A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 





Vol. IVII. No. 429. 



BARBADOS. OCTOBER 5. 1918. 



Pbice Id. 



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CONTENTS. 



Page 



Agriculture as a Business 



Proposition 313 



Agriculture in Barbados... 311 

 Alcohol Production from 



Wood Waste 313 



Book Shelf 315 



British Cotton Growing 



Association 310 



Buchu Cultivation in South 



Africa 312 



Copra and Coco- nut Oil, 



The Study of 319 



Curing Meat in Hot Weath- 

 er 307 



Department News . ... 307 

 Fruit Trees, Intermittent 



Bearing of. How to 



Avoid 312 



Gleanings 316 ' Sugar Factory Control .. 



Influence of Records on , The Crow , and Its Rela 



Development 306 I tion to Man 



Page. 



Insect Notes: — 

 Insect Notes from Porto 



Rico 314 



.Scale Feeding Habits of 



Porto Rico Millipedes 314 

 Scale Insects and Their 



Control 314 



Item>- of Local Inter- 

 est Mi 



Market Reports 32n 



Note^ and Comments ... 312 



Plant Diseases: — 



Mould> Occurring on 

 Ci ppni and Coco-nul 



Meat 318 



Rice Cultiv.ation in British 



Guiana 308 



.308 



317 



Influence of Records on Development. 



iXE of the most striking wa^s iii wbicli lIk- 

 (agriculture of the present differs from that 

 ) of the past, and in which the agriculture ot 

 the future will differ even more strikingly from that of 

 the present, is the extent to which dependence is 

 placed upon, and advancement conditioned bv, the use 

 of written records. In the past, agriculture the world 

 over has built up a body of tradition which served to 

 guide its work, and which slowly made for progress. The 

 industry \fas, to a large extent, self-contained lu late 



years, however, the increased intercourse betweea 

 farmers, and the large amount of special literature have 

 caused the farming world to be more and more invaded 

 from outside. New ideas have been thrust upon farmers, 

 some of which, taking hold, have been found to be of ser- 

 vice and have been adopted, while others have been 

 sought or tendered, and as a result, the trend of events 

 has been towards intellectual change, often amounting 

 to revolution, and consequently, farming the world over 

 no longer remains an isolated industry to be carried on 

 in a leisurely way by men who come onh" remotely 

 into contact with thi- world's affairs. 



The increased and increasing facilities for inter- 

 course between places within the same region, and also 

 between widely st-parated countries, have done much to 

 introduce and foster the new spirit, partly by making 

 exchange of ideas more readily possible, but even mor« 

 by creating competition between the farmers of w ideiy 

 separated regions. Men have been urged to make their 

 living under new conditions, and have striven to 

 increase their wealth in new surroundings, and thus 

 have brought into the world's markets va.st and unexpec- 

 ted quantities of farm products which have profoundly 

 nffected the welfare, and the ii»odes of life aw\ thoughti 

 of most distant places. In this way . the farmei"s of the 

 United Kingdom have been profoundly affected by the 

 developments on the American prairies, and by the 

 wheat fields of the Canadian West. At the same time 

 they have felt the competition of New Zealand muttoa 

 and Argentine beef 



Instances might be multiplied almost indefinitely, 

 and illustrations might be taken nearer home, if one 



