230 



THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



•li l.v 1" 



1915. 





COTTON. 



WEST INDIAN COTTON. 



Messrs. Wolstenholme and Holland, of Liverpool 

 write as follows, under dates June L6 and 28, L915, 

 respi cl ively, with refen ace bo the sales of West Indian 

 Sea [sland col 



Sii ir last re] itf 160 bales of West Indian 



I land cotton have b en ild, including St. Vincent L6|rf. 



and St. Kitts [&/?.; the sales also include about 30 ba 



Stains at 6 



iur last report [June lf?j there has been no busi 



in-- ,i West Indian Sea Island cotton. 



COTTON EXPORTS FROM THE 



WEST INDIES. 



The following table gives the quantity and estimal d 

 value of Sea [sland cotton exported from the . iri us West 



Indian Colonics for the quarter ended March 31, 1915: — 



Total 



624,639, 



7, 1 18 



In addition to the above there was shipped from 

 Grenada 1 1. 1 is It'. Marie Galante cotton valued at I' 1 12. 



Unit Values of Food.— A not,- on the relative 

 of feeding -lull's in the Journal < tlu Roard of 



I . igland, for Ju I 9 I '■. I ul list 



in which the different feeding tiffs are arranged in oi 



i food unit. The follow, been 



vein ted from the list on th ■■ ill prove 



of interest to the West Indian reader: Soya bean cake, 



id "nit : COCO nut eake. If. 5 id unit; 



palm nut kernel e ;l ke. I.«. .">•/. per I' limit; decot I 



a cake, I -. 6rf. pei i I unit ; i ice i 1 ( Burmese), 



Is. 10J</.; maize (Argentine), 1 -■. lOJrf: maize (American), 

 [s. II ['A: beans, 2 1 1 tine), 2s. 10J</.; oats 



The Progress of Fiji - interesting I 



showing the progress and prospects of Fiji, were given in the 

 of the < Jovei nojj to the I ■ ■ ' ouncil si ime time 



ago, in which he stated that ■■ isl of tlie \ i 



Department had increased from £665 in I £6,244 



(estimated) in 1914. Referrui recommendation made 



address in I912,,.thal planters who have suitable land 



ifficient funds at their d should experiment in 



li ivation of linn h idustry 



of Dom i va! I in 19 1 2 at 



£97, 1 12, and that 1 1 >l land under lime culti i 



ivo onlj - : ai res, which ga approximati 



i| £30 per acre. < d of Ai 



Australia, and New Zealand, h forded ready m 



lor the sale of I, i , n, lime juice, citrate 



of liiu . ml ial "Us, so tha i manent char i 



the lime industry must commend il i ise agriculturists 



desire a safe investment f >r their capital and i I 

 afford to wait four or live year- until the first crop I 



e bl bered. >■' ui nal ■■ ■ \ of Arts, 



April 16, 1915.) 



Natural Mosquito Control.- The following le r 

 has been taken from the Journa loyal & 'Arts 



for April I 6 



With regard to the lation or, at all events, the 



discouragement - of mosquitoes, it may 1 f i 



state that at Honolulu, some years ago, the experiro ■ 

 growing of a species of /.- I) was tn< - ' 



surfaces of water, with a view to preventing female mosq 

 from gaining access to the watei foi purposes, of di po 

 1 understand thai the experiments wen- successful in demon- 

 strating the efficacy of the method. The duckweed I 



bee ■ io cl ely matted together on the surface of the 



and the roots beneath it, that it is virtually impossib 

 any insect to penetrate the skin thus formed. Not many 

 i igo 1 recollect seeing a mill dam on the ! i 



try, "f large extent, ibsolutely covered with a sp ■ 

 duckweed. So thick and firm i hin, that numbers of 



moor Inn- were walking about on the surface. 



THE DEVELOPMENT OF MONTSERTAT. 



An instructive article by Dr. Fran:is Watts, < .M1Q., 

 will he found in the current issue of the West Indian Bulletin^ 

 in which the writer gives a review of progress in the < 



iltural industries of the Presidency during the past ten 

 years. The article in question i utes a continuation of 



a previous one in the Bulletin (Vol. VII, pp. 1 15 . where 



iltural conditions and progress of the President} are 

 revii wed in detail up to the end of 1 90 1. 



An examination of the average annual value oi porta 

 for five-year periods, from 1870 to 191 I. brings out the point 

 that the first threi periods, namely, 1870 I 1875-9, and 

 1880 i iio» a fairly uniform value ol i sports of £32,000 to 

 £33,000. This may be I a dition 



of the island al a period v, ti was the principal crop, 



and ' indit io re isonably m rm •!. The next. , 

 namely L885-9, shows a con falling off in value, 



being only £23,542 a fall of 30 pei cent. This is a ounted 

 for by the difficulty experienced by I i industry, which 



:.: red a i ■.- dei 1 in value . beginning in 1 883. 



