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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



M \\ 8, 1915. 



EDITORIAL t; NOTICES. 



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Barbados. 



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 specimens for naming, should be addressed to the 

 < [i perial Deparl ment of Agi 



ados. 



All applications for copies of the ' Agricultural 



News' and other Departmental publications, should I" 



Iressed to the Agents, and Dot to the Department. 



The complete list of Agents, and the subscriptioi 

 and advertisement rates, will be. found <>n page :i of 

 thi- cover. 



Imj of t i aneis W atts, C.M.G., D.Sc. 



thi West Indies V. [.< '., F.C.S. 



SI ll \ ill h SI IFF. 



Assistant I' • 

 Entomolo : 



\V. I!. Dual..],. 



II. A. Ballou, M.Si 

 \V. Nowell, D.I.< 



I I I Kli \1 -I AFF. 



A isistant ' 

 Jivnioi I'l: 1 1 

 Assistant Jura i I 

 Typist 



Assistants foi 1' 



A. G. Howell. 



M. B. Coimell. 



\V. P. Bovell. 



P. T. Taylor. 



Miss B. Robinson. 



i \. B. Prici . Fell. Journ. Inst. 



| I.. A. Corbin. 



Agricultural jfUirii 



V.. i.. XIV. >ATI'i:i>AY. MAY s. l'.»l -".. Xn. ::i(i 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Contents of Present Issue. 



The main idea put forward in the editorial in this 

 issue is the need for greatei investigation of the plant 

 above ground in relation to its environment with 

 a new to increasing the plant's efficiency as a builder 

 up of food mati rial. 



Under Fruit and Fruit Trees on pagi - 148 and I4H 

 are two - one dealing with the handling and 



transportatioi fruil and pine-apples; the se I 



dealing with the 3election of coco-nuts foi planting. 



Items oi >t conci rn on \\ ill be found 



on page I"' 11 in this issue. 



Ii,-, h Nob appi ar on pagi 154 deal w it h 



■ bod of I pea and 



on the cassa\ a stem bon r. 



A note a veet po il on 



153. 



Abnormal Rainfall during April 



After the severe drought experienced in March, 

 the weather in April underwent a sudden change and 

 in most of the islands very heavj ram- fell. 



[n St. Kilts lo inch,- > , orded in twenty- 



four ' r.d in one parish in Barbados I :> inches 



were reported to have fallen in a similar til 



The average April rainfall at the Office of the 

 Imperial Department'of Agriculture in Barbados for 

 the five yeai pi riod 1910 14 is L26 inches. The record 

 for April L915 is 5 89 or over U inches above thi 



i lonsiderab ■ difficulty was expi ri< no d in regard 

 to the shipnn in ol carg ; to the hi ai \ rail 



the rough seas to the leeward' of the islands o 

 K\ i he sout hernly \\ inds. 



The weather as might be exp i ivas extremely 

 hot for the time of year and south winds were prevalent 

 for several weeks. In some of the islands the weather 

 lias been harmful to the sugai crop, interfering 

 with the harvesting and grinding ofthe crop. The 

 past month is one of the few if not in many islands the 

 only wet April on record. 



It is possible that this unseasonable weather may 

 be indicative of abnormalities in the coming hurricane 

 months. 



Report on the Antigua Agricultural and Com- 

 mercial Society, 1914. 



A Report on the work of the Antigua Agricul- 

 tural and Commercial Society for the year IH14 is 

 published in the Antigua Sun for March is, L915. 

 From this the following particulars of interest are 

 gathered. During the year fifteen general meetings 

 and thirteen committee meet ings were held, the average 

 attendance at the general meetings numbering 22. and 

 no meeting has been dropped for wan! of a quorum. At 

 these meetings papers on matters affecting the agricul- 

 tural industries of the Colony were read and discussed, 

 among them being 'Boll dropping of Cotton', bj 

 Dr. Tempany and Mr. Jackson, 'Areas under different 

 varieties ofCane in Antigua', also In Dr. Tempany, 

 and 'Vegetable growing for Northern Markets', bj 

 Mr. -lack-. m. 



The erection oi an establishment for the kiln- 

 drj ing of Indian corn is recorded, and mention made of 

 the efforts of His Excellency the Governor and the 

 Imperial Department of Agriculture to show that 

 industry can be made a commercial success. Refereno 

 is also made to the special efforts oi Dr. Tempani and 

 Mr. Jackson in the work of the Antigua Onion 

 Growers' Association; also to the keen interest winch 

 His Excellency lakes in the Society , as is evidenced bj 

 his attendance at the Society - meetings. The 

 Government and the Agricultural Department find the 

 Society a useful body, and 'the Society s meetings are 



c ground when Government Agricultural 



Department, and members i i together and discuss 



matters for the good ofthe community at large always 

 w ith freedom always with good temp r. 



