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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



\" . EM BEE (i, 1915. 



EDITORIAL 



■ I ii ll' E 







NOTICES. 



Iarbados. 



I. blical ion, a- well as all 



specimens for naming, should he addressed t" thi 



Commissioner, [mperial Department of Agriculture, 



idos. 



All app for copies of the Agricultural 



\ ami other Depat puh should 1"' 



addressed to the Agents' and no1 to the Department. 



The i tsl ol \- riis and the subscription 



and advertisemenl rates, will ho found on page 3 of 

 'Ii.' covei 



Imperial Commissionei I ahcis Watts, C.M.G., D.Sc. 



tfa JVest Indies l [.C, F.C.S. 

 seics nil' — i v. i i . 



and 

 Assistant Editor 

 Etdi mi logist 



i LEBII \l- - i \ I I . 



\. G. Bowell. 



M. B Connell. 

 or Clerk W P. Bovell, 



taut Juuior ' ''• ■/. I'. Taylor. 



Typist Miss B. Robinson. 



I \. I'.. Price, Fell. Journ. Inst. 



\\. R. Dunlop 



II. A. Ballou, M Sc. 



\\. Nowell, l> I C. 



Assistants foi l'>>l,t'<r 



\L. A. Corbin. 



Jtgricultiirat llnr.s 



Vol. XIV. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1915. No. 353. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Contents of Present Issue. 



Tli> 'I in this number deals with the use 



and some of thi dangers attendant on scientific naming, 

 and tin' correspondi nl feal urcs of common or \ ernacular 



in is. 



Land for Ex-Soldiers. 



Tlir following notice appears in the St. I. 

 M, , ial Gazettt for October 9, 1915 



'The < lovernment has appro 5 of 



land being made to members "I' the Si. I. 

 1 1. tachmenl of the Wesl India Ovei ' Contingent 



who return w itli g I discharge sb upon 



follow ing condii i"iis: — 



(hi Each grant to 1"' as nearh as po 

 acres. 



1 1. 1 Xi. ex-meml 

 sheet to recei 1 i a grant of 1 



(ci l'".\. n member recei\ ii ■_ 



sat isty the Government tl ill make g I use ol 



the land. 



(d) No land so bo I"' alienable or 

 mortgageable under a period reive ye trs except 

 with special permission ofthe G ernot in-Council. 



(e) Where possible the land so granted shall 

 in the district iii which the ex members reside. 



(f) The lands granted in each district if poss 

 in be in one « hole. 



(g) Economic plants will he provided free of 

 charge l>v tic Agricultural I >epartment.' 



In connexion with the foregoing it will be 

 remembered that tic question of land settlement by 

 ex-soldiers was discussed by the Economic Section 

 at. the recent meeting of the British Association (or 

 the Advancement of Science al .Manchester. Thi 

 idea has many features to support it, and no doubt will 

 be given consideration throughout the Empire. 



It may be mentioned that in regard re St. Lucia, 

 the [mperial Department of Agriculture is about to 

 issue a new and revised edition of the pamphlet, 

 Hints to Settlers in St Lucia, which will no doubt 

 meet with a new and ready demand 



i in page 356, « ill be found ■■< report "ii the 



husiiiess working of the St. Lucia Government lime 



i \ t'.r the ciei' m -Inn. I 1914 to March 



:.. 1915. 



1 1: .. i -i Notes on page 362, deal w ith the use of 

 starch, instead of lime, with arsenical poisons in regard 

 o pi ts in St. Vincent. An art icle is also continued 

 from the last issue of this Journal. 



Agricultural investigations in Ceylon during 1914 



are d( ' i -■'' 365. 



West Indian Fruit and the War. 



Tic English papers indicate very definitely that 



the gifts of West Indian oranges and 1 s are greatly 



appreciated in the military hospitals To show how 

 much the gilts of fruit from Trinidad. Jamaica and 

 Dominica are welcomed, says the West India Commit- 

 tee Circular, the Attendant to the Provision Depart- 

 menl at the led Cross depot at Reading writes: 'I 

 only wish the Wesl Indian planters could see how very 

 much tic fruit is appreciated. We are constantly I" 

 rung up and appealed to for limes hv the diffei 

 i natrons, and the men will leave anything lor an orange.' 



A cutting from the Western Daily Press, just 

 received states On behalf of the Armv Council the 



Wi si India < !oi 1 1 buted ovi i 6 500 



cases of fruit from the Dominica and Jamaica Agricul- 

 tural Societies, and the Trinidad Orange and Lime 

 Committee. Among recent gifts from overseas I 

 been 4(> Imperial gallons of coco nut oil from Trinidad 

 lor our Sikhs' hair, and I 500 walking sticks cut from 

 native woods in Jamaica for wounded soldiers.' 



The Si subject receives attention also in The 



World for September 21, which in the course of an 

 article on the West Indian Battalions remarks on the 



