A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



MBit 



Vol. XV. No. 376. 



BARBADOS, SEPTEMBER 23, 1916. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Page. 



... 318 



312 

 319 

 317 



Accra Cacao Output for 



1915 



Agricultural Situatimi in 



the Pliilippines, The ... 

 Bacon Factory, Salisbury 



Bookshelf 



Cacao Industry, Gold Coast, 



Origin of, 310 



Campaign Against Food 



Plunts of the Cotton 



Stainer 313 



Cotton: — 



Composition of the 

 Cotton Plant and 

 Manuring ... ... 310 



Department News 314 



Departmental Reports ... 30V) 

 Food Plants of the Cotton 



Stainer in St. Vincent, 



Destruction of 319 



Gleanings 316 



How Hawaii Helps Her 

 Farmers to Market then- 

 Produce 



Insect Notes: — 



Tlie Dispersion of the 



House-Fly 



Items of Local Interest ... 

 Java Filire Conference of 



1911 



Market. Reports ... 

 Notes and Comments 



31.5 



Plant Diseases: — 



A Rot of Hevea Stems... 



Safeguarding the Future V)y 



Siiunil Agricultural Policy 



St. Lucia Land Settlement 



Science and Practice in 



American Farming 

 Solomon Islands. British, 



Trade and Exports of the 



314 

 .308 



311 

 320 

 312 



.318 



305 

 310 



3io 



312 



Safeguarding the Future by Sound 

 Agricultural Policy. 



I URING an official \ isit to the Leew arc! 

 Islands this month, the Imperial Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture (Dr. Francis 

 Watts, CM G. ) delivered an instructive address before 

 a well attended meeting of the Antigua Agricultural 

 and Commercial Society, at which His Excellency the 

 Governor presided. 



After referring to the prosperous conditions now- 

 obtaining in Antigua as the result of large crops and 

 high prices, and to the pleasant experience of meet- 

 ing the Society under such conditions, Dr. Watts 

 pointed out that in former times their outlook on the 



future had been dominated by the pressure of necessity, 

 and energies had been centred on finding the best 

 manner of getting through the troublous times without 

 being overwhelmed: the problem had been — How to 

 carr}- on? Now with the relief from dread, there was 

 a danger that men might be content to continue to 

 follow this policy — which was no policy — that of mere 

 carrying on, being content to deal with the problems 

 of the day as they arose. 



It seemed to him that prosperity, or the relief from 

 immediate economic danger, lays upon the men of the 

 community the duty of looking forward, of using the 

 means of the present to safeguard the future, the duty 

 of framing a definite policy, or series of policies, to 

 ensure welfare in times to come. 



The framing of policies might be regarded as the 

 work of individuals or the worK of communities. Now, 

 while undoubtedly the efforts of individuals were all- 

 essential to progress, these efforts must be directed to 

 common ends if communities were to advance and pros- 

 per. It would be readily seen that individual efforts 

 might be very vigorous and active, but those efforts 

 might be directed in different ways, they might clash 

 and be opposed to each other: one party might 

 overpo\\er another and no real progress might result. 

 What was needed was the direction of individual 

 effort to ends of couunon interest. It required the 

 formation of a sound public opinion. 



Now in such work as this 1 )r. Watts thought 

 institutions like the Antigua Agricultural and Com- 

 mercial Society could play a most important part, and 

 it was gratifying to feel that this Society was actually 

 playing such a part and making its influence felb 

 throughout the community; that associated with the 

 Agricultural Department, it was moulding public 



