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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Contents of Present Issue. 



The editorial in this issue forms a continuation of 

 the one thai appeared in the last, and gives the history 

 of some of the agencies responsible for the introduction 

 <>(' Wist Indian plantsand animals. Special considera- 

 tion is given to Kew in this respect. 



Articles dealing with sugar will be found on pages 

 1 16 and 117. 



The recenl suggest! f a bacon factory for the 



\\ -t Indies is coi >n page I 18. 



[nseel and Fungus Notes dealing with soil- 



■■ tbs and fui ntrol of scale insects 



respectively, will be found on pages 122 and li'n. 



brought forwan 



ion « ith a report which had 



The International Institute of Agriculture in 



Relation to the Tropics. 



At .1 meeting of the Permanent Committee of this 

 [nstitute in Rome during December, the principal 

 business done was the consideration ofcertain proposals 

 by the Delegate for France in connex- 

 1pi.ii presented at 

 a previous meeting by the Delegate for Great Britain 

 and Inland on the Third International Congress "t 

 Tropica] Agriculture. The Journal of the Board of 

 Agriculture (England), for Februarj L 91 5, states thai 

 the report ol the British delegate had pointed oul that 

 in some tropical countries there appeared to be an 

 impression that the International Institute confined its 



attention i ilosely to the interesl ol agriculture in 



temperate regions, and did nol paj sufficienl regard to 

 tropica] agriculture. 



After some discussion the committee unanimously 

 passed a resolution to the effeel that the institute will 

 address all countries with a \ iew to informing them of the 

 obligations of the [nstitute towards tropical agriculture. 

 It was resolved also that the Institute should put itself 

 into communication with the International Association 

 with a view to aiding and carrying out the resolutions 

 passed by the International Congresses of Tropical 

 Agriculture, and especially by the Congress of last year. 

 The staff of the Institute was also instructed to study, 

 still more thoroughly than hitherto, questions connected 

 with colonial and tropical agriculture, to reserve for 

 such questions a still larger portion of the bulletins, and 

 to invite the interested Governments to transmit to the 

 Institute fuller information on these subjects. 



It is likely that the above resolution will result in 

 the, appearance of original articles in the Monthly 

 Bulletin of Agricultural Intelligence and Plant 

 Diseases concerning tropical agriculture. Hitherto 

 these have dealt almost entirely with questions relating 

 to temperate agriculture. With the exception of the 

 attention given to India and Egypt, the same may be 

 said of the Monthly Bulletin of Economic and Social 

 Intelligence, which also we hope will now give more 

 attention to tropical affairs. 



Information Concerning Corn and the Lima 

 Bean. 



The question of the advisability for many reasons 

 of paying more attention to the cultivation of food 

 crops in the West Indies is one which has been 

 brought prominently forward in the last few months, 

 as the many articles on the subject which have 

 appeared from time to time in the Agricultural News 

 testify. In connexion with this subject two circulars 

 have been recently issued with the object of drawing 

 attention locally to the crops in question. The one 

 of these, whirh deals with the cultivation of thi 

 Lima beau (Pha8eolv,8 lunatus), is a circular issued 

 by the Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture, for 

 distribution, through the various local Departments ol 

 Agriculture, to planters interested in the matter. 

 This bean, most commonl) known in the West Indies 

 as 'White bean i largely cultivated in ( !alifornia, 

 and it might probablj form a profitable crop 

 in these islands. Bill as tin circular points out, 



