A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



LiBRAR 



NEW YOi 



BOTAMC 



QARDEf 



Vol. VII. No. 155 



BAEBADOS, APEIL -t, 1908. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Agiicultiiial Banks in 

 British Colonies... 



AntigiM Central Sugar 

 Factory 



Avocado, Propagation 

 by Budding 



Bananas in Crista Rico 

 British (iuiana, and West 

 Indian Agricultural 

 Conference 



Canada's Wheat-prod ucin 



Capacity 



Castilloa Rubber 

 Colombia, Agricultura 



Products of 



Colombia, Rublier in 

 Colonial Fruit and Vege- 

 table Shows 



Cotton Notes : — 

 Barbados, Cotton 



Exports from ... 

 Montserrat, Cotton 



Industry in 

 Sea Island Cotton 



Market 



Virgin Islands, Cotton 



Industry in 

 West Indian Col Ion 

 Department News ... 

 Departmental Reports :- 

 Bermuda : Board of 



Agriculture, 190()-7 

 Montserrat : Botanic 

 Station, IJtOO-T ... 

 Dominica Ai,'ricultural 

 School.^ 



School Gardens. 



N dealing ^vith the subject of Agvictiltiiral 

 Education at the recent ( 'onference, special 

 attention was drawn U> the progress made 

 L. in establishing School Gardens in conne.xion with 



elementary schools in the West Indies and British- 

 Guiana. It was mentioned that at Jamaica, fair pro- 

 gress was being made in this direction. In 1000, only 

 si.x schools received special grants amounting to £32^ 

 In IflQIi, the number ofscJiools had increased to ninety- 

 two, and the special grants to £227. 



At British Guiana, three Government school 

 gardens had been established at Georgetown. In 

 addition, it was reported that the managers and teachers 

 of over fift}' schools had started small gardens in the 

 country districts. These Litter are stated to be earn- 

 ing about SO per cent, of the small grant oftored under 

 the Code Regulations. 



In 'i'rinidad during hxst year, 203 schools were 

 examined in practical agriculture. Steady progress 

 is reported from all parts of the island. The forma- 

 tion of school gardens is stated to be hindered by the 

 want of suitable land, and by other difficulties. Five 

 horticultural school-sbo^vs are annually held in Trinidad 

 and Tobago. 



At Grenada, agricultural education in elementary 

 schools appears to have declined during the last two 

 Years and nothing worth mentioning is being done at 

 present with school gardens. Jlatters are practically at 

 a standstill also in the elementary schools at St. Vincent. 

 Moderate progress is reported from St. Lucia. 



At Barbados, forty-one boys' schools and three 

 girls' schools presented children at the annual examina- 

 tions in object-lessons. About one-third of these had 

 school gardens or showed plants under cultivation in- 

 pots or boxes. It is stated that the school gardens are 

 decidedly better managed than before and the number 

 has increased to twenty-one. The school exhibits at 

 the Peasant Exhibitions reached a highei standard. 



