A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



LIBRARY 

 NEW YOI?K 

 BOTANICA'^ 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. IV. No. 73. 



BARBADOS, JANUARY 28, 1905. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 Barbados Banana Industi'}' 23 

 Bee Keeping, Output of 



Honey from the V. S. 23 

 British Honduras, 



Development of 

 Cficao hmd, Driduage of 

 Carriacou Land Settlement 



Scheme 



Cotton Tndustrj' : — 



Barbados 



Sea Island Market 



Sea Island Seed 



Seed for 190.5 



West Indies 



Department Publications 

 Dejiartnient Reports : — 

 British Guiana, Agri- 

 cultural work, etc., .. 

 British Guiana, Board 



of Agriculture 



Educational : — 



Jamaica, Agricultural 

 Instruction for 



'I'eachers ... 



Exhibitions : — 



Barbados Local 



24 



20 



21 

 21 

 21 

 24 

 21 

 31 



20 



Page. 



Exhil)itions : — 



Koj'al Horticultural 



Society 25 



Fruit :— 



Colonial, Show of 20 



Lecture on West Indian 20 



Gleanings 28 



Insect Notes : — 

 Motli-borer of the 



Sugar-cane 2(i 



Poison Caterpillar ... 2() 



Market Reports .30 



Notes and Comments ... 24 



Pinc-ajiples, Porto Rico ... 20 



Rice Experiments in 



British Guiana io 



Stock Notes : — 



BlilohCow, A good ... 19 

 Small Settlers' Cows ... 19 



Sugar Industry : — 



Hawaii 18 



Martinique 19 



West Indian Agricultural 

 Ccmference, 1905, 17, 22 



West Indian Products in 



London 29 



West Indian Agricoltural 

 Conference, 1905. 



BRIEF account of the West Indian Agri- 

 cultural Conference held at Trinidad 

 appears in the Agricultural JVeivs of 

 to-day. A fuller report including the addresses at the 

 opening and closing of the Conference and at the 

 Conference dinner, together with an abstract of the 



proceedings, is published in the 'Conference Number' of 

 the Went Inditcn Bulletin also published to-day. The 

 latter conveys in a summarized form a good general 

 idea of the work carried on at the Conference, and we 

 conuiiend it to the attention of our readers. It is 

 obtainable from the London and all agents of the 

 Department. In the meantime, active steps are being 

 taken to publish in the Wevf Indian Bulletin (Vol. V, 

 no. 4, and Vol. VI, no. 1,) the numerous and valuable 

 papers read at the Conference and the discussions that 

 followed in as complete a form as possible. 



It is hoped by these means to present for the 

 information of those interested a fairly comprehensive 

 review of the efforts that are being made by the Imperial 

 Department of ^Agriculture, with the aid of the Agri- 

 cultural Boards and Agricultural Societies and the 

 leading members of the planting community, in improv- 

 ine: the agricultural interests of the West Indies. 



It is believed that, as the result of the Trinidad 

 Conference, the efforts of the agencies above referred to 

 will enter upon a wider and an increasingly appreciated 

 field of usefulness and that a good many of the 

 hindrances and petty jealousies that have appeared in 

 some quarters in regard to the work of the Imperial 

 Department of Agriculture will now disappear. It is 

 gratifying to observe that, wherever the efforts of 

 the Department have been misunderstood, a fuller 

 knowledge of the objects in view has invariably been 

 followed by the hearty co-operation of those whose 

 interests it was intended to serve. This is particularly 

 true in the case of Local Agricultural Shows, the 



