A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



I'racE If?. 



Vol. IV. No. 90. 



BARBADOS, SEPTEMBElt iZ, 1905. 



CONTENTS. 



Jiiuulturiil 111 

 (Jivmbia 



Page. 



.dustrie.s of 

 297 



Bananas, A^aiieties of ... 292 



Cacao in the Virgin 



Islands 29(i 



Cfvlon Riibljer Industry 2!)7 

 Cocoa-nut Palm Bud-nit 20!J 

 Colonial and Indian 



Exhibition Awards... 293 

 Cotton Notes : — 



Cultivation in Jamaica 294 

 High Price for St. Vin- 

 cent Cotton ... 

 West Indian E.xports . 

 Cul a, Fruit Trade of , 



Departmental Reports : 



Antigua 



Dominica 



Department News ... 



Fruit, Gathering toi' 

 Market 



Truit, Preventing Decay 

 of ripe 



Gleanings 



Gonimier Resin ... 



Hurricane Insurance 



294 

 294 

 292 



301 

 301 

 302 



297 



295 



.. 300 

 .. 302 



.. 299 



Page. 



Insect Notes : — 



Beneficial Insects in 



Cotton Fields 29S 



Citrus Pest at Mfint- 



serrat 208 



Market Reports 304 



Nature Study 201 



Notes and Connnents ... 290 

 ()ur Book Shelf:— 



Hints on Agriculture... 302 



Tropical Life 302 



Papain 292 



Para Rubber Seeds, 



Germinating 293 



Pimento Growing in 



Jamaica 295 



Pine-apples, Shading ... 292 

 St. Vincent Land Settle- 

 ment Scheme 303 



Sugar Industry : — 



Cuba 200 



Manufacture of Levu- 



lose 200 



Tenerifc Onion Seed ... 29G 



Tobacco Growing under ' 



Shade 290 



Vanilla, Supports for ... 297 

 West Indies and the 



Colonial Exhibition 289 



West Indies and the Colonial 

 Exhibition. 



^K LSEWHEKE in these pages i^articulars 

 are given as to the awards made in 

 tlie West Indian Court as the result 

 of the judging of the exhibits at tlie Colonial 



and Indian Exhibition at the Crystal Palace. The 

 announcement of these awards will be read with con- 

 siderable interest throughout the West Indies. More 

 detailed information is to be found in the last issue of 

 the West India Committee Gircuh'r. 



The honour of receiving the special gold medal 

 for the best collective exhibit falls to Jamaica. The 

 task of awarding this medal was entrusted to 

 Mr. W. G. Freeman, Superintendent of the Colonial 

 Economic Collections at the Imperial Institute, whose 

 interesting descriptive articles on the several exhibits 

 have appeared in the Ayricaltarul News. The marks 

 awarded by him were as follows: (1) Jamaica, 97 per 

 cent.: (2) Trinidad, 84 per cent.: (3) Barbados, 78 per 

 cent.; (4) Grenada, 37 per cent. Jamaica well deserves 

 her success in winning the gold medal. It will be 

 seen, however, that Trinidad and Barbados made close 

 running. These three colonies are to be congratulated 

 upon the excellent show made by them. 



Turning now to the general awards, each of these 

 three colonies secured a grand prize for her general 

 exhibit, while Trinidad has the distinction of securing 

 an additional grand prize, which was awarded to the 

 Botanical Department for an exhibit of kidney seed- 

 cotton. To Jamaica thirty-five medals were awarded, 

 thirty-one to Trinidad, while Barbados secured twenty- 

 five. The success which attended the exhibits of the 

 Trinidad Botanical Departmentdeserves sjjecial mention. 

 It will be seen from the summary published elsewhere 

 that Mr. Hart's department secured no fewer than 

 seven medals, in addition to the grand prize for cotton 

 already referred to. 



