THE AORICULTUliAL NEWS. 



January +, 1913 



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Vol. XIT. SATURDAY, .JAXrAltV 4, 191.3. No. 279. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Contents of Present Issue. 



The leading ai'ticle in this number deals with 

 subjects that were brought forward in the agricultural 

 section of the recent meeting of the British Association 

 at Dundee. The article provides a summary of several 

 "matters of interest to agriculturists in the West Indies. 



Page 4 contains an interesting account of a method 

 of budding for the mango that is employed by the Agri- 

 cultural Department of St. Lucia. 



On page o will be found an article of some 

 importance that treats of the cultivation of conifers in 

 ^he tropics. The employment of these trees may well 

 Ibe extended in tropical latitudes. 



The continuation of an article on the West Indian 

 cotton-growing season. 1911-12, is given en pages 6 and 

 7, together with a review of the market and a summary 

 of the prices obtained during the crop year, in Liver- 

 pool and ( "harleston. 



The Insect Notes, on page 10, are concerned with 

 Ihe black witch or tick bird {Crotophaga ani). 



The san>e page contains the greater part of an 

 article on important e.Nperimcnts that are being 

 conducteil with Heica hrasUiensis in Ceylon. 



The papers in the recent Intermediate and Final 

 Examinations for the Courses of reading of the 

 Department are re\iewed on page l-'$. 



Publications of the Imperial Department of 



Agiiculture. 



Part 1 of Volume .Xlllof the West I .lildtn Bulk- 

 fiv, together with the Inde.x and Title Page of Vol- 

 uiup Xn, has just been issued. It contains the eon- 

 tnuialion of the papers presented at the recent; 

 Agric'diural Conference, the subjects dealt with being 

 Cotton and Agricultural Educiuioii. 



The p.ipors appifaring uncler Cotton are: The 

 R suits I'f the Cultivation uf Cotton in St. Vincent, by 

 W. \ S»nd«'; The Cotton Industry in the Leeward 

 Islands, bv H. A. Temi>any. B.Sc: The Cotton Industry 

 in Barbados, by J. R. Bovell. I S.O., F.C.S., F.LS.; 

 Cotton Selection in Montserrat, The manner of Cross- 

 Pollination of Cotton in Montserrat, and Sakellarides 

 Cotton in Montserrat, by W. Robson; The Cotton Boll 

 Weevil, and Notes on Certain Cotton Pests, by H. A. 

 Ballou, M.Sc; Outline of Manurial Experiments oa 

 Cotton in Tobago, by J. de Verteuil, F.C.S.; Cotton 

 Experiments in British Guiana, by Professor J. B. 

 Harrison, t'.M.d, M.A , F.I.C. .md F. A. Stockdale, 

 M.A., F.LS. 



Under Agricultural Ivlucatiou there are included 

 the following: Agricultural Education in Grenada with 

 Special Reference to the Boys' Secondary School, by 

 D. H. Jones, B.A.; The Need for Higher Agricultural 

 Education in the West Indies, by Dr. A. Fredholm; 

 A Lectureship in Tropical Agriculture, by S. Simpson, 

 B.Sc, M R.A.S E., N.D A.; Peasant Agriculture iu 

 Grenada: Suggestions for its Ci)ntrol and Improvement, 

 by G. (i. Auchinleck, BSc, F.C.S. 



The Annual Reports on the Agricultural Depart- 

 ments in St. Lucia and Dominica have been issued. 

 The form of these has been changed, chieHy by an 

 alteration of the order of the matter, so as to bring 

 into prominence the more interesting parts of the 

 report: and a series of chief headings, classifying the 

 subjects of the repoit into sections having a wide 

 significance, has been introduced. Both of the reports 

 are illustrated. 



The llV.s/ Indian Ihdlctin, Vol. .\1II, No. 1, is 

 now on sale by the Agents for the publications of the 

 Department, price (id. post free Sd. 



It may be mentioned that the agenc}' in Barbados 

 for the sale of the publications of this Department has 

 been transferred from Messrs. Bowen and Sons to the 

 Advocate Co. Ltd., Broad Street, Bridgetown. 



Some Recent Books on Cacao. 



Two books on cacao have recently been reviewed 

 in A'aturc: the first is entitled C'>coa and Cli<ieolate: 

 Their Chemistry and Manufacture: the second is 

 entitled Cocoa: Its Culti ndion and Preparation. 

 The former volume, by R. Whymper, appears to deal 

 mainly with the technique of manufacture, though 

 a section is devoted to the botany and cultivation of 

 the plant. In contradistinction to the comprehensive 



