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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



Ji i.v 



1918. 



EDITORIAL 



Head Office 





NOTICES. 



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 specimens for naming, shonkl be addressed to the 

 Commissioner, Imperial Department of Agriculture, 

 Barbados. 



All applications for copies uf the Agricultural 

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 addressed to the Agents, and not to the Department. 



The complete list ot Agents will be found on 

 page 4 of the cover. 



Imperial Commissioner of SirFrancis ^Yatts, K.C.M.G., 



A^ifiiltnre for the West Indies D.Sc, F.LC, F.C.S. 

 SCIENTIFIC STAFF. 



Scientific Assistatit an < 

 Assistant Editor 



( W. R. Dunlop.* 



I Rev. C. H. Bnincli, B.A. 



IH. A. Balbu, M.Sc. 



'I. J. C. Hutson. B.A., Pf..D. 

 Mycologist VV. Nowell, D.I C. 



Assistant for Cotton Ile.'>-;'u-rk S. ('. HiuIhihI, B.Sc.t 



Jtntomologists 



Chief Clerk 

 Qcrical Assistants 



CLERICAL STAFF. 



A. G. Howell. 

 fL. A. Corbiu. 



, P. Taylor.* 

 Ik. R. C. F.ister. 

 Typist Mis.« 6. Robinson. 



Assistant Typist Miss W. Ellis. 



Assistant for Publications A. B. Price, Fell. Jouni. Inst. 



*iieco)idfd for Militnrij Sei cici:. 



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V'.i.. XVU. S.MIKIiAN, Jll.V 27, IDls. N... Il'4. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Contents of Present Issue. 



The benefits which the science of plant physiology 

 renc'crs to agriculture is the subject of the editoiial. 



•Some recent applications of entomolngisls' 

 Tescarches in thi- control of mosquitoes will l)e ffjund 

 niKl.r Insect Notes, on page 234 



All inteie.sling article on the production of hybrid 

 water-lilies in St. Vincent appears on page -I'M). 



The distinguishing characteristics of the two West, 

 Indian .spocie.'i of the <• iljbi;^e palm ■■\y 'ii-f:ribed on 

 ^Mgeii.'JT. 



'West Indian- Bulletin', Vol. XVII, No 1. 



The tir.st, two paper.s in this number of the" West 

 Imlian BaW'tin. which has just been issued, are 

 by the Mycologist and Kntomologist attached to 

 this Department, recording respectively their investi- 

 gations on internal disease affecting cotton bolls in 

 .St. Vincent, and of the insects which are con- 

 nected with its spread. The first of these papers, 

 bj' the Mycologist, is re'erred to in another column of 

 this number oi the Agricnltand Xeirs. The third 

 paper IS a statement by the Agricultural Superin- 

 tendent, St. X'inctnt, on the beiieticial results obtained 

 by measuri s adopted to control the cotton stainer, and 

 the fourth' is a record of results obtained also by him 

 in trapping the cotton stainer in that island. Some 

 notes on the thymol content of horse-mint and ajowan 

 seed, obtained after analy.ses made by him in Antigua, 

 are given by the Acting (government Chemist and 

 .Superintendent of Agriculture for the Leewaid Lslands 

 in the fifth paper. The last paper contains some obser- 

 vations on fish poisoning in the fJritish \'irgin Islands, 

 by Dr. Clarke, the Medi?al Ottic?r of that Presidency. 



Unusual Weathei- in Dominica. 



Mr. Joseph .lone?, the (.'urator of the Botanic 

 Station, Dominica, reports that on the night of July 11, 

 a scjuall of considerable violence was experienced on 

 the south and soull.-west coasts of that island. In 

 Roseau, for about twenty minutes between !I4."> and 

 10. SO p.m., gvisis of almost hurricane force came from 

 the south. The Botanic (larden is fairly well pro- 

 tected on that side, and sutlered only slight damage, 

 but at the Experiment Station a few lime trees were 

 blown down 



There has been some loss of lime trees, with a con- 

 siderable loss of immature fruit, imi the south and the 

 south-west coast estates. On the north of the island 

 the wind was scarcely felt. 



For the three days before this unusual storm was 

 experienced the weather had been unsettled, the rainfall 

 at the (Jaiileii during that period being o'.i'l inches. 



The Piofltable Cultivation of Ground Pro- 

 visions. 



.\ note in tlu' liidUliii <>/ Ihc JJrjiiiri ntciH uf 

 Aijri( allure, Trinuhulaivl TolianD. \'ol. .\\T1, Part 1, 

 issued June 17, 191S, gives actual figures of some 

 le.'-idts obtained during the past season in the cultiva- 

 tion of ground provisions Now that so much atten- 

 tion is being given to this ipiestion. it is important to 

 empliasi/e "he advantage of intensive cultivation. 

 .Many cultixators attempt to work ii large area m 

 poor fashion, and get correspondingly pjor returns, 

 whereas, in many cases, from the .same labour and 

 expenditure on a smaller area, larger priti's would be 

 ob '.■lined. 



