A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vv 



Vol. XVn. No. 432. 



BARBADOS. NOVEMBER .16 1913. 



Peicb li. 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Agriculture in Barbados... 359 

 Airierican Agricultural Coiii- 



mittee 3(50 



British Sugar Macliinery 

 iVIanufacturei's' Associa- 

 ti'in 356 



t'anaiia. Openings for West 

 Indian Trade with 



Cassareep 



Cork Wood, Properties 

 of 



Department News 



Gleanings ... .. 



Indian Corn Industry of 

 St. Vincent ...' ... 



Insect Notes: — 



Report on Cacao ThTips 

 in Grenada 



Iteni.s of Local Interest 



.Jerusalem Artichoke, A 

 Neglected Source of 

 Foo.i 



3(i0 

 358 



357 

 3.5'.» 

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35ti 



3«2 



3r><» 



365 



3.53 

 36K 

 367 

 ;!60 

 35S 

 36(1 



Page 



.Jerus.ileiii Artichoke, Hints 

 for Cooking 36.'' 



iMan -power, A Preventi- 

 hle Loss of 



Market Reports 



New Zealand Hemp 



Notes and Comments 



Orange Wine 



Peace within Sight 



Plant Diseases: — 



A Sclieme 'of Classiticii- 

 tionforPara sitic Plant 



Diseases 366 



The Panama Disease of 

 Bananas in Cuba ... .■166 



Philippines, A New Citrus 

 Fruit of The 



Prince Bonaparte's Collec- 

 tion of Ferns 



Spani.-li InHuenza, Epi- 

 demic of 



Tractors in Hawaiian Cane 

 Field* 



NX'est Indian Products 



... 3(11 



3H1 



361 



357 

 367 



A Preventible Loss of Man-power. 



'N'E of the results of the war will certainly 

 I be a diminution in the number of men 

 (available for agricultural labour throughout 

 the world. The hundreds of thousands of young, 

 strong men actually killed, together with the still 

 greater number maimed and partially, if not entirely, 

 incapacitated for hard work, n.'ust inevitably lead to 

 a shortage in man-power. And this is the more 

 serious as it is necessary lo increase the available 

 food supply of the world, .and to restore to fertility 



the great extent of hitherto cultivated lands now 

 wasted and devastated. 



It is true that woman-power has been revealed 

 as a resource to be reckoned with, and that motor- 

 power and mechanical implements are being more 

 and more resorted to in tillage operations. But in 

 the first case, it is to be hoped for the well- 

 being of generations yet unborn, that women will 

 not be compelled by necessity to devote their lives to 

 hard physical work: and in the second case, machmes 

 need human beings to direct and control their opera- 

 tions. 



Apart from the above considerations, an aspecb 

 of the question concerning the supply of man-power 

 touches West Indian conditions still more nearly. 

 It has been stated so often as to be a truism, that the 

 labour supply in the tropics is generally unsatisfac- 

 tory owing to one or both of two reasons Either the 

 population does not increase, even where there is 

 ample scope tor enlarged crop production, thus pre- 

 venting extension, or even where there is a large 

 population, the people are inetticient workers, lazy and 

 indifferent. These charges may be admitted to be 

 true for the most part. Some of the reasons for this 

 state of affairs have been discovered in recent years. 



Modern research has fully proved that the depreci- 

 ation of working power observable in the tropics among 

 all races inhabitioc: them, white and coloured, arise.* 

 largely from the ^ "iemic occurrence of enervating — 

 though not necessarily fatal — diseases, and that these 

 diseases can be C'Mii')(»ted with success by attackingi their • 

 causes. T'oHr chief of tb«se endemic enervating disease* 



