A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. IY. No. 8-t. 



BARBADOS, JULY 1, 1905. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Agricultural Education in 



Jamaica 207 



Auguilla Agricultural 



Sdciety 200 



Barliadiis at the Culimial 



E.N.liil)itiuu 205 



Farbiiiloj Ccitton and 



Banana Industries ... 197 

 Bernuida Onii in Industry 200 

 BriMim Corn in British 



Guiana 201 



Cacao in Sann.a 203 



Cacao Husks, Disposal of 



Diseased 203 



Cotton Notes : — 



Conference of Cotton 



(irowers at Harbadus 199 

 Cost of Ginnini,', Baling;, 



and Shijiping 198 



Manuring Cotton ... 198 



St. Kitt's 199 



Cows' Milk in Jamaica, 



Composition of ... 20C 

 Dejiartment Rejiorts ; — 

 Cotton and other Indus- 

 tries in Barbados ... 205 

 Government Laboratory, 



Jamaica 205 



Fumigation of Impiirted 



Plants 193 



P.UIE. 



Gleanings 



Insect Notes : — 



The Cotton Worm of 



Egypt 



The Fruit Fly 



Market Rejiorts 



Montserrat, Cotton Lands 



at 



Nevis Bath Springs ... 

 Notes and Conuuents ... 

 Pine-apples in the 



Bahamas 



Porto Rico Industries ... 



Ro.ses in St. Kitt's 



St. Lucia, Agriculture in 

 St. Yincent, Agricultural 



Prosfiects in 



Sugar Industry : — 



Cane Farming in 



Trinidad 



Cuba 



Porto Rico 



Seedling Canes in 



St. Kitt's 



Trinidad, Exports of ... 

 Trinidad Fruit Industry 



Trinidad Mangos 



Thymol for Worms in 



Horses 



West Indian Fisheries 



204 



2(12 

 202 

 208 



20O 

 2CC 

 200 



190 

 201 

 197 

 190 



. 190 



194 

 195 

 195 



194 



201 

 201 

 190 



202 

 207 



Fumigation of Imported Plants. 



X the Agricultural Reivs, Vol. IH, p. 74, 

 the necessity for the adoption of a careful 

 and systematic scheme to prevent the 

 introduction of insect pests into the West Indies was 

 strongly urged. It was shown that most of the serious 



insect attacks, in diflerent parts of the world, had been 

 due to the importation of pests from other countries, 

 where, owing to their having been kept in check by 

 natural enemies, or from other causes, their effect on 

 the crops had been insignificant. 



In June 1904 a circular was prepared under the 

 direction of the Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture, 

 containing information with regard to the laws that 

 had already been passed in Jamaica, British Guiana, 

 and Dominica, for the purpose of preventing the 

 introduction of insect pests. This circular was sent to 

 the Governments of those islands throughout the West 

 Indies in which no definite action had, at that time, 

 been taken. Since then considerable progress has been 

 made in the matter of providing fi)r the fumigation of 

 imported plants. 



Dominica has repealed a law previously in force 

 and, on July 27, 1904, passed a very concise and 

 efficient Ordinance, based on that of Jamaica, requiring 

 all imported plants to be fumigated. 



At St. Kitt's-Nevis and Antigua it is jjroposed to 

 fumigate all plants imported by the Imperial Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, as well as any plants that 

 importers may request to have fumigated, and later to 

 pass an Act to make such fumigation compulsory. 



In St. Vincent an Ordinance has been passed 

 (April 8, 1905) repealing the Act of 189.5 and giving 

 the Governor the power to require all imported plants 

 to be fumigated. A site for the fumigation chamber 

 has been chosen, and as the I'equisite funds are 



