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May 118, 1910. 



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Vol. IX. SATUllDAY. MAY 28. 1910. No. 211. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Contents of Present Issue. 



The editorial in this number treats of the fungi in 

 a broad and general way. It serves to bring together 

 the different aspects in which the fungi may be 

 regarded. 



The abstract of the bulletin issued recently by the 

 Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, dealing with the 

 effect of the structure of sugar-cane on mill work, which 

 was commenced in the last issue, is concluded on pages 

 162 and 163 of this number. 



An interesting article on lemon cultivation, as it 

 is carried out in Italy, is given on page 164. 



Special attention is drawn to the articles relating 

 to cotton, on pages 166 and 167. 



The Insect Notes, which appear on page 170, deal 

 with the black scale {Lecanium nigrum) and its 

 parasite {Z(d<ipli.othrixhnirum), 



An account of sotne useful trees is given on page 



171. 



Part VII of the \series of articles on The Chief 

 Groups of Fungi is presented on pages 174 and 17.5. 

 In this, the Fungi Imperfecti are considered. It should 

 be mentioned that Figs. 29 and 30 are after Griffon 

 and Maublanc, Fig. 31 after van Hall and Fig. 32 after 

 Massee. 



Publications of the Imperial Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



Volume X of the West Indian Bulletin is now 

 being completed by the issue of the fourth number. 

 I'his opens with a full account of the proceedings at the 

 Agricultural Conference held in Antigua in January of 

 this year, which contains the papers read at that con- 

 ference, namely. Five Years' Workins: of the Antigua 

 Sugar Factory, by L. I. Henzell: Muscovado Sugar- 

 Making by Steam Boiling, by A. St. G. Spooner; Imple- 

 mental Cultivation, by G. Moody Stuart; and Systems 

 of Agricultural Education, by Dr. F. Watts, C.M.G. 



This account is succeeded by the following articles: 

 Notes on Some Cacaos at the Dominica Botanic Station, 

 by Joseph Jones; The Root Disease of Sugar-cane in 

 Antigua, by H. A. Tempany, B.Sc; The Root Disease 

 of Sugar-cane in Barbados, compiled from information 

 received from J. R. Bovell, I.S.O.; and Disinfection of 

 Imported Plants, by H. A. Ballou, ^I.Sc. 



The first article, namely that dealing with certain 

 cacaos growing at the Dominica Botanic Station, is 

 illustrated by means of two plates showing plants of 

 Alligator cacao {Theohroma jyentagona), Tiger cacao 

 {T. hicolor) and Monkey cacao {T. angustifoUa) and 

 pods of the two first-named species. The article on the 

 disinfection of imported plants contains useful summar- 

 ies of information respecting legislation in connexion 

 with this in the West Indies, and of the methods of 

 disinfection that should be employed for the different 

 ways and forms in which plants are imported. 



With this number of the West Indian Bulletin, 

 the index, title page and table of contents of Volume X 

 are included, so that the separate parts of this may 

 now be bound together. 



Bonuses to Labourers for Permanent Service. 



The Antigua Sugar Factory Company has recently 

 devised a scheme by which bonuses are to be paid as 

 a reward for permanent and faithful service, to labourers 

 in its employment. These are of two kinds, 'cash 

 bonuses' and 'retirement bonuses', and to qualify for 

 them, a labourer working for the company must have 

 been in its service continuously and without a break 

 for two years, and have performed his duties in 

 a satisfactory manner; he is then regarded as a ' perma- 

 nent worker', and his name is enrolled on a list kept 

 by the company and called the 'list of permanent 

 workers ', to be kept there as long as he remains in its 

 service and works satisfactorily. There are placed to 

 the credit of every such permanent worker: (1) the 

 cash bonus, which is a sum equal to 2i per cent, on his 

 earnings during the year previous to his enrolment: (2) 

 the retirement bonus, bearing interest in the same way. 

 The former of these may be drawn out or left with the 

 company, which pays o per cent, on it; the latter can 

 only be drawn on satisfactory retirement, or at death. 



The bonuses are purely of the nature of a gift, and 

 the scheme cm be terminated by the company at three 

 months' notice» 



