

A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



LIUKA 

 NfcW V 

 KOTANI 



\ XIV. No. 332. 



BARBADOS, JANUARY L6, 1915. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



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Anti-strangles Serum 

 Balata Indust ry in British 



Guiana 



BookShelf 



Canadian ( 'ustoins Laws... 

 Cold Storage for Tropical 



Funis 



Cotton Not< - 



Cotton-I rrow ing Competi- 

 tion in St. Vincent ••■ 



Wesl Indian C.itti.n ... 

 1 >ep mi mental Reports . . 

 Dominica, Transport of 



Produce in 



Fruit Trees, Stocks for ... 

 Fungus Notes: 



( loco-nut and< lacao I >is 



eases 



Gleanings 



Horse Manure, Ply l..u \ ae 

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Indian t lorn 



Insect Notes: 



Bean Caterpillars in 

 Florida 



Cyanide of Potassium in 



Trees 



International < !ongress 



Papi i s, \l'-i racts of ... 

 Jute, A Substitute for ... 

 La Cuite or Pan Sugar ... 



Market Reports 



Notes and Gomments ... 



Persona] Notes 



Seed, • 'hange of 



Students' t lorner 



Sugar Industry: 



Prospects of Sugai Indus 

 trj in St. Lucia 

 West Indian Exhibits at 



the Imperial Institute... 

 West I ndian Products ... 



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West Indian Exhibits at the 

 Imperial Institute. 



*$\ ~^$jt II E various committees, and the local Depart- 



>^V- iOLrnents of Agriculture in the West Indies have 

 (■^ fKJ!j r % \'iif some years now displayed great interest 

 anil energy in connexion with tin- representation 

 of their several colonies al periodical exhibitions. 

 A West Indian Court is now a regular featureofthe 

 Canadian National Exhibition held each year al 

 Toronto; the same can be said as regards the Royal 

 Agricultural Show in England, which has recently 

 extended its scope to include the Tropics; and the 

 circumstance holds good also in the case of the Tropical 



Exhibitions, which are from time to timi 

 arid elsewhere. 



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The West [ndian exhibits, contained in the Colo- 

 nial collections at the Imperial Institute in London, 

 occupy a rather different status from those which are 

 tn be seen at ordinary commercial exhibitions. The 



possibility that this may not be fully underst I in 



the West Indies may explain why, in some respects, 

 these colonies allow themselves to be but poorly 

 represented. Even for economical reasons, proper 

 representation in England of West [ndian p >s-iliil- 

 ities is eminently desirable, lint, in the case of 

 the Colonial collections at the Imperial Institute, 

 there are other aspects which point still more 

 clearly to the importance of comprehensive representa- 

 tion. The exhibition galleries are not museums in the 

 popular sense of the term. The specimens are in 

 charge of technical superintendents, who ate on the 

 spot to answer formal enquiries concerning Colonial 

 produce. These officers are in a position to place 

 visitors in touch with the producers, and they are also 

 able to refer enquirers to the manufacturers. The 

 exhibits are therefore in no way mere ornaments, but 

 are intended to arouse actual interest in the resources 

 of the various colonies, by having their products on 

 exhibition as far as possible in bulk. Very often too, 

 specimens, particularly material like seeds, waxes, and 

 gums, are of value in the identification of recenth 

 received samples of the same kind; hence exhibits of 

 the relatively minor products, of perhaps but trifling 

 commercial interest locally, are technically valuable in 

 London. In this small but useful way one colons can 

 help another. 



During the past year or two there has been 

 a general trend toward utilizing more fully the poten- 

 tial interests of collect tons for educational purposes. 

 In the museums and botanical gardens ofthe United 

 Kingdom a system of guides has been established, 



