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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



March i' 



1916. 



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EDITORIAL 



Head Office 









NOTICES. 



— Barbados. 



Letters and matter for publication, as well as all 

 ■epecimens for naming, should be addressed to the 

 ■Commissioner, Imperial Department of Agi'iculture, 

 Barbados. 



All applications for copies of the 'Agricultural 

 "News ' and other Departmental publications, should be 

 ■addressed to the Agents, and not to the Department. 



The complete list of Agents, and the subscription 

 and advertisement rates, will be found on page 3 of 

 "tihe cover. 



Imperial Commissioner of Francis Watts, C.M.G., D.Sc, 



.Agriculture for the West Indies F.I.C., F.C.S. 



SCIENTIFIC STAFF. 



W. R. Dunlop. 



H. A. Fiill.'ii, M.Sc. 



W. Nowell, D.I.C. 



■Scieidific Assistant and 



Assistant Editor 

 ^Entomologist 

 .Mycologist 



CLERICAL .STAFF. 



aiief Clerk A. G. Howell. 



Assistant Clerk M. B Coniiell. 



Junior Clerk W P. Bovell, 



Assistant Junior Clerk P. Taylor. 



Typist Miss B. Robinson. 



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.Assistants jor rubUcations - -r \ n ,.\;r\ 



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Vol. XV. SATURDAY, MARCH 2-5, 1916. Xo. .363. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Contents of Present Issue. 



The possibility of attracting e.-c-soldiers as settlers 



to the West Indies after the 

 editorial in this number. 



war is discussed in the 



On page 100 there are two "interesting articles on 

 the budding of cacao in Trinidad, and on the fermen- 

 tation of cacao and coffee. 



On page 101 s(jme account is given of oriental 

 beans not commonly grown in other places. 



Insect Notes refer to a butterHy which has been 

 found very injurious to coco-nut palms in British 

 Guiana. Under Plant Diseases will be found an 

 interesting account of some new fungi, parasitic on 



insects in St. Vincent. 



New Publications s&f the Imperial Department 

 of Agriculture. 



Three new pamphilets have recently been issued by 

 this Department. Of these, 'Indoor Gardening for 

 Schools,' by 1 )r. Watts, the Imperial Commissioner, has 

 already been reviewed in the last number of this 

 journal. 



The two other pamphlets deal with matters con- 

 nected with St. Lucia. (Jne of them is a new and 

 enlai'ged edition, brought up to date, of 'Hints to 

 Settlers in St. Lucia', by Edward J. Cameron, Esij., 

 C M.G., formerly Adntinistrator of that island. To this 

 is appended a cop\' of recent additional crown land 

 regulations passed by the Government, in which the 

 conditions are set firth umler which the Government 

 is prepared to sell crown lands in St. Lucia, of not less 

 than 100 acres in extent, for the settlement of persons 

 who have lately served in His ilajesty's forces, or who 

 come from outside the Colony. The facilities granted 

 to such settlers would seem to offer inducements to 

 many desirable settlers in the near future, and to open 

 up for St Lucia a prospect of great development. 



The second of the pamphlets dealing with 

 St. Lucia is on 'Agricultural and Economic Resources 

 of St. Lucia', by ^Ir. A. .J. Brooks, the Agricultural 

 Superintendent there. Mr. Brooks' experience and 

 knowledge of St. Lucia are a guarantee of the accuracy 

 of the information conveyed in the pamphlet. It is 

 worth noting that this pamphlet is being published by 

 instalments in the Wed India Committee Circular. 



Besides these three pamphlets, the Department 

 is just about to issue two of the annual reports, viz. 

 Report on the Botanic and Experiment Stations, 

 Antigua, 1914-1.5, and Report on Sugar-cane Experi- 

 ments in the Leeward Islands, 1914-1.5. 



The new number of the West Indian Bulletin 

 will also soon be published, the contents of which will 

 be found noted on the cover of this journal. 



Sugar Factory Development in India. 



From the International Sugar Journal, Febru- 

 ary 191(1, we notice that another step in the recent 

 development of the sugar indnstiy in India has been 

 taken by the erection of a most modern white sugar 

 factory in the Gorakhpur district. The factory has 

 a capacity of about 400 tons of cane per twenty-four 

 hours. There are two 30 inch x (iO inch mills with 

 a crusher, and cane and megass carriers, room being 

 left for an additional mill later. The boilers are four 

 in number, of the multitubular type, fitted with wet 

 megass furnaces 'ITie triple effect has a heating 

 surface of 4,300 square feet, and thi;re are two vacuum 

 pans each of 2,(550 gallons strike capacity. There are 

 seven crystallization ' tanks, and thirteen centrifugals 

 arranged for three stage curing. 



A modern sugar drier of the hot air type, and 

 a sugar crushing plant have also been supplied. In 

 the arrangement of the factory great importance has 

 been attached to spaciousness around the machinery, 

 and to the elimination, as much as possible, of hidden 

 inaccessible spaces, which are opposed to good control. 



