



Market Reports 



IMilkmg Cow, Choice of ... 



INIillions ill .\ntigua 



IMontserrat l'reservin;4 



Industry 



Northern Ni'.ieria, Agri- 

 culture in 



Notes and Coininents 

 OiirBookShelf : - 

 Carolina Hicc- Cook Bonk 

 Insects Injurious to 



Vegetaljles 



Poultry Notes : - 



Small Eggs 



Talile Chickens, Breeding 



and Feeding of ... 

 Rubber Cultivation in 



IMindano 



Rublier in l>utcli fluiana 

 St. Vincent, Suggested ( >il 



Factory for 



Science N(ptes : - 



Vegetable Ivory 



Sugar Industry: — 

 Central Sugar Mills in 



(Queensland 



Sweet Potatos, Fungus 



K. 

 5!t 

 52 

 57 

 04 

 (il 



(V.; 



Di 



se.'isos oi 



56, 



■f 



Tobacco Industry 



.lamaica 



West Indi.in Products 



5(i 



M 



5! I 



01 



01 



01 

 50 



57 



58 



51 



5'.t 



55 

 03 



Aivii^'ultural Banks. 



iS!{^ HE .|iitstion of the establishment of Agri- 



cnhir';:l Banks in these colonies is one 



wiiith has often been disiuissed in various 



localities, moi'c jvuticularly in .Taniaic-a. Information 



"^in regard to tlteso iisefiil institutions has frequently 



'been giver in the pe>iodieals of the Tinperial Dejjart- 



^lent of Aqricultu.'c, and the suhjoct lias received 



attention at !:iore tiian one Agricultural Conference. 



A particularly vahiable contribution dealing with 

 this question was the paper read before tlie West 

 Indian Agricultural Conference held at Trinidad in 

 190.5, by the Hon. Wm. Fawcett, Director of Public 

 Cardens in Jamaica, which gave a clear review of the 

 principal provisions of the ' Raiffeisen ' system of 

 co-operative loan banks, that have given such satisfac- 

 tory icsiilts within recent years in Germany and 

 Central Europe. Mr. Fawcetts paper, together with 

 othei's dealing with the same subject, was reprinted 

 under the title ' Information in Regard to Agricultural 

 Banks,' as No. 3.5 of the Pamphlet series of the Imper- 

 ial Department of Agriculture. 



There is no need to dwell at length ujKm the 

 advantage of a society or institution by means of which 

 a thrifty peasant proprietor or holder is enabled to 

 obtain, at moderate interest, a small amount of capital 

 for the development of his land, on the security of the 

 crops thereon, 'i'he value of these institutions is 

 at once apparent. In every part of the West Indies 

 there are small holders, willing to provide the 

 necessary labour to work their land, but who occasion- 

 ally, for various reasons, require the temporary need of 

 a little extra capital. The ordinary banks do not lay 

 themselves out to do business of this kind, and if the 

 would-be borrower has recourse to a money lender, he 

 is frequently charged an e.\eessively high rate of 

 interest, and the negotiation, instead of proving 

 a means of assistance, often lands him in o-rcater 

 difficulties than before. 



It is just such men as these that agricultural loan 

 banks are designed to aid, and the value of such institu- 

 tions has been so fully recognized in European countries 

 that nearly 30,000 banks have been formed in different 



