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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS 



Septembek 7, 1918. 



•f materials as a means ot aciiuiring and exchanging 

 knowledge in a manner which cannot i'ail to be of 

 service to established industries, but will also be inval- 

 uable in building up new ones. Such a Jfuseum with 

 its concomitant means of affording and obtaining infor- 

 mation appears to be essential to the further develop- 

 ment of commercial relations between the West Indies 

 and Canada. 



A feature arising out of its permanence which will 

 appeal to all those who have taken part in preparing 

 exhibits for the Canadian National Exhibitions already 

 referred to, is that exhibits fur the Museum can be 

 collected at leisure; there is no time limit, such as often 

 worried intending exhibitors in other cases, where 

 exhibits must be sent by a particular steamer and ran 

 the risk oT being useless if they failed to arrive in time. 

 Furthermore, it is unnecessary to send the exhibits 

 prepared in a form for iunnediate display, the Museum 

 authorities will prepare them in the most appropriate 

 manner. All that the senders are concerned with is 

 that the specimens sent shall be typical of the product 

 in question, and that the quantity shall be such as will 

 enable proper display to be made. 



Keference to the literature of the several West 

 Indian colonies, and particularly to the handbooks 

 ■which were annually produced by the Imperial Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture to accompany the exhibits sent 

 to the Toronto Kxhibition, goes to show that there are 

 abundant materials to be sent from each colony to 

 form instructive exhibits, which could serve, not 

 merely for amusement or transient instruction, but for 

 aiding in the building up of a sound body of commer- 

 cial and agricultural knowledge, which will reflect 

 itself in further development of existing industries, 

 the creation of new ones, and a marked expansion of 

 the trade between Canada and these islands. 



Not only those who in the course of their connex- 

 ion with Exhibition Committees, Agricultural Depart- 

 ments, and other administrative bodies who have to do 

 with exhibition matters, but also planters and mer- 

 chants interested in the development of the trade and 

 resources of their respective colonies will be well advised 

 to inform themselves concerning this Museum, and the 

 part that is being taken locally to ensure the adei)uate 

 representation of the colony in which each is inter- 

 ested. The matter is one of real importance, and 

 one in which individual interest will go far to secure 

 success. 



The following outline in tabular form of the 

 exports from the West Indies and British (!uiana will 



afford some idea of the materials existing in each 

 colony to form the basis ot a permanent exhibit in the 

 Museum, and the hope may be expressed that at no 

 distant date the Museum will be adequately furnished 

 with exhibits doing justice to each colony. 



Colony. 

 British Guiana 



Trinidad and Tobago, 



(■irenada 



8t. Lucia ... 



St. Vincent... 



Barbados ... 



Antigua 



St. Kitts-Nevis 



Dominica ... 



Montserrat ... 



■Jamaica 



Bahamas 



British Honduras 



Principal Articles of Export. 



Sugar, gold, diamonds, balata, 

 rice, timber, charcoal, lum- 

 ber, coco-nuts, coffee. 

 ..Sugar, molasses, cacao, asphalt, 

 coco-nuts, copra, hides. 

 Cacao (raw), coco-nuts, spices 

 (nutmegs, mace). 



Cacao, coco-nuts, limes and lime 

 juice, hides, sugar (muscovado, 

 vacuum pan), mace, nutmegs, 

 honey, bay leaves, bay oil. 

 Cotton, arrowroot, cacao, molas- 

 ses, sugar (crystallized, mus- 

 covado), syrup, ground nuts, 

 cassava starch. 



-Molasses, f'Vrup, sugar, cotton, 

 hides and skins, rum, vegeta- 

 bles (fresh). 



Sugar (crystals, muscovado), 

 syrup, molasses, cotton, tamar- 

 inds in syrup, onions, limes and 

 lime juice, hides and skins. 

 Sugar (muscovado, vacuum 

 pan), molasses, cotton, lime 

 juice, vegetables, coco-nuts. 

 Limes (fresh and pickled), 

 oranges, other fruit and vegeta- 

 bles, raw and concentrateil 

 lime juice, lime juice cordial, 

 citrate of lime, cacao, coco-nuts, 

 bay leaves, bay oil, orange oil, 

 jams and jellies, hides, honey. 

 Cotton, sugar (muscovado), 

 papain, fresh fruit, bay oil and 

 bay leaves. 



Sugar, rum, tobacco (includ- 

 ing cigars), bananas, oranges, 

 orange oil. coffee, ginger, 

 pimento, dyewoods, cacao, hides 

 and skins. 



Sponges, sisal canned pine- 

 apples, turtle shell, beche-de- 

 mer. 



Mahogany and other wood, 

 dye-woods, cohune nuts. 



