A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



OARDEIN. 



Vol. VIII. No. isO. 



BARBADOS, MARCH 20, 1909. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Agricultuial Bank at 



St. Viiicfut 



AgiR-ultHra! Tniining for 



British (iiiiaiwi Buys 

 Balata (lutimt in British 



(4uiana 



tVicoa-nnt Planting at 



Antigua 



t'cicoa-nut I'hmting in 



Hawaii 



Cover Cri>lis rrrsiis Clean 



Weeding in Pevnianent 



Cultivatinu 



Department Pnlilieaticms ... 



Department News 



Ecanda Root Rubber 



Gleanings 



(irenada. Agricultural 



l'r( igress at 



In.sect Notes : — 



Fruit Fly at Bermuda ... 

 Scide Insects at Jamaica 



Lima Beans 



Mangosteuu at Dominica ... 



Market Reports 



Notes and Coiaments 



Panama, Encouragement 

 for Agriculture in 



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Pen Manure and Allied 

 Maiuu'es 



Rice. Limes, and Sis.a! He 

 in British (iuiana 



Rubber .it Grenada ... 



St. Kitt's, Agricultural 



Show at 



Students' Corner : — 



Agricultiu-alExauiin.-itions 

 Sugar-cane Importation 

 and IntroiUiction of 



Plant Diseases 



Sugar Industry : — 

 Bourbon Cane, the Decay 



of 



New C.-ine Harve.ster ... 

 .Sugar Pruductioii in Cuba 

 Sweet Potatos, Good 



Varieties of 



Toggenberg Goat ' Bruce 



I'. S. Department of 



Agricidtiu'e 



Virgin Islands. Minor 



Cro]is in 



West Indian Cotton 



West Indian Products on 

 the London Market... 



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The United States Department 

 of Asricnlture. 



^^ N the editorial of the last issue, reference 



S was made to the excellent organization 

 and magnificent work of the United States 

 ^ Department of Agriculture. The following particulars 

 I may be of interest to readers of the Agricultu ml News 

 ^^ as forming a general account of that Department, in 

 ^ reference to its organization, and some of the lines of 

 ■si work which it carries oiit. 



The report of the Secretary, of Agricidture 



occupies 138 pages of the Year-hook of the United 

 States Department for 1907, and from that report the 

 following statements are chiefly taken. 



The total number of persons in the employ of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture at the close 

 of the fiscal year (June 30) 1907, was about 9,000, of 

 which number nearly 2,000 were in the District of 

 Columbia (i.e., Washington), while the remaining 7,000 

 Were stationed at other points. 



The appropriations of money for the work of the 

 Department in 1907 were S10,llf>,451 — without count- 

 ing the Weather Bureau, which received $1,439,240; 

 while in 1908 the grant allotted for Agriculture 

 increased to §12,210,156, in addition to which the 

 Weather Bureau received $1,413,-540, making a total 

 for 1907 of $11,557,691, and for 1908 of $13,623,696. 



The Secretary of Agriculture is at the head of the 

 Department, which is divided into Bureaus and 

 Divisions, each with its own chief and staff of workers. 

 Each Bureau has charge of the investigations of 

 correlated problems, or routine work connected with 

 technical or practical agriculture. The Secretary of 

 Agriculture is a Cabinet officer, and ' exercises personal 

 supervision over the public business relating to the 

 agricultural industry.' 



The Bureaus and Divisions of which this great 

 Department is composed number fifteen, each with its 

 own definite line of investigation, and within the limits 

 of each of these the more special problems are assigned 

 to officers particularly qualified for their duty. 



It will be realized that within the limits of 

 a brief article, it will be possible only to mention in the 

 briefest way a few of the sub-divisions of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and to indicate one or two of its 

 main lines of work. 



