A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 





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Vol XVII. No, 427. 



BARBADOS. SEPTEMBER 7. 1918. 



Pricx Id. 



CONTENTS 



Bouk Shelf 



British Cotton Growing 



A.ssociation , 



Department News 



Departmental Repor'^s ... 



Factories, West Indian 



Sugar, Review of Work 



of two 



Farming in South Africa 



Forests in Modern War- 

 fare, Value of 



Fruit^> and Vegetables, 

 Home Drying of 



Geoaraphv in Education 

 Place o"f 



Gleinings 



Insect Notes; — 

 Insect Pest« in St. [,ucia. 

 1917-18 



Paof 



28a I 



277 

 275 

 285 



Paob, 



27«) 

 281 



281 



278 



275 



284 



282 



Iteni.> rif Local Inter- 

 est 277 



Jack Spaniard.s ... 27'* 



Lead f c )r Stniiulating 

 (rrowtli in Plants, Vf>e 



of 27y 



Market Reports 288 



Museum, Oommercial at 



Ottaw: 27:: 



Note.-^ and Comments ... 28ti 

 Plant Diseases: — 



Diseases of Coco-nuts in 



.(aiuaica 28t> 



Thick lersus T'hin Canes 



for Planting 280 



Tomaio Seeds and Skins, 



Utilization of W.i.ste ... 280 

 West Indian Products ... 287 

 Wheat <T rowing, Researdi 



in 281 



Commercial Museum at Ottawa, 



()\\'A1!1>S thu close oi 191.7 information was 

 jieceived from Mr. Watson Griffin. Superin- 

 ,tendent of the Cotaniercial Intelligence 

 Branch of the C'anadian Department of Trade and 

 Commerce, of the intention of the Department to open 

 a Commercial Museum in Ottawa at an early date, and 

 that it was deemed desirable to institute a West Indian 

 Section, more particularly devoted to West Indian raw 

 materials that might be used in Canadian manufac- 

 tures The idea seemed .admirable, and steps; were 

 taken to foster it and to encourage ihe cooperation of 



the several West Indian colonies. Some progress has 

 already been made, .and certain colonies have send 

 forward instalments of interesting and useful exhibits 



In the past there were recurrent efforts to .send 

 e.xhibits from practically all the West Indian colonie-s 

 to the Canadian National Exhibition held annually a* 

 Toronto. While, doubtless, these efiforts were useful and , 

 served to draw considerable attention on the part of 

 Canadian and American visitors to the West Indies, 

 their products, and their potentialities, still these 

 Exhibitions were fleeting in character, and the exhibits 

 had to be renewed annually, at considerable expendi- 

 ture of energy and trouble. 



There will be particular advantage in having 

 a permanent Exhibition, for this will be available for 

 steady and constant reference on the part of business 

 men who desire to obtain information concerning the 

 products of the West Indies. The knowledge which will 

 be chu.s available will be supplemented by abundant 

 references to the business aspects of the case and 

 to the literature of the matters under consideration, 

 and this in a degree and to an extent that was imposs- 

 ible in the case of a temporary Exhibition, however 

 interesting. Once established and possessing adequate 

 exhibits and concomitant information of a commer- 

 cial, agricultural, and scientific character, this Museum 

 will be consulted In- those interested in the vanous 

 products; and doul)tle.ss information will be sought, not 

 only by dwellers in Canada, but also by those in tihe . 

 West Indies or other countries capable of producing 

 raw material of interest, and so the Museum, with its 

 catalogues, libraries and general forms of information 

 will be employed boili by the users .ind the prtxluceia 



