THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS 



March 2, 191: 



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Vol. XI. SATURDAY, MARCH -2, 1912. No. 2.57. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Contents of Present Issue. 



In this issue is presented the second of the 

 editorial articles having relation chiefly to matters that 

 received discussion at the recent Agricultural Con- 

 ference. 



An article on page (38 describes the methods em- 

 ployed for the extracting and preparation of cocoa-nut 

 fibre in Ceylon. 



On page 69, there are given reviews of the annual 

 reports for 1910-11 of the Agricultural Departments in 

 Antigua and Trinidad. 



An article on pages 70 and 71 describes methods 

 for making laboratory measurements for the purpose of 

 valuing cotton lint. The object of these is to supple- 

 ment the tests that are made without an apparatus, 

 by those who possess experience in the matter. 



In this issue, the Insect Notes present an account 

 of sugar-cane insects of Hawaii, which is given on 

 page 74. It will be seen that several of these pests 

 are of the same kind as those in the West Indies; 

 though there are radical differences in the methods that 

 are adopted for the control of some of them. 



Publications of the Imperial Department of 



Agriculture. 



The first jbart of Volume XII of the West Indian 

 Bulletin is being issued. It commences with accounts 

 entitled: Manunal Experiments with Cotton in the 

 Leeward Islands, The Cotton Industry in the Leeward 

 Islands, and Rubber in the Drier West Indian Islands, 

 with Special Reference to Antigua, by Mr. H. A. Tem- 

 pany, B.Sc., Superintendent of Agriculture for the 

 Leeward Islands. The interests of rubber receive further 

 attention in a succeeding article entitled Some Notes 

 on Rubber Trees in Dominica, by J. Jones, Curator of 

 the Botanic Station, Dominica. After the Cadet System 

 in Antigua and St. Kitts has been described in a short 

 article, a jiaper is presented bearing the title An 

 Account of the Return of Vegetation and the Revival 

 of Agriculture in the Area Devastated by the Soufriere 

 of St. Vincent in 1902-3, by W. N. Sands, Agricultural 

 Superintendent, St. Vincent; this is usefully illustrated, 

 and completed by lists of plants collected, during 1907, 

 in the area devastated by the volcanic eruptions. The 

 two articles which follow are entitled Xotes on St. Lucia 

 and its Agriculture, and The Lime Industry in St. Lucia, 

 by J. C Moore, Agricultural Superintendent, St. Lucia. 



The next paper consists mainly of compilations by 

 Mr. G. G. Auchinleck, B Sc, Superintendent of Agri- 

 culture, Grenada, and of a note by Mr. H. A Tempany, 

 B Sc, in connexion with the work of various investi- 

 gators in the West Indies on the subject of The Esti- 

 mation of Certain Physical Properties of Soil; the 

 information given relates chiefly to experiments in soil 

 shrinkage and friabilit}'. The matter in this issue of 

 the West Indian Bulletin is completed by the inclu- 

 sion of papers entitled The Estimation of Carbonates 

 and of Organic Carbon in vSoils, by Di. Francis Watts, 

 C.M.G., etc., Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture for 

 the West Indies: The Epizootiology of Anthrax, by 

 Mr. Stewart Stockman, Sl.R.C.V.S., Chief Veterinary 

 Inspector of the Board of Agriculture, England: Grafted 

 Cacao at the Dominica Botanic Station, by Mr. J. Jone.s; 

 and The Determination of the Water Content of 

 Molasses and The Composition of Antigua and St. 

 Kitts-Nevis Molasses, by Mr. H. A. Tempany, B.Sc., 

 and Mr. V. 51 Weil, B.Sc, Assistant Government; 

 Analyst, Antigua. 



With this issue of the West Indian Bulletin are 

 distributed the Index and Title Page of Volume XI. 



As regards other publications of the Department, 

 it may be stated that the annual reports on the Bntanic 

 Stations in Grenada and Dominica are being issued, 

 Additional interest attaches to these from the fact that 

 they are illustrated. 



An article on page 75 gives an account of the 

 rubber from the West Indies that was exhibited at the 

 Second International Rubber Exhibition held last year 

 in London. It presents a description of the samples, 

 more particularly from a commercial point of view. 



The Fungus Notes, on page 78, review an article 

 that appeared recentl}', describing work in connexion 

 with the red rot disease of the sugar-cane, in Louisiana. 



Candelilla Wax. 



With reference to the note on candelilla wax 

 appearing on page 409 of the last volume of the Agricul- 

 tural News, it is useful to state that, in the Bulletin of 

 the Bureau of Agricultural Intelligence and of Plant 

 Diseases, for November 1910, p. 117, mention is made 

 of the fact that' small lots of this wax are now appear- 



