A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. IV. No. 94. 



BARBADOS, NOVE^(J!EK 2.j, 1905. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Agricultui-id Educatimi in 



Jainnica 365 



Agricultural 8ho\v in the 



Virgin Islands 365 



Arbor Day at Tt.bago ... 303 



Barl)ailos Banana Indus- 

 try 3.53 



Bermuda, Ecunouiio 



Plants in .">50 



British Honduras Fruit 



Trade 367 



Cacao, Grafting 



Cacao, Wet and Dry 

 Cas.sava Trials in .lauiaica 

 Caynuin Islands, Exiiorts 

 Cliinese Bananas at 



Grenada 



Citrons, Candied 



Cocoa-nuts, Selection of 

 Cotton Notes : — 



Ajjplying Paris ( ireen 



Carriacou 



Picking Cotton 



Sea Island Cotton 

 Prospects 



Sea Island .seed 



Forwarding diseased 



Plants and Insects . . . 

 Gleanings 



359 

 361 

 361 

 360 



356 

 356 

 363 



358 

 368 



358 

 358 



366 

 364 



P. 



and Sliad- 



Grape Fruit 



docks 



Houey, Jamaica 



Insect Notes : — 



Bananas and Mosquifos 

 Fruit Fly and its Natur 



Enemies 



Mangos in England 



Market Reports 



ISIontserrat, Soils of 

 Notes and Comments ... 

 Science Notes : — 



Akee Ti-ee 



Monstera deliciosa ... 

 Sisal Hemp in Caicos 



Lslands 



Straits Settlements, Agri- 

 culture in 



Strawberry Culture in 



Cuba 



Sugarcane Experiments 



at Barbados 



Sugar Industrj- in Fiji ... 

 Vanilla Cultivation in 



Mexico 



West Indian Agricultural 



Conference, 1906 ... 

 West Indian Bulletin ... 

 West Indian Products in 



Canada 



AGE. 



357 

 36-' 



362 



d 



362 



356 



308 



361 



360 



359 

 359 



363 



359 



354 



36V 



300 

 361 



.367 



Barbados Banana Industry. 



N Noveinbor lo a deputation of banana 

 growers at Barbados was received by 

 Mr. Owen Pliilipps, the Chairman of the 

 Koyal Mail Stcava Packet Company, for the purpose 



of expressing their views in connexion with tite 

 shipment of bananas to the United Kingdom. 



The Hon. Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., briefly 

 introduced the deputation and invited the Hon. F. J. 

 Clarke, the Chairman of the deputation, to lay before 

 Mr. Philipps the present position as aftccting the 

 banana growers. 



'Sir. F. J. Clarke stated that the deputation desired 

 to place before the Chairman of the Royal Mail 

 Company certain points in connexion with the 

 shipment of bananas from Barbados. The total 

 shipments for the year, so far, were something like 

 40,000 bunches, which showed that the banana industry 

 was increasing and fall of promise. Under favourable 

 circumstances next year the shipments might reach 

 100,000 bunches. 



Great difficulty had been experienced, in the 

 early stages of the industry, owing to the fact that, 

 during the summer months, with the conditions then 

 existing on the Royal Mail steamers, the bananas were 

 frequently spoiled in transit. The company had been 

 good enough, on the suggestion of the Imperial 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, to install the Hall's cold- 

 storage system on the ' Trent ' and ' Tagus.' Recently 

 the ' Orinoco ' had been similarly fitted, and they 

 understood that the installation of a fruit chamber had 

 been commenced on the ' Atrato.' The ' La Plata ' had 

 no accommodation whatever for carrying fruit. This 

 meant that planters had lost, and w^cre steadily losing, 

 money by their shipments of bananas in the latter 

 vessel. 



