A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THK 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



LIBRARY 



NEW YORK 



BOTANICAL. 



aARDEN. 



Vol. VIII. No. 196. 



BARBADOS, OCTOBER 30, 1909. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Agrifultund Exuininiilioiis M41 



Alciihdl from R;iniin:is ... 244 



Bacteria in Jamaica Soils, 



Useful 343 



' Butter Tree ' of Sierra 



Leone 345 



Cacao, M/uiui-iiig of ,. f... 340 



Canadian 'i'raJe Commis- 

 sion 337 



Copper Suljihate, Impuri- 



tiesin 339 



Cotton Notes : — 



Ex]iorts from West 



Indies 342 



Ginning and Selection 



in St. Vincent 342 



West Indian Cotton ... 342 



Departmental Reports : — 

 Jamaica, L)e]iartment of 



Agriculture 350 



St. Kitts, Botanic 

 Station, etc 350 



Destruction of Weeds by 



Insects 344 



P.VGE. 



Fungus Notes ; — 



Diseases of Ground Nuts 347 



Gleanings 348 



Good Milking Cow, (.,(uali- 



ties of 341 



Insect Notes : — 



Natural History of Insects, 

 I'art I 34G 



JamnitaRuMi 34.3 



Market Reports :'.b2 



Mistletoes of West Indies 345 

 Nitrification and Soil Condi- 



tious .345 



Notes and Comments ... 344 

 Oil Tractor for Implemeii- 



tal Tillage 338 



Propagation ef Eucalypti 345 

 Rul )ber in Federated 



Malay States 349 



Science in Primary Schools 



in Leeward Islands ... .339 



Students' Corner 349 



West Indian Products ... 351 



The Canadian Trade Commission. 



" '"3k5^'T will be remembered that a Conference 

 -I k^ relatiiipr to the Trade delations between the 

 ^.^^i^ West Indies and Cana(hi was held in Bar- 

 bados in January, 1908. On this occasion, meetings were 

 held between delegates from all parts of the West Indies 

 and the Canadian Representatives, Mr. W. G. Parmalee, 

 ISO., and Mr. A.E.Jones: IMr. E. H. S. Flood, the 

 newly appointed Canadian Trade Commissioner, was 

 also present. Among the resolutions that were finally 

 adopted at the Conference was the following: ' That in 

 the opinion of this Conference, the Governments of the 

 various West Indian Colonies, including British Guiana, 

 should, with the least possible delay, proceed to re- 



arrange their Customs Tariff, with a view to giving 

 a preference to the goods set out (in the schedule hereto 

 annexed) when such goods are the growth, produce, or 

 manufacture of any part of the British Empire.' The 

 purpose of this resolution was to enable each C(jiony 

 to take up a definite position in regard to the 

 matter by a.^sciiting to, or dissenting from, the 

 principle invjlved. By this and other resolutions 

 it was shown that the Conference was in favour 

 of an arrangement for mutual concessions between 

 Canada and the West Indies. 



In August of the present y;'ar, a Royal Commissiori 

 was appointed to enquire into trade relations between 

 Canada and the West Indies. The members of this 

 Commission are the Right Honourable Lord Balfour of 

 Btirleigh, K.T., the Honourable William Stevens 

 Fielding, Blinister of Finance, and the Honourable 

 William Paterson, Minister of Customs, in the Dominion 

 of Canada : Sir John Poynfler Dickson-Poynder, 

 D.S.O., M.P., and Sir Daniel Blorris, K.C.M.G., D.C.L., 

 D.Sc. In addition, Mr. H. R. Cowell, of the Colonial 

 Office, has been appointed Secretary to the Commission, 

 and Mr. R. H. JlcCarthy has been selected as its 

 technical adviser. 



The English members of the Commission left 

 Liverpool for Canada on September 11, and arrived at 

 Ottawa on September 20, where they were met by the 

 Canadian members. The session was opened at Ottawa 

 on September 22, by Lord Balfour of Burleigh, and the 

 Commission afterwards proceeded to Toronto, Montreal 

 Halifax and St. John. 



In opening the session at Ottaw-a, Lord Balfour of 

 Burleigh said that he could conceive nothing which 

 would be more protective of the good of the Empire 



