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A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



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Vol. XII. No. 298. 



BARBADOS, SEPTEMBER 27, 1913. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Agiicnltuial Colleges in the 

 Tropics, Views on Estab- 

 lishment (if 312 



Agricultural Societies, 



Bn-inch :n.s| 



Banana Cultivati'in in Brit- | 



ish Guiana. :U2 | 



Cacao Picker Ijll 



Canada and the West 

 Indies 306 



Cattle, Dwaif, in Nigeria 309 j 

 Coir Fibre. Mechanical 



311 



310 

 .•ilO 

 316 



Preparation of ... 



Cotton Notes : — 



Cotton in Nyasaland . 

 West Indian Cotton . 



Departmental Reports . 



Fruit in India, Packing and 

 Transporting of 308 



Fruits, Tropical and Temper- 

 ate. Chemical Composi- 

 tion of 308 



Fungus Notes : — 

 A Disease of Rice 

 Sterilization of Seed . . 



Gleanings 



Insect Notes : — 



k Lucerne and Lawn 



Pest 314 



Another Cockroach Poi- 

 son 314 



Paoe. 

 Insect Notes (Contd.) 



Destruction of Mfde Crick- 

 ets in Porlo l\ico by 

 Heron or Gauldiiig ... .314 

 The Cotton UolTWeevil 

 in the United States dur- 

 ing 1!»12 314 



Live Stock Improvement in 

 Great Britain, Grants-iii- 



Aidof 309 



Maniho: Rubber 317 



Market Reports 320 



Milk Fat, Percentage of and 



(,,)uantity of Milk .300 



Mule, Fertile 309 



Notes and Comments ... 312 

 Philippine Islands, Co-oper- 

 atne Agricultural Deuron- 



stratioii in 307 



Plants, Patent Implement 



for Singlina; 311 



Reversible Steel Barrel .. 311 

 Secondary Schools, Practi- 



West Indies, Advertising 305 

 West Indies, Agricultural 

 Credit Societies in ... 307 



Advertising the West Indies. 



XE Canadian and at least two English jour- 

 inals of great repute and popularity have 

 ^recently announced their belief that what 

 the ^^'cst Indies need at present above ever3-thiDg else 

 is advertisement. The subject is an interesting one, 

 and it allows of considerable discussion. 



In what ways do the West Indies require adver- 

 tisement? How is it to be done ' )no suggestion has 



been put forward that these Colonies should fol- 

 low the example set in London by Australia, 

 Canada and the Federated Malay States, and 

 establish r.n agency in one of the principal 

 thoroughfares where specimens of agricultural and 

 mineral products could be exhibited, and information 

 concerning the Colonies disseminated. It has been said 

 that the West India Committee might take some 

 action in this direction: but we are dubious as to 

 whether any great benefit would accrue from it, at least 

 sufficient benefit to warrant the expenditure which 

 a prominent site and un active staff would demand. 

 It must be remembered, too, that the main object 

 of this sort of agency is, in the main, to attract capital 

 and emigrants. With the exception of British 

 Guiana, British Honduras and perhaps Dominica, 

 there is little opening for the individual capitalist, and 

 certamly none for labour in the West Indies. The 

 general advertisement of these Colonies by means of 

 exhibits has never been r.eglected however, nor should 

 it be. Representation at the Canadian National 

 Exhibition supplemented by the free distribution of 

 the booklet entitled The West Indies in Canada, 

 revised and published each year by the Imjierial 

 Department of Agriculture, continues to answer 

 a useful purpose. The Colonial Exhibition Galleries 

 at South Kensington, if they do nothing more, place 

 on record for general information what these Colonies 

 produce; whilst representation at the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Show in England is bound to prove instructive 

 to the masses of that countrj-. Most of this form of 

 advertisement, however, is too general and passive to 

 be of any immediate use commercially, though in this 

 connexion due credit must be given to the Canada- 

 West India League for realizing this circumstance as 

 shown by their active display of energy last year at 

 Toronto. 



