A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



NEW Y( 

 BOTANl 



oarde 



Vol. VU. No. 174. 



BARBADOS, DECEMBEB 26, 190.- 



Price Id, 



CONTENTS. 



Bdrbadcs, .-Vgricult iu:il 



Show :it 4U!I 



Oacao at St. Kitt's-Nevi.s... 4(19 

 Caosvo Exports fiMin Triiii- 



dail 4(Hi 



Citrus Fruits, Soils for ... 404 

 Cott'uc ill Porto Ricn ... 4(lo 



Cotton Notes :— 

 Cotton Grcjwing at 



St. Vincent 400 



•Sua Island Cotton. 



Ini])(irtaucL' nf 



StixMigth in 40ti 



We.st Indian Cntton ... 4IM; 

 Cyprus, .\gricultural 



B.uik ill 407 



Dop.'irtnR'ntal Reports : — 

 Mj'.lay States : Director 



of Agriculture, l',)07... 41.'-! 

 St. Kitt's-Nevis: Botanic 



Station, etc., l'.)07-S... 41:^ 

 Dry Farming in the 



United States 414 



Experiment Stations and 



imjmivemeut of ■/ 



Tropical Agriculture 4tll-i 

 Fiji Lslands, Agriculture 



in 407 



French Col, mial School ... 402 

 Fruit (irowers. Hints to... 404 



(Jleaniiigs 41"J 



(Jold Cii.ist, Fibres frmu 



the 405 



Injurious In.sects, 



Destruction of 40!) 



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Insect Notes : — 

 Fruit Flies ... 

 Legumini lus Plant 



Imjirnvers 



Manures, Artificial, in 



It.dy 



Market ileports 



Molasses, l<'eeding 



Experiments with... 

 Morris, Sir D.uiiel, 



K.C.M.G 



Notes and Coiuments ... 

 Oranges, Decay of While 



in Transit 



Prize-holdings Coiupeti- 



tifJiis at Grenada ... 

 Pro.ltahle ar.d Unprotit- 



ahle Cultivations ... 

 Records. The Value of ... 

 Rubber Kxhibits from 



Domiuic.-i 



Rubber, Forsteronia, 



from Jamaica 



Rubber Pl.-mts, New, for 



the West Indies ... 

 Scale Inserts, Destruction 



of at St. Lucia 

 School Gardening, Educa- 

 tional Value of 

 Science Teaching .at 

 Harrison College, 



Barbados 



Soy Beau, The 



Students' Corner 



West .\fvican Rams and 

 Their Progeny 



xi;v.. 



410 



407 



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40."> 

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404 



411 



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 414 



4011 



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41! 

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Science Teaching!: at Thirrison 

 Co!leo-e, Barljado.s. 



T is gradually becoming rocognizei] lliat 

 success in any branch of industry depends 

 on the amount of scientific method whicli 

 is brought to bear upon it. In no branch of industry 

 is this more evident than in that of Agriculture. The 



planter wlio does not know the chemical composition 

 of his soil and crops and the cheniical changes taking 

 place in them, the rensons why drainage and tillage 

 iinpiove the land, the life-histories of the insect and 

 fungoid pests which attack them, and many other 

 matters, is behind the times and must sooner or later 

 give way to the scientifically trained man. 



The value of a scientific training lies not only in 

 the knowledge which it imparts, but above all in the 

 habit of niiiid which it encourages. It makes the 

 student (jb.servant, teaiches him accuracy, trains him to 

 tiiink logically and clearly, and makes him self-reliant 



In no p.art nf the West Indies is the value of 

 a scieiitilir training as a preliminary to the profession 

 nf Aoiieuliure becoining better recognized than at Bar- 

 liados. Additional accommodation and apparatus for 

 the teaching nf Botany and Physics have recently been 

 provided at Il.inison College, and the local (iovern- 

 nient has recently placed on the permanent educational 

 st.atf of the colon V the Lecturer in Natural and Agri- 

 cultural Sciences, whose services were formerly provided 

 \>y the Impel i.nl Department of Agriculture. 



In cniiscipience of this additional accommodation it 

 has been possible to enlarge considerably the scope of 

 the science teaching in the four lower forms at the 

 College. Prior to 1!)07 the teaching in these lower 

 forms was coiulucted entirely bv means of chemistry 

 lectures illustrated by experiments. Now the in.struc- 

 tion is conveyed largely through the medium of 

 jiractical work, ;ind, in adilition to chemistry, mensura- 

 tion and elementary physics are also taught. 



The special Agricultural Science course is open to 

 boys whose education has reached the standard of the 



