TfiE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



NovK.Mi:£K 30, 191 S. 



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 IBnrbados. 



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 addressed to the Agents, and not to the Department. 



The complete li?t of Agents will be t'ound on 

 page 4 of iL,^ covi-' 



Impf.rial Comihis-iioner o( Sir Francis Watts, K.C.M.G., 



Agrindture f(fr thf jrcsf Jmrfics D.Sc, F.T.C., V r.S 



SCIENTIFIC STAFf. 



Jjeieiili/u; A^iUlant ani | W. R. Duiilop. * 



AssiMant EdiiM lEev. C. 11. Branoii, B. A 



Aitomologir. H. A. Ball .u, M.IS-. 



J£ycologi.si W. Nowell, D.I.C. 



Assi'laiit for V''ttot\ t!e«eMreh 8.' C. Uarland, B.Sc.t 



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 ^isrstniit for Publicution- 



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 \P. Taylor.* 



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 M;86 B. Robinson 

 Miss W. Ellis. 



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*Stcuiiiitd fur Miliiury Seivict. 



fPt;vvutnI by the Imperial Vepartuiieut 0/ >'<.<.' /I'l/t'' imi 

 Indv.strw.1 JieHarch. 



ToL. .WIl. SATUlfDAY, NOVJiMBEK 3U, 1918. No. j.j.j. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



The editorial in this number dealti with the jiiipr-r- 

 tHiu. question of deterioration ij/ Sea J.sland cotton. 



Iiiseoi Nott?s, on page 878. give a .suuiinaiA ot the 

 •joourrence of insect pests ob.'?<Tved ii> the smaller Itritisii 

 West Inrlif^n islandh during the year 194 7. 

 r- 



I'he appearanotj of a new fungus diKeatju ot eoflee m 

 iMinnaoi is notM' under I'Lint IHpe.ifies on iKige ;i82. 



The i'lTfli pitrt of :< heruie >>Xi moffjtiito eontrol, by 

 a di->r.lrigui.-lK'!'Aui<'"fi>\ii >■ jivoiYii li>2;i^1. is' reproOnCvd 

 cm (lu'if- 37 i 



The 'West Indian Bulletin', Vol, XVII, No. 2. 



'i'he first paper in this numlier of the lIVs/ Iiti/iim 

 ,B'(ll<t)v. which has recently been issued, is a continu- 

 ation bv Mr. .'^. 1.". Uarland of the record of his manu- 

 rial experiments with Sea Island cotton in St. Vincent. 

 The first article on these experiimnts, conducted at the 

 St. Vincent Experiment Station rhu-ing the period 

 19I'2-17. appeared in the W'cht ladlmi Ihillctin, 

 Vol. X\'l, .\'o. '■>. The present article deals with the 

 experiments carried through in i!n7 ]8. The interest- 

 ing sunmiary of the results obtained, and the conclu- 

 sions arrived at by the author are rejuoduced .^n anothtr 

 page- of this number of the Aitricalhtral A't'irx. 



The second papei. a short one, by Mr. J>. 10 KA- 

 .sick. deals with the relation of lini length in cotton to 

 rainfall. Mr. ICclsiet's conclusions as a icsult of his 

 observations will also be found on anotlier page of this 

 number of thi' Afiriculturid i\v >' ;>■ 



The thiiri pa|ier is the Hoport on the ])revalence of 

 some posts .and disi-ases in the West Indies duriue: lf)17. 

 This IS compiled bv the Kntotuoiogist and llvco!ot>iso 

 attachf^d to this Department. A review of the first 

 part of this report wUl be for.nd under Insect Notes in 

 the present number of this .lournal. 



The ii>Mrth paper relates to the slirird<age of soils, 

 the larger portion of which has been reproduced fi-oui a 

 paper by Dr. H. A. 'J'erapany, in the Journal a/ Af/ri~ 

 iniiitirai Srinii<'. ybi. VIll. J'arr :i. 



It will thus be seen that the present nund)er of the 

 ll>,sf Inr/i(t7i Bidlctiv. although somewh:vt shorter 

 than usiiai, contain* mattii I'f distinct intenst. 



The Pink Boll Wonn at Barbados. 



A schooner recently arrived at Marliados from 

 I'ara, Bra;<il. with a mi.xed cargo consisting of cotton 

 seed, pollard, dry cassava, aial cass^ivji firine. 



Thj^ cotton seed w.as destined for oil mills in iJ.u- 

 bados. and the entire cargo was to be l.mded at that 

 port, and .i portion of it forwarded later on to England. 



According to the autliority vested in him bv the 

 t>r<lerof November 2l,l!n2, the Superintendent of 

 Agriculliiie. Jlarbados. prohibited the landing oi' the 

 cargi", becan.«e the cotton seed came from a countrv 

 where a Serit>iis pest of cotton (the pink boil worm) was 

 known to occur. The cotton secil and the other cargo^ 

 were regarded as things which tnight introduce the 

 pest into the islau/l. The cargo did not only come 

 from a country in which a dangerous pest is known to 

 exist, but it was ae.tuall}' iid'ested. as evidenced h\ the 

 'capture in the liolils of the sciiooner of seveial moths 

 of the [)ink boil worm [Uclci'liia (/(>sx//fn<U(t). A small 

 portion of the cargo other than cotton. seed was Jaiuled,, 

 but this wasafteiwards ordered to be reshipped. 



The linal .leiipn in the matter indicates that the 

 entinr cargo will be transhipped in thi.' bay to some 

 vessi.'l which will c(»n.vey it to Khgland. 



'J'be ai rival of a vessel at a port in the West 

 Indies carrying a cargo of cotton seed infested by the- 



