A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



L1BR> 

 NEW Y 

 BOTANI 



QARO 



Vol. VIII. No. 197. 



BARBADOS, NOVEMBER l.:i, 1909. 



Price Id, 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Agriculture at the Briti.sli 



Association 354 



Agricultural Instruction in 



California •"^•il 



Air, Rlanufacture of 



Nitrates from ."iOl 



Books, Preserving in the 



Tropics 3()7 



Cacao, Manurial Experi- 

 ments in Gren.ada ... 3.56 

 Ceara Ruliber Seeds, Ger- 

 mination of 359 



Cotton Notes : — 



Areaof Cotton in .Antigua 359 

 Cotton Exports from tlie 



West Indie.s 358 



Cotton in Barbados ... 359 

 West Indian Cotton ... 3.T>8 

 World's Cotton Supply 358 



Department News 357 



Departmental Reports : — 

 St. Vincent, Botanic 



Station, etc 306 



Tortola, Botanic Sta- 

 tion, etc 366 



Exhibits, West Indian, in 



Canada 361 



Gleaning.s 304 



Gypsum, Manurial Value of 360 



Page. 



362 



361 



368 

 36) 

 367 



361 



3<i3 

 365 



Insect Notes : — 



N.itural History of 



Insects, Part II ... 

 Blanuring, Relationship to 



Meat Production 



Maiket Reports 



Notes and Comments ... 

 Rice in British Guiana ... 

 Rulil)er Trees, Times for 



Tapping . 



Simtliiidea caiiUKdinliit'i, 



Seeding of 3.55 



Spices of the Tro])ics 



Students' Corner ... 



Sutj.ir Industry : — 



Fermentation of 



Hawaiian Molasses ... 355 

 Sugar Manufacture in 



St. Croix 355 



Sug.ar Scums, Extraction 'of 



Wax from 3(;0 



Tillage, Implemental, in 



Kgypt ■■ 360 



Tiuilier, Relation of Saw- 

 ing and Use of to Rots 357 

 Wild Ipecacuanha and 



Stock 363 



Workers in Science and the 



Practical Farmer ... 359 



AirricuUiiro at the Recent British 

 Association Meeting. 



jiff' T the recent meeting of the British Associa- 



(Aj/_^ T^'' tion for the Advancement of Science, held 

 ^L^A^at Winnipeg, the opening address in the 

 sub-section Agriculture of Section K, Botany, was 

 given by the Chairman, Majnr P. G. Craigie, C.B., 

 F.S.S. This was commenced by a presentation of the 

 claims of Agricidtural Science to the grant of a division 

 to itself among the sections of the Association, instead 



of its being, as is the case at present, included under 

 Botany as a sub-section. The chief points in the 

 address form the subject-matter of what follows. 



Although agriculturists may have been tardy in 

 taking advantage of the teachings of men of science, 

 they are in earnest now in their applications for 

 instruction. Again, the appeals which agriculture 

 makes to other sciences for aid in the solution of 

 its problems are so many and varied, that it cannot 

 be classed as a subsidiary section of any one of 

 them. The mathematician and physicist can formu- 

 late rules which must be followed, if successf'jl results 

 are to be obt-iined ; and can supply meteorological 

 information which will be a guide to the future 

 condr.ct of operations. The aids which are given by 

 the chemist are manifold, and not the least among 

 them is that of affording information as to the 

 different methods for the treatment of soils, in 

 order that these may be made to give their 

 best yields, both in quality and quantity. The 

 geologist is called upon to give the benefit of his 

 knowledge of the contents and capacities of the soil 

 itself. Both the production and care of those anirnais 

 which are useful, and the methods for the destruction 

 of such of them as are inimical come under the 

 attention of the zoologist. Those who have studied 

 geography, in its widest sense, will be approached by 

 the agricultuiist when he wishes to know about the 

 distribution of crops which already exist and the 

 regions which are awaiting agricultural development. 

 The economist can give information which may be 

 used to prevent over-production and, for the same 

 purpose, to enable new markets to be found. The 

 tendency for the engineer to be called in to aid the 

 agriculturist has become rapidly greater, not only for 



