A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 





IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. "^*^^ 



Vol. XV. No. Slo. 



BARBADOS, SEPTEMBER 9, 1916. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Agricultural Ci.>lleges, 



Farther Argument for.. .2811 



Agricultural Credit Soci- j 



eties in C'ejUin 296 



Caue Cultivatiiin, Exten- 

 sion of in Jamaica 21X) 



Chown Land, Development 



in British Guiana. 

 Cyclonic Weather in 



Virgin Islands 



Department News ... 



Fungus Notes: — 



th. 



2S>4 



■_'!t4 

 •i!l3 



the 



A New Fungus on 



Green Scale 



Gleanings 



firading liy Law in the 

 Philippines 



Granary, Antigua Govern- 

 ment, Report on tlie 

 working of, 1915 ... 



Grenada Prize Holding.s 

 Competition 



Home Projects in Agricul- 

 tural Education 



■Mi2 



21)2 

 2'M) 

 301 



Page. 



India, Progress of Agricul- 

 ture in 2it9 



Indigo Plant. Tobacco Fer- 

 tilizer from 2!t9 



Insect Notes: — 



A Wood-Boring Larva, 



The Control of 298 



Items of Local Interest ... 301 

 Lime Juice Factory, St. 



Lucia Government ... 2'.I4 

 Man-.ies, The, of Culia ... -JH: 



Market Reports ."104 



Notes and Comments ... 29(i 

 Plant Propagation and 



Instruction 302 



RuMier, The History of... 2!>2 

 Scientific Research and In- 

 dustrial Progress 2'.m; 



Sug.-ir Notes: — 



Extension of sugar-cane 



Cultivation in.Iamaiea 2'.I0 

 The Javan Sugar Crop, 



l!tl.5 2'.tl 



Tohacco, Growing Wrap- 

 per under Sliaile 293 



Further Argument for Agricultural Colleges. 



^N Volume I ot the Transactions of the 

 Third International Congress of Tropi- 

 cal Agriculture, held at the Imperial 

 Institute during June 1914, will be found the papers 

 that Were read on the subject of agricultural 

 education. Taken as a whole it cannot be said 

 that these communications lead us very much 



farther ahead, particular!}- in connexion with the 

 much-discussed question of tropical agricultural col- 

 leges. That these institutions are needed appears to 

 have been generally recognized at the Congress, but 

 no suggestions were made as to carrying the idea into 

 effect. The outbreak of war., a month later, naturally 

 had the effect of causing a complete cessation of public 

 interest in the matter, but during the past two 

 years, the extraordinary revelations which the war 

 has produced in regard to showing the national impor- 

 tance of science, has tended to revive public interest in 

 the matter, and there is every possibilitj- that this will 

 increase in the future. 



The relative importance to Great Britain of her 

 tropical possessions would appear to become greater 

 and greater the longer the war continues, and in this 

 fact would appear to lie one of the strongest arguments 

 for the immediate provision of better educational and re- 

 search facilities. In the case of cotton, we observe a veiy 

 ominous development of the spinning industry in the 

 I'nited States and the increasing home consumption of 

 the raw material produced in that country. It would 

 appear — and the matter has been openly admitted by 

 the British Cotton Growing Association — that Lanca- 

 shire's supply of cotton will have to depend more and 

 more upon production within the Empire, and this will 

 mean a very large extension of the cotton growing 

 areas. In order to compete with the home con- 

 sumption of raw cotton in the United States, this 

 British-grown cotton will have to be produced cheaply 

 especially in view of the further handicap of heavy 

 freight charges. 



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