A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. VIII. No. 195. 



BARBADOS, OCTOBER 16, 1909. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



British Ciitton Growing 



A.ssociatiiMi 333 



Camphor, Experiments 



witli in Jamaica ... 328 



Correction 328 



Cottoa in Rhodesia 328 



Cotton Notes : — 



Breeding of Cotton in 



the United States ... 320 

 Export of Cotton from 



Antigna 326 



West Indian Cotton ...326 

 Departmental Reports : — 

 Antigua, Botanic Sta- 

 tion, etc 3.34 



Grenada, Botanic Sta- 

 tion, etc 3134 



Eel-worms, How spread ... 327 



Fungu.s Notes : — 



Minute Forms of Life in 



the Soil 331 



Gleanings 332 



Green Manure and Fibre 



Plant 331 



Grenada, Science in the 



Primary Schools ... 328 

 Imj)erial Institute, The ... 321 



Page. 



Insect Nntes : — 

 Cottim Stainers 



Lemoni )il, Manufacture of 



Market Reports 



New Plants in the I'nited 

 States 



Nitrate of Lime, Blanufac- 

 tureof 



Notes and Comments ... 



Pine-ajiple, Soil Reipiire- 

 ments of 



Poultry Notes :— 

 Detennination of Cause 

 of Death in Fowls ... 



Prize-In 'Idings Competi- 

 tions in Grenada 



Rice in British (luiana ... 



Rul)ber in Nigeria 



Rubber. Residual in Tap- 

 ped Trees 



Soils, Transference of Salts 

 in 



Students' Corner 



Sugar-cane, Underground 

 Stem of 



Sugar Industry : — 

 Cane Variety E.xperi- 

 ments in Antigua . 



330 

 324 

 ■S.\ti 



329 



32.5 

 328 



324 



335 



329 

 335 

 335 



327 



329 

 333 



329 



. 323 



The Imperial Institute. 



^ HE increased interest in the colonial and 

 '^'"''^ other possessions of England, and the 

 v^3?ife^i% recognition of their importance as sources 

 of commodities which could not be produced in that 

 country have made a great difference in the way in 

 which those possessions are regarded by the Mother 

 Country. This change of attitude has taken place 

 most quickly during the last twent}' years, and the 

 erection of the Imperial Institute at South Kensing- 

 ton, as the National Memorial of the Jubilee of Queen 

 Victoria, was its direct outcome. Opened in May 1893, 



this institution has quickly increased in importance 

 and usefulness until the present time. 



An appreciation of the intimate connexion between 

 the work of the Imperial Institute and the progress of 

 the English possessions will be gained when its object 

 is considered. This is stated in the Report of the 

 WiirJ: of tlie Imperial Institute, 1908*, to be 'to 

 promote the utilization of the commercial and indus- 

 trial resources of the Empire by arranging comprehen- 

 sive E.'chibitions of natural products, especially of the 

 Colonies and India, and providing for their investiga- 

 tion and for the collection and dissemination of 

 scientific, technical and commercial information relat- 

 ing to them '. Thus the provision of the best, 

 unbiased scientific research and advice is made, for the 

 special purpose of the advancement of commerce. 



This work must naturally be passive as well as 

 active. That is to say there must be the provision of 

 both literary and e.xamplary records, as well as of advice 

 and the results of investigations which are designed for 

 a direct commercial application. The former of these 

 exists in the valuable Colonial and Indian Collections, 

 by which raw materials and primary manufactures are 

 displayed for public examination; and in the Reference 

 Library, which provides works of reference relating to 

 the Colonies and India, with such periodicals and 

 newspapers as are likely to be required by those using 

 it. The latter is provided in the Scientific and 

 Technical Department, which includes a special staff 

 and research laboratories; in the Bulletin of the 

 Imperial In^fltute, which is described in the report 

 already referred to as ' a quarterly publication contain- 

 ing a record of tlie work of the Imperial Institute, 

 in its various branches, as well as special articles 

 on subjects connected with the industrial utilization of 



* Colonial Reports — Annual, Noi 601. 



