r 



ih^//.. 



A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. XV. No. 36-5. 



BARBADOS, APRIL 22, 1916. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



142 



Ajowan Plant in the West. Notes and Comments ... 



Indies 13(JPlant Diseases : — 



Bookshelf 141 Later Experience with 



Ceylon, New Schiiol'-f the Citrus Canker in 



Tropical Agriculture ... ll?(i Florida 



Cotton, Sea Island. Ex- 

 ports from the West 



Indies 



Cotton Conference: — 



Second Day's Proceed- 

 ings 



Cover Croji. A New 



Enfleurage System of Scent 



Extraction 



Gleanings 



Insect Notes: — 



Fighting the Sugar-cane 

 Borer with Parasites 

 and Poisons 



f^li'gs ••■ 



Items of Local Interest ... 132 



Market Reports 144 



Milk, Dominica, Composi- Teachers' Salarie . 137 



tion of 139jTrade and Agriculture of 



Motor Plough for Light Zanzil)ar, 1914 137 



Work 142 West Indian Products ... 143) 



this produces ;i mental picture of things difficult, 

 abstruse, and possibly nnatti-active, and it is felt that a 

 strenuous effort will be necessary to induce the mass of 

 men to turn their attention to the things, which while 

 urgently needed, are more or less repellant. 



Page. 



.. 13(; 



St. Lucia, Opening Address 

 -,.j.,| to Legislative Council 143 

 ''■ Science and Industry, Com- 



1 monwealtli Institute of 139 

 ....IScience. The Simplicity of 129 

 I^T'Sea Island Cotton Market 13:? 



ISugar Industiy: — 

 1371 Britisli Sugar Consump- 

 tion 



Influence of the War on 

 the Sugar Industry 



Motor Implements in 

 Mauritius and Cuba... 



1 'se of Nitrogenous Man- 

 ures for Cane in Louis- 

 iana 



.. 140 



13S 

 138 



131 

 131 

 131 



... 131 



The Simplicity of Science. 



HE stress arising from carrying on the 

 greatest war of all time has revealed features 



^_ ^ both of strength and weakness in the British 



national character and habits: it has most prominently 

 revealed astounding want of knowledge and apprecia- 

 tion of what is commonly referred to as science; and, 

 in consequence, strenuous efforts are being made to 

 remedy so grave an evil. Men's minds are thus directed 

 by stirring utterances in the Press, and by the formation 

 and action of energetic committees and associations, to 

 a consideration of science and what it implies: usually 



A little consideration will show that our very 

 ignorance of what science really is, is creating the 

 barriers and difficulties that retard our progress along a 

 line so absolutely essential to the national well-being. 

 Science is not necessarily abstruse, it is not necessarily 

 unattractive: it is quite otherwise: it is, over very wide 

 ranges, ijuite easy and wonderfully interesting. 



Science, as Huxley tried to impress upon us many 

 years ago, is merely organized common-sense. There^is 

 no difference in the character of knowledge generally 

 acquired and that acquired in the study of science, 

 except that in the acquirement of general knowledge 

 there is commonly little effort at arranging the acquired 

 information in any definite order for future use. 

 Arrange the information in any way that will make it 

 useful on future occasions, and it becomes scientific. 

 When we speak then of the necessity of being more 

 scientific, we only mean that we should be more 

 orderly in our methods of thinking. 



The first step in our ordeily thinking is to look 

 with intelligence on the things with which we daily 

 come in contact, and to arrange our thoughts in an 

 orderly way about them It surely is an obvious and 

 trite thing to say that we should be reasonably 

 informed concerning the things and phenomena which 

 we encounter i:i our daily life. To acquire that 

 information is to study natural science: to label this 

 effort 'the study of natural science' is to run the risk 

 of making it .seem difficult, and to take the first step 

 in making it repellant. 



