A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. XV. No. 373. 



BARBADOS, AUGUST 12, 1916. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Page. 



Banana, Useful Facts Con- 

 cerning 



Cotton Exiiorts from the 

 West Indies 



Cuba, Machine Ploughing 

 in 



Different Cane Varieties 



in Denierara, Returns 



from 



Exports from Dominica, 

 1915 



Fisli, Plants that Stupefy 



Gleanings 



Gum and Pectin in 

 Filter-Press Cake, Esti- 

 mation of 



Insect Notes: — 



Attempts at the Control 



of Plant Bugs 



Native Food Plants of 



the Cotton Stainer in 



St. Vincent 



Items of Local Interest ... 



Market Reports 



Notes and Comments ... 



Oils, Essential, Simple 

 Stills for 



C)nion Seed for the Lee- 

 ward Islands 



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Papers at the Cotton Con- 

 ference 



Pen Manure, Manufacture 



and Storage of 



Pigs, Breeding and Feed- 

 ing for Bacon Fac 



tory Purposes 



Plant Diseases: — 



A New Cane Disease in 



Porto Rici 



Tlie Absence of Citrus 

 Canker from Porto 



Rico 



Potash Industry of the 



United States of Amori ca 



in 19] 5, Developments 



in 



(Quarantine, and the Intro- 

 duction of New A'arieties 

 of Sugar-cane into the 

 United States ... 

 St. Kitts, Fixed Standard 



of Purity for Milk in.. 

 •Sea Island Cotton Market 

 Trade Products of the 



British Empire 



Virgin Lslands, Work at 



the Experiment Station 



Vomiting Sickness 



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 265 



Trade Products of the British Empire. 



Important steps have been taken since 

 the outbreak of war, two years ago, towards 



»the promotion of inter-Imperial trade, the 

 objects being to strengthen the economic independence 

 of the Empire, and permanently to arrest e.xploitation 

 by enemy countries. 



Of special interest in connexion with this move- 

 ment is the annual publication of the London Chamber 

 of Commerce, entitled 'Trade Products of the British 

 Empire', which is a statistical account of the resources 

 of the British Empire as a i^upplier of foodstuffs and of 

 raw materials for British industries, as well as being 

 an account of foreign sources of supply. 



During the last few months certain products have 

 become especially prominent in connexion with discus- 

 sions which have taken place with a view to safeguarding 

 Imperial trade interests. The publication under con- 

 sideration directs attention, in this connexion, to the 

 case of metals, oil seeds, and sugar. Arrangements have 

 been completed whereby the zinc production of 

 Australia shall in future be under British control, 

 instead of being exploited by Germany. With regard 

 to oil seeds, an export duty of £2 per ton is to be 

 imposed on palm kernels shipped from the British 

 West African colonies, unless the oil is to be extracted 

 within the Empire. By this means it is intended 

 that the palm kernel crushing industry, which was 

 formerly almost a monopoly of Germany, shall be 

 retained after the war by Great Britain or other coun- 

 tries of the Empire. 



In regard to sugar, the means whereby the Empire's 

 independence of German beet are to be secured have 

 not yet been definitely formulated, but the matter is 

 engaging the active attention of the Government. 

 From the statistics given it would appear that, before 

 the war Great Britain was dependent upon foreign 

 countries for 90 per cent, of its sugar; since the war, 

 that is during lyU^, .this figure has fallen to 80 

 per cent., which from the point of view of inter-Imperial 

 trade does not indicate a very marked improvement 

 in the situation. The chief difference is that now, 



