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A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. XIII. No. 330. 



BARBADOS, DECEMBEE 30, 1914. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Agi'icullunil Dopai'tinents 

 and New Developinent.-; 399 



Corn, Guinea, Red 403 



Cottiiii Notes: — 



Ci'nsiderations AS'ect- 

 ing the Cotton In- 

 diKstiy in tlie West 



Indies 404 



West Indian Cotton ...404 



Paoe. 



Epizootic Lymphangitis ... 413 

 Fowls, Domestic, Oriijin of 409 



Fungus Notes: — 



Summary of Infiaiuation 

 Concerning Pl.-uit Dis- 

 eases in 1914 412 



Gleanings 410 



Horses, Treatment of 



Fistula in 413 



Indian Corn 40.") 



Insect Ni>tes: — 



Summary of Entomo- 

 logical Information 



durhigl914 408 



Items of Local Interest ... 403 



Market Reports 414 



Mauritius Department of 



Agriculture 407 



Notes and Connuents ... 40<i 

 Publications of the Impe- 

 rial Department of 



Agriculture 40<> 



Rahbits 407 



Personal Notes 406 



Students' Corner 411 



Sugar Industry-: — 



The i^)ueensland Sugar 



Factory System ... 401 



Sugar Standards, Dutch 407 



Vanilla, Cultivation of ... 402 



Weeds, Sulphuric Acid for 



Destruction of 411 



Agricultural Departments and New 

 Developments. 



!T the present time when ecouoaiic eondi- 

 j^tions are greatly disturbed, much is being 

 {written about agricultural prospects in 

 cotine.\ion with the changes occurring, or likely to 

 occur, in the production and marketing of staple crops, 

 the increase in development of certain ininor crops, and 

 tlie neeessity for particular attention to increased pro- 

 duction of food crops. In the West Indies the upset 

 is somewhat in evidence, the markets for at least two 

 crops, cotton and sugar, being particularly atifected by 



the disturbed conditions. The effect on cotton arises 

 from the inability to manufacture the raw material into 

 the finished products, coupled with the lack of demand 

 for them; while the market for cane sugar promises to 

 become more active than seemed likely a short time 

 ago. The depression of the cottcn market is partially 

 off-set b}- a stimulus to sugar production, but the 

 principal cotton centres and the principal sugar areas 

 do not coincide, and consequently the resulting problem 

 becomes more complex. The increase in sugar-cane 

 cultivation will utilize certain lands formerly in cotton, 

 and perhaps will also displace small areas of potatoes 

 corn and other foods; while, on the other hand, there are 

 considerable areas which for several years have been 

 devoted entirely, or almost entirely, to cotton cultiva- 

 tion, for which profitable crops are desired for cultivation 

 during the next few years. The consideration of the 

 problems thus raised leads to contemplation as to whence 

 the stimulus is to be deri\ed for the inception of trials 

 of new crops, and at the same time it may be asked, 

 what part does official agriculture plaj' in a crisis 

 such as this? 



The expression official agriculture may be made to 

 include all the efforts of the Departments of Agricul- 

 ture through the medium of Botanic Gardens and 

 Experiment Stations, and the instructional work of 

 their officers. In most colonies the work in agriculture 

 each year is recorded in an annual report of Botanic 

 Station or Experiment Station or both. The Agricultu 

 ral Newa publishes articles dealing with this work and 

 with that carried on in different parts of the world, 

 so that by reference to such recorded information, 

 planters and others may easily put themselves in 

 possession of facts which should be of the utmost value 

 in deciding what course to adopt at a time when trials 

 of new crops are tube made. In this connexion the 



