A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW ubrakv 



OF THE "^^^ VOt^K 



BOTANIC A I 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. '-.oeN. 



Vol. iV. No. 89. 



BARBADOS, SEPTEMBER 9, 1905. 



Price Id. 



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CONTENTS. 



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Page. 



Autigu.i, Poultry at ... 283 

 Banan.a Industry "f the 



Canary Islands ... 270 

 Butter Making in Trinidad '281 

 Cotton Notes : — 

 Anguilla 

 Exports from 



Indies 

 Jamaica 

 Rotation in 



Growing 



Sea Island Cottoi 



Thread 



Departmental Reports 



Montserrat 



Porto Rice 



Trinidad 



Dejiartment News ... 

 Educational : — 



St. Vincent Agricultural 

 School ... ... ... 283 



School (iardens in Porto 



Rico 283 



Fruit, Preventing Deca}' 



of ripe 



Gleanings 



Hedge Plants 



Insect Notes : — 



Application t)f Paris 



Green 



Insect Pests in Portei 

 Rico 



278 

 270 



278 



270 



285 

 285 

 285 

 287 



277 



284 

 28G 



282 



282 



I'AGE. 



Manures, Valuation of ... 280 



Market Reports 288 



Martiniiiue, Exports of ... 280 

 Notes and Connuents ... 280 

 Our Book Shelf: — 



Chemical Control in 

 Sugar Factories ... 



Jamaica in 100.^ 



Peppers from Nevis 

 Rice Cultivation in British 



Guiana 277 



St. Kitt's-Nevis, Agri- 

 cultural Progress at... 281 

 St. Lucia, Crown Lands 



at 



.Shipjiing Cotton 



Sugar Industr}' : — 



Martinique 



St. Kitt's 



We.st Indian Seedlings 

 in Queensland 

 Tobacco Cultivation in 



Culia 



Trinidad Cacao 



Industry 



West Indian Agricultural 



Conference, 1900 ... 



West Indian Fruit in 



London 



West Indian Prcjducts : — 



Canada 287 



London 287 



280 

 28(i 

 280 



281 

 97", 



274 

 274 



280 

 270 



Shipping Cotton. 



-, S^S NIFORMITY in the quality of the yarn 



^ ^^^'I'J produced in the spinning factory is one of 



q1^^^Kj'^<si t'ls chief aims of the spinner. He finds it 



s;j luinous to produce different qualities and have to sell 



1. them as the same grade ; yet, unless he can buy raw 



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material with uniform qualities, it is impossible for him 

 to do otherwise. The quality of the lint produced on 

 different estates, even in one island, varies. In order, 

 therefore, to maintain a uniformity in his product the 

 spinner always purchases ' crop lots,' namely, the whole 

 production of an estate, and only occasionally purchases 

 odd bales at a lower price. When buying odd bales, 

 he has to be very careful to see that the cotton is f lirly 

 uniform in quality, whereas, when buying the whole 

 production of an estate, he may expect with some 

 confidence that the quality will be of a fixirly uniform 

 character. 



It will therefore be readily understood that in 

 requesting the Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture 

 to publish in the Agricultural News a recommen- 

 dation to cotton growers in the West Indies to avoid 

 the shipment of cotton in small lots, the British Cotton- 

 growing Association has in view the interests of both 

 the spinners and the growers. It is pointed out that 

 some growers are shipping even 1 or 2 bales by con- 

 secutive mails : these should rather have been kept 

 back until 5 or 10 bales were ready for shijjment, 

 which could then be sold as 'crop lots.' 



Reference has already been made to this matter 

 in these columns; in the issue of February 11 last it 

 was stated : 'We desire to impress upon cotton growers 

 the desirabilit}' of avoiding the shipment of odd lots of 

 cotton. Not only is it difficult for the brokers to effect 

 the sale of these, but low prices are likely to be the 

 result.' This point was also emphasized by Mr. E. 

 Lomas Oliver in his address at Barbados published in 

 the Agricultural News (Vol. Ill, p. 359). 



