A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. XVII. No. 426. 



BAKBADOS. AUGUST 24. 1918. 



Pkice Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Paqe. 



Page;. 



Agriciillure at Oxford ... 205 



Agriculture in Barbados... 202 



Auifiican Bureau of Stand- 

 ards and Sugar 204 



British Guiana, Native 

 Oil Palms of 



(.'astor Oil Plant, Cultiv i- 



tiiMi of, and Preparation 



of Oil 



Cotton from Africa 



Dye-Woods, West Indian 



Egg Plant, The 



FoodSujjply, New Sources 

 of 



Forestry in Cyprus... 



Gleanings 



Hog Cholera, .Sources and 

 Channels of Infection ... 



Insect Notes: — 



Cotton Stainer Control 

 in St. Vincent 26() 



)f Local Inter- 



263 



260 

 204 

 2G4 

 207 



20,5 

 26.5 

 20K 



271 



Item 



est 262 



Market Reports 272 



Notes and Comments ... 204 



Plant Diseases: — 

 Resistance and Suscepti- 

 bility 27t' 



Porto Rico Agricultural 



Experiment Station ... 20!> 

 Porto Rico College of 

 Agriculture and Mediaii- 



ical Arts 261 



Power Alcohol 25!» 



Sea, Harvests of The ... 257 



Sugar and Its Value as a. 

 Food , 25!> 



Sugar Industry, Brazi- 

 lian 250 



Tauuirind. Wild, A Pest or 

 a Benefit? 27<i 



The Harvests of the Sea. 



^UBLIO attention ni these West Indian 

 islands has been continually directed during 

 the war to the question of increasing the 

 amount of food to be obtained from the land, and u\ 

 most cases with notably good results. It might be a> 

 W'-il if some efforts were made towards greater employ- 

 ment of the harve.sts of the sea. 



With the exception of British Guiana and British 

 Honduras, these western tropical colonies of the Empire 



are all islands surrounded by seas teeming with fish 

 and other marine creatures, the majority of which 

 might be utilized as sources of palatable and whole- 

 some food. Nowhere, however, in these colonies have 

 there been any other than slight attempts made 

 towards the encouragement and development of 

 fisheries. While so much attention is being directed 

 towards the improvement of the harvest of the land, 

 it might be worth while considering the great poten- 

 tialities in increasing the food supply existing in the 

 seas surrounding the West Indie.s. 



An e.xceedingly interesting paper on the Marine 

 Resources of the British West Indies was read by 

 I>r. Duerden, Curator of the Museum of the Institute of 

 Jamaica, at the third West Indian Agricultural Confer- 

 ence, held in Barbados in 1901. He pointed out that 

 everywhere attention is being directed to the utiliza- 

 tion and development of the resources of the sea. 

 Government departments are charged with the econo- 

 mical investigation, and the artificial cultivation of 

 many species of fish, lobsters, and oysters, and in most 

 countries of any importance these are attended to with 

 the same amount of scientific care as is bestowed upon 

 the crops of the land. Pisciculture has become a recog- 

 nized industry and science as much as agriculture. 



As is stated above, however, the fishing industry 

 in West Indian waters is only carried out by private 

 and limited concerns. The methods of capture employed 

 are usually primiti\e in character, and rarely is 

 advantage taken of modern improvements in 

 fishing implements. The quality of much of th« 



