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THE AGEICULTUEAL NEWS. 



August 1, 1914. 



COTTON, 



WEST INDIAN COTTON. 



Messrs. Wolsteiihulme and HdUanil, of Liverpool, 

 write as' follows, under date July IS, with reference to 

 the sales ot West Indian Sea Island cotton: — 



About 200 bales of West Indian Sea Island cotton have 

 been .sold since our last report. 



Spinners are indifterent buyers and jwices are generally 

 easier all roiuid. 



The .sales include St. Vincent \6d. to 19d., St. Kitts 

 and Anguilla IGhd. to 11 hd. and Barbados at lyrf. Quota- 

 tions reduced ^d. per ft. 



In their last Report, Messrs. Frost & Co. intim- 

 ated that during the .summer months their Report on 

 the AmericaiiSea Island cotton market would be issued 

 onlv uionthlv. 



Identification of Wild Cotton Plants in 



St. Vincent. — The Acting Agricultural Superintendent, 

 St. Vincent, has furnished this office with information con- 

 cerning certain wild forms of cotton recently taken to Kew by 

 Mr. W. X. Sands, Agricultural Superintendent, for identifica- 

 tion. A cotton found liy the Acting Agricultural Superin- 

 tendent growing wild on the cliffs by Point de Jour at 

 Canouan has been determined as Gossi/pium punct'itum, var. 

 Jamaica, Watt. The Carriacou Marie Galante has been 

 stated by the Kew authorities to be G. Peruvianum, C'av. or 

 a hybrid with that species. Other forms of cotton grown in 

 Union Island and termed respectively silk cotton ilarie 

 Galante and ordinary Marie Galante are found to be both 

 forms of G bnrhadense, Linn. As well as the above forms of 

 cotton, an aroid oljservod by ilr. Sands in St. A'inceut, and 

 mentioned by him in an article on vanilla cultivation in 

 St. Vincent pTd)lished in the A'/ricullural Keirf, Vol. XII, 

 No. 286, page 116, has been determined as Fhilodendron 

 giijanteum, Schott. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE IMPERIAL 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The recently issued publications of this depart- 

 ment include Vol. XIV, No. 2 of the West Indian 

 Bulletin containing several articles on West Indian 

 veterinary ijitesti(»ns and an especially important paper 

 which discusses the results of the Dominica cacao 

 manurial experiments over a period of ten years. There 

 has also recently been issued the 1914 edition of the 

 West Indies in Canada, references to which will be 

 found in other places in this issue of the AcjricidturaL 

 Mews. 



Passing through the press are two pamphlets, one on 

 cotton cidtivation in the West Indies, anfl an(jther on 

 insect pests of sugar-cane in the Leeward Islands. The 

 former pid^lication will constitute a very comprehensive 

 pamphlet and will include most of the information in 

 the old edition fully revised and gi'eatly t'.xtended on 

 the basis of recent knowledge. 



A convenient leafiet can now be obtained from the 

 Agents of this Department which gives a complete list 

 of the publications on sale, which include the West 

 Indian Bidtetin, the Pamphlet Serie-s, the Annual 

 Reports of the Local Departments of Agriculture, and 

 the Agricu.ltu,ru.l News. 



PROGRESS REPORT OX THE AGRICULTURAL 

 DEHARTMENT, GRENADA, FOR THE QUARTER 

 OCTOBER TO DECEMBER, 1U13. 



Eecent changes in the staff of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment, Grenada, make it desirable to put on record in this 

 journal, before the appearance of the usual annual report, the 

 principal points dealt with in this quarterly report issued 

 liy the Grenada Department last January. 



In the publication under review, the Superintendent of 

 Agriculture draws attention to the satisfactory condition of 

 the lime crop, and to its suitability to Grenada conditions. 

 In Carriacou, the area luider limes will be extended, and 

 already orders for some 5,000 plants have been placed with 

 the Department for 1914. In Grenada, the fruits yielded by 

 the small plot at ilorne Eouge are of excellent size and 

 (ptality, and scale insect attacks, whilst always present, have 

 not been a serious obstacle. Caittious trials with limes on 

 the unoccupied lands of the island are recommended. 



During the season under review there appeared to have 

 lieen a marked increase of fungoid pod diseases of cacao, 

 which was apjjarently the outcome of seasonal peculiarities. 



In the laboratory, the work conducted during the period 

 was of a varied nature, and included the examination of such 

 diverse substances as sugars, manures, suspected base coins, 

 as well as articles lielieved to contain poison. It is indicated 

 in the report that in order to carry out this work .satis- 

 factorily, it will be necessary to increase the staff of the 

 Department. 



For the last year or two a systematic survey has been 

 made of Grenada soils, and as already pointed out in the 

 A'/ricnltural Xews, they may lie classed into the ashes and 

 gravel of the coastal districts and laval soils of the central 

 moimtaiiious parts. It is reniarkalile that on some of the 

 dry .soils, notal)ly in St. Patricks, pruning is more severely 

 carried out than in the wetter parts of the island. 



The position of the Land Settlements Scheme in Grenada is 

 shown in the report in the form of a table. At !Morne Eouge 

 there are thirty-six lots, twenty-six of which have been sold at 

 !Morne Rouge South; and at C'aliste there are twentj'-seven lott<, 

 twenty of \\hich have been sold: ^Vesterhall and Calivigny 

 contain 127, eighty-five of which have lieen purchased. In 

 addition to these areas there is a proposed new settlement at 

 the mountain lands at St. Cyr, which was ])urchased during the 

 quarter by the Government, and which contains about 350 

 acres, fertile and well watered. With a proper road system, 

 this area should gradually l)ecoine a prosperous settle- 

 ment of peasant agricidture, although it is not anticipated 

 that nuich else than cacao and sugar-cane will be grown there. 

 It was intended to open the settlement for occupation last 

 Jime, and it was expected to be the means of providing 100 

 families with land. 



As regards peasant instruction, the Agricultural Instruc- 

 tor has made an interesting trial with the pods of the jilant 

 Cassia Fistula. As the result of small shipments a good 

 ])rotit was made, even in face of the exceptionally heavy 

 charges to be expected in the case of small shipments. As an 



