A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



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Vol. IV. No. 72. 



BARBADOS, JANUARY 14, 1905. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 Antigua, Imported Stock 8 



Bananas : — 



Barbados for Egypt ... 8 

 Hawaii 4 



Bermuda Biological 

 Station 



Cacao, Pruning in 



Martiui(iue 



Congo Free State, Exports 10 

 Cojira and Cocoa-nut Oil 

 Cotton Industry : — 

 Barbados Central 



Factory 5 



Indian Cotton Seed Cake 5 



Prospects of Crop 5 



West Indian Cottim, 

 Introduction into 

 U. S. A 



Department Publications 



Fruit Trees, Budding 



Trojiical 7, 



Gleanings 



Insect Notes : — 

 Crustaceans fri'ni 



Trinidad 



Lime Tree Bark Borer 

 Orange Pest 



Market Reports 



Milk Po n der Factory . . . 



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Notes and Comments 



Our Book Shelf :- 



Fishes of British 



(iuiana 



Sisal Hemp Cultuie in 

 Indian Tea Districts 

 (granges. Picking and 



Marketing 



Para Rubber in iMalay 



States 



Poultry Notes :— 



Varieties of Dmuestic 



Turkeys 



Rubber in the German 



Colonies 



Sea-weed ^s Manure 

 Science Notes : — 

 Plant Food. Eflect uf 



Scarcity 



Plant Stems, Shape of 

 Sugar Industry : — 



British Guiaua 



Price of Sugar 



Trinitlad, Mauurial aspect 

 of Exports of Cacao .. 

 U. S. A. Imports of 



Troi)ical Products .. 

 West Indian Agricultural 



Conference, 1905 . 



West Indian Products in 



Canada 



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West Indian Agricultural 

 Conference, 1905. 



'ij^' HE Fifth West Indian Agricultural Confer- 

 f\K ence was opened in the Council Chamber 

 T^rr^ at the Princes' Buildings, Port-of-Spain, 

 Trinidad, on Wednesday, January 4. His Excellency 



the Governor (Sir Henry M. Jackson, K.C.M.G.) 

 extended a hearty welcome to the Representatives in 

 behalf of the colony. 



In opening the Conference, the President (Sir 

 Daniel Morris, K.C.M.C) congratulated the Represent- 

 atives on being able to meet in so important and 

 progressive a colony as Trinidad, and expressed his- 

 deep appreciation of the assistance rendered by the 

 Government and the members of the Trinidad 

 Agricultural Society. He expressed the belief that he 

 was justified in stating that they had gained the 

 confidence and support of all the prominent men who 

 represent the practical side of agriculture. As the latter 

 were working side by side in hearty co-operation with 

 the scientific si(.le, the results of their labours could 

 not be otherwise than beneficial and of a lasting 

 character. The Representatives would observe that 

 there was a long list of subjects proposed to be dealt 

 with, but, as on former occasions, chief attention would 

 be devoted to those of immediate interest and such 

 as had a direct bearing on the improvement and 

 development of the staple industries of these colonies. 

 A prominent position was given to questions affecting 

 the sugar industry, and a review of the results obtained 

 in recent years in raising varieties of canes yielding 

 more sngar and less liable to disease would show that 

 an appreciable advance had been made in both 

 directions. 



The prospects of the sugar industry were more 

 fjivourablo than they had been for many years and it 

 was realized that the West Indies, after the strenuous 

 efforts made in their behalf, had at last obtained 



