A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



07 THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. XII. No. 297. 



BARBADOS, SEPTEMBER 13. 1913. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Pack. 



Atfiiciiltiujil Development in 

 the We>t Indies 207 



Agricultur.il Literature, De- 

 mand fi.r 'JSO 



Cacao, Fermentation by 



Mechaniral IMeans ... 292 

 Chickeii.s. Eye Worm of... 293 

 Citrus Fruit, Ettout of Fer- 

 tilization on (^lualitv 



of .". 292 



Cotton Notes : — 



Uritish Cotton Growinjr 



As.sociation 294 



Sakellari<les Versus Sea 



Jslanil Cotton 29+ 



West Indian Col ton ... 294 

 Cow Te.-ting Associa- 



tion.s 293 



D.inisli Tulierculin Unions 293 

 Departmental Reports ... 299 



Egypt, Upper, Prospects of 

 the Fruit Grower in ...292 



Fungus Notes : — 



Witch Brooui Disease of 

 Caca 302 



Gleanings 30(1 



Pagk. 



Insect Notes : — 



The l"se ot Flour Paste in 



S|aaying -'-.^S 



Manual Labour, Elliriency 

 of in Diflerent Opera- 



29.5 

 8i'4 

 291 

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 297 

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Market Reports ... . 

 Migration, A Strange . 

 Milk Supply, Problem 



a Pure 



Mihu'. Profe.ssor John . 

 Notes and Comments . 

 Publiivitions of the United 



States Department of 



Agriculture 297 



Rice, Pollination and Cro.-s- 



Ftrtilization 301 



Ruljber. Sodium Bisulphite 



in Preparation nf I'lant.i- 



tion Para 303 



Rubber Trees, Para, Varie- 

 ties of :!i)3 



St. Vincent and Artificial 



!Mauures 296 



Students' Corner 301 



Sulphr.i in Vulcanized Rub- 



b,r. Migration of 3f'3 



Demand for Agricultural Literature. 



:'HE chitf difKculty which ])romoters of agii- 

 ' cultural progress have had to face has always 

 [been — to use a popular phrase — the dit+i- 

 culty of 'getting at' the people. Unlike that of most other 

 industries, agricultural work is -cattered; there is little 

 opportunity for personal intercour.se, and representative 

 meetings can only be brought about by those interested 

 making considerable sacrifices a? regards time and 



trouble, and not infrequently as regards money also. lb 

 has become a problem, then, amongst the various 

 Departments and other institutions interested in 

 agricultural advancement, to say exactly how informa- 

 tion and advice can be most satisfactorily dissemi- 

 nated. The appointment of instructors and in- 

 spectors has been one line of action that has 

 been taken for the diffusion of knowledge and 

 advice: It is a line which is undergoing con.siderable 

 develoijment, for it has been found that practical demon- 

 stration is more certain to impi-ess than a mere written 

 description, and that a quiet conversation and the 

 discussion in a common-sense way of the pros and cons 

 of any case in which improvement is desired, will lead 

 quicker to more concrete results than correspondence 

 and printed articles. 



Although in many of its aspects, the advice 

 of inspectors and the information of instructors 

 calls for a great deal of support, it is generally the 

 case that an efficient staff of this kind is out of the 

 question in most places owing to the high degree of 

 expenditure which it involves. So that under most 

 circumstances the diffusion of knowledge in agriculture 

 depends upon other agencies, the most important of 

 which is the issuing of publications. 



The reason for approaching this subject has really 

 arisen through the announcement of suggested changes 

 in the plans of the Secretary of Agriculture of the 

 United States, as regards that Department's pub- 

 lications. The matter lias been dealt with in som« 

 detail on another page in this issue. The point which 

 the announcement raises is a very important one, and 

 it is this: that in the indiscriminate publication and 

 distribution of agricultural literature there must neces- 

 sarily be a great deal of waste. Even amongst pub- 

 lications of a very practical kind this will occur, 



