Vol. XIV. No. 



THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



3C1 



and fruit : thi h of fruit,' 



it conclude -. ■ iii-i r stops.' 



From the West India < ular it is 



also I lat linn - and i ire being senl from 



Trin I in 



Ideas of coin 



bul the 

 facl rcmai 



lead I rest Indian lime in 



1 Britain, if n ■ in Em and provide ns 



the war, w ith a new mark 



Obituary. 



W _ ■ ■ record the r< cenl di ath .-it 



the agi oi l- of Mr. K. A. \ ner ol the La Haul 



andAntiim Vallei Doi ica. Mr. Agar tool? 



a keen inter* - | ural developmenl of 



i and occ sev< ral honorary positions 



>l i li Planters' Associ i 

 Member of the Permanent Exhibition Committee, and 

 Correspondent of the West India Committi 



Mr. Agar died on l 22. His funeral was 



attended by His Excellenc} the Governor of the 



I. ii'il Islands, and HisHon • the Administrator of 



I >ominica. 



We also have to announce the death of Mr. F It. 

 Cap. Ilo, ol St. Kitts. who died i n • Ictober 1!), after an 



opert Mr. Capello was closely associated with the 



cotton industrj of Si Kitts, and will also be remem- 

 bered as an energetic member of the local turf club. 



Coloured Cotton. 



Mr. If. Forster Parkinson, of Barbados, has furn- 

 ished us with a cutting from the New York Times 

 containing an American article on coloured cotton. 

 . ' thai a planter in South Carolina has 



succeeded in producing cotton which ranges in colour 

 from snow white to n deep olive green. It is asserted 

 that black cotton, soughl - by spinners and 



manufacturers, is about to become a reality. The 

 plantei imeflts are borne out by the receipt in 



Savannah of samples of his coloured cottons. The 

 exhibit has been framed and hung on the walls of the 



m Exchange, where il has occasioned a great 

 amount of interesl and comment. 



The seed used in the experiments were those of 

 ! le. Seed selection has been pra 



i xtensively, and in four years this grower has obta i 

 in regular order from the Egyptian seed a cream tari 

 yellow light brown, olivi -urn, and bi 



It is believed thai the attainments which have thus 

 far been achieved, warrant the assertion that : 



■: i- coming in the near future. 



I believi d tl at the spinners and manufact urers 



will eventuall) bi enabled btain cotton in the raw 



or unmanufactured state in any desired shad, or 

 colour. 



We would advise our readers to refrain from 

 giving credence to the above until such time as the 



c iua\ receive the official atti nti f the I Fnited 



States I >epartm< nt ol Agricultun . 



Damage to Crops in Dominica by Storm 

 of August 10. 



I' io 111 the Botanic 



ns Domii A 



Xn<-< for S ; to the nature of the storm 



last issue (0 ncerns the 



extent "I such lossi - as have been i d on the 



estates referred to \ under 'Down the [sli 



for Septembi r -'>. I; appears ft 

 made by the Assistant Curator (Mr. G. A Jones), that 



i fcher about 10 is distributed over a number 



bul i hal the ra 

 have bei n pi back and propped in an upright 

 posit ion, and m ■ p er. 



Tli. poli ad p bi th. majority of planters in 

 this matter of propping is advocated in the I I' \. 

 pamphlet on Lime Cultivation and was reproduced 

 in the editorial to this Journal forAugusI 28. In some 

 cases, after the storm referred to, the practice ol 

 'stumping' was employed. This consisted in cu 

 back thr trees to within 3 or t feet of the ground. 

 Mr. Joseph Jones, the Curator, considers this an 

 unnecessarily drastic measure; but, as Mr. Nbwell, the 

 Mycologist to this Department points out, it is always 

 desirable eventually to cut off the old top after 

 the nevi growth has become active. Naturally the 

 loss occasioned by storm damage depends largely upon 

 the extent to which the roots have been displaced, and 

 the whole question of reparation calls for careful 

 examination and sound judgement. 



It will be useful to know what success has resulted 

 from the efforts to re establish the damaged lime trees 

 by the methods referred to by Mr. Jones. The 

 information should be a valuable guide to procedure in 

 future years. 



St. Lucia Agricultural Credit Ordinance. 



The St. Lucia Official Gazette lor October L 

 contains a cop} of an < 'rdinance assented to by the 

 Governor of the Windward Islands, for the registration, 

 encouragemenl and assistance of agricultural credit 

 societies under the Raiffeisen system. Comparison 

 with the St. Vincent Act of 1913 (see West Indian 

 Bulletin, Vol. XIV, No. I ) will shew that the provisions 

 oi the two Acts are virtually the same with the 

 exeepti. .ii that in the St. Lucia Act the Government 



make loans provided the leans to the societii s in 

 the aggregate do not i sceed £3,000. In the 

 St. Vincent Act the limit allowed is £500. Further, the 



ai mi of the lean to any one society m proportion to 



ever) member is raised in the St. Lucia let I i £6; in 

 i he case of St. Vincent it is £5. 



The introduction of the St. Lucia Acl is an 



.[ ion of the spread of agricultural credit 

 in the West In. lies. 1J. ■f.Tcnce ha- reci .n 1 1 \ been made 

 in this Journal to the new Trinidad Ordinance, which 

 i- also i i 3 Vincent experiment. The 



developmenl bo and cons, quent on the 



above legislation will be followed with inter 



