

FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



LIB|{, 



Vol. XL No. 256. 



BARBADOS, FEBRUARY 17, 1912. 



Pbicb Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Page. 



Aitriciiltuial Conference, 



1912, I 4<.t 



A'.;iicultiiiul Pupils, Dom- 

 inica, Half-YuBily Ex- 

 amination ^9 



Amuioniuui Salts, I'tiliza- 



tion iif by Green Pl.ints 57 



Arsenic in Di))jiing Fluids, 



Clianijes in 57 



Australian Salt Bushes as 

 Food for Stock 5G 



Cacao Prize Competition in 

 Trinidad 53 



Casein Manufacture in Aus- 

 tralia 58 



Citrus Fruit Handlin>; and 



Sliijiping in Florida ... .52 



Cotton Notes : — 



British Cotton (jrowing 



Association 54 



West Indian Cotton ... 54 



Department News 53 



Exports from Pominica ... .59 



Fungus Notes : — 



Spots on Para Rulibcr ... ()2 



Gleanings 60 



Gn-o Vine 02 



Insect Notes : — 



Formalin as .i Poison for 



the House Fly 58 



The New Zealand Gras.s 

 Giub 58 



.Mangoes, New. for the 



West Indies 52 



Market Reports 64 



Note.s and Comments ... 50 



Nutrition, Necessity for 



Phosjiliorus in 55 



Para Rubber Seed Oil ... 61 



Pax-a Rubber .Seeds, Geriui- 



nation of 53 



rViisoiKjus Sul>stances in 

 Plants, EHeet of Culti- 

 vation on 03 



Prize-Holdings Competi- 

 tions in (irenada, I'.Ul 50 



Rubber Cult i vat ion in Para, 

 Enc(juragcment of ... 59 



Students' Corner 61 



Sugar from Shredded Cane 59 



.Sugar Industry : — 



The Java Sugar Crop ... 51 



Tobacco in Ceylon, Experi- 

 ments witli 63 



West Indian Products ... 63 



Yaws, Treatment of 57 



The West Indian Agricultural Conference, 



1912. 

 I. 



^^Hw^E eighth West Indian Ag-ricnltiuMl Con- 

 r^ ^l^ference was opened at the Vietoiia Institute, 

 ^^fe!^35|Port-ofSpain, Trinidad, on January 23.1912, 

 by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Georgt- R. Le Hunt, 

 Ci.C.M.G. In his opening address, in welcoming the 



Delegates from England, from the West Indies, and 

 from British Guiana, as well as from Dutch Guiana, 

 His E.\cellency referred to the personal pleasure afford- 

 ed him by the oppoitunity for renewing past acquaint- 

 anceships, and while regretting that the time of year 

 was not such as to show agricultural matters at their 

 best, in Trinidad, expressed the hope that the conditions 

 would be such as to afford the most fiivourable oppor- 

 tunities of viewing those matters. After reference to 

 occurrences of local interest, in which the Delegates 

 were invited to take part, and exj)ression of his wishes 

 for the success of the Conference, His Excellency called 

 upon the Commissioner of Agriculture, as President, to 

 deliver his address. 



Iti this address, a review of general matters, leading 

 up to the time of the d inference, was followed by a more 

 detailed account of the progress and state of the chief 

 industries in the We.st Indies, as well as of the various 

 schemes that are being carried out with a view to the 

 encouragement and improvement of agriculture. At the 

 conclusion of this section. Dr. Watts employed the suc- 

 ceeding portion of his address in reviewing the progress 

 that has been made in the last fifteen years, showing the 

 evolution that had taken place, previous to this period, 

 from the independently existing botanical and chemi- 

 cal lines of work to the association between the differ- 

 en6 workers that had come into being, by 1897 — the 

 year of the visit of the West India Royal Commission, 

 The subsecpient Imperial recognition and support of 

 the work that was being done gave most useful encour- 

 agement, and led to very important results both as 

 regards the widening of the sphere of agricultural 

 ertort and the extended diffusion of agricultural 

 knowledge. 



