A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



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BOTAN' 



\ XIV. No. :i:i4. 



BARBADOS, FEBRUARY 13, 1915. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



I'.v B. 



dtural Credit S 



ties 



ulture in Zanzibar... 



jua, Vegi table Grow 



ing in 



Blood, Effect of Tropics on 



I sh Agriculture and 



the War. 



Budding in Estate 

 Practice 



1 u ao Prohibit ion: Effect 

 "ii Prices 



Citrus Canker, United 

 States Quarant ineagainst 



Coi ii. Imports into Trini- 

 dad 



Cotton Notes:— 



W est Indian Cotton ... 



Department News 



Departmental Reports ... 



Flyish-Fish Parasite ... 



Fungus Notes 

 More about Citrus 



(anker 



57 

 57 



54 

 56 



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52 



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56 



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r>4 

 54 

 55 

 61 



to 



in 

 by 



62 



Gleanings 



Insect Notes: 



Notes mi Am- ... 



Pests d£ Cacao ... 



1 ii ks in Relation 



I diseases of Stock 



Maize Consumption 



Different Forms 



Swine 



Maize in Antigua, Com 



men il Handling of ... 



Market Eleports 



Notes and Comments 

 St udents' Corner 



Sugai' Indust i > 



( lolonial Cane, or Home- 



Grown P.i-it ' 



Messchaert Juice 



< Grooves 



Sugar Situation, The 

 Sun Power, Utilization 



of 



West Indian Products ... 



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 60 



.v.. 

 58 



53 



114 

 56 



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 63 



The Sugar Situation. 



'S we go tn press, the New York quotations 

 for raw sugars show a decided upward 



[tendency, fulfilling th- general anticipation 

 that, if the usual quantities are this year to go to Canada 

 growers will be able to dispose of their crops on the 

 basis "i something over So per 100 ft»., New York 

 Prices by the end of April or the beginning of May. 



The sugar situation since Augusl I, of last year, 

 has been very complicated and • tremelj difficult to 

 prognosticate, [mmediately after the outbreak of war 



tin buying stimulation which permeated the United 



States as a result of purchases made by the British 

 Government in that country, created a fictitious value 

 of over $6. Supplies were uol curtailed, and when 

 evi ryone was full of sugar, the demand suddenly ceased, 



and it began to be realized that supplies, instead of 

 proving short, wen- much in excess of the demand. 

 Towards the end of September therefore, a rapid 

 decline set in, and up to the present date a level of 

 about s:i has been steadily maintained. But now that 

 stocks are becoming exhausted, and the Cuban crop 

 is being held up by rain, a revival has set in which 

 we hope may be lasting, at anj rati-, a- tar as the 

 West Indies are concerned. 



The world's sugar market is almost entirely gov- 

 erned by England, and it will bo worth while consider- 

 ing briefly the action which that country has taken 

 since last August. The Royal Commission, which was 

 at that time appointed to deal with the situation 

 resulting from a cessation of Austro-German supplies, 

 purchased large quantities of raw sugar from Cuba, 

 .lava, and the British Colonies. The next action was to 

 ti\ a maximum price for ordinary refined sugar. This 



did not seriously interfere with the gr n trade, but it 



affected manufacturers who were accustomed tin- many 

 years to a supply of verj cheap raw sugar. Quite 

 recently, a reduction has been made in the ease of 

 .Mauritius sugar for the benefit of the confectioners. 



t roine back to tin events of t Ictober, tin t lovern- 

 ment further found it necessary to prohibit the import 

 of all sugars by private persons, since some of these 



supplies had undoubtedly I n coming from neutral 



countries, which were replacing this sugar with con- 

 signments received from the enemy. As a result of 



representations made by the West [ndia Cot ittee, 



tl,, Government agreed to permit the importation of 



