A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THK 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. IV. No. O." 



BARBADOS, NOVEMl^.Ei; 11, 100.".. 



I'I'.ICE Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Agriculture in St. Lucia... 337 

 British Guiana Fislieries 343 

 British Honduras, Agri- 

 culture in SoO 



Cacao, Clayed v. Unclayed 343 

 Cohune Nut Cracking 



Machine 344 



CdhuneNut Palm 34!) 



Colonial Fruit Show ... 340 

 Corn, Compo.sition of 



Jamaica .341 



Cotton Notes : — 



Destruction of old 



Cotton Plants 342 



Exports of West 



Indian Cotton 343 



Uses for Sea Island 



Cotton 342 



Date Palms in Jamaica ... .340 

 Departmental Reports : — 



British (Juiana 347 



Jamaica .347 



Department News 34!-> 



Educational : — 



Grenada 350 



Trinidad 350 



Gleanings 348 



Insect Notes : — ■ 



Cigarette and Biscuit 



Beetles 346 



Fiddler Beetle attacking 

 Cacau 340 



Page. 



Jamaican Fodders 345 



Lima Beans 351 



Lime Juice, Ascertaining 



Strength of .34!) 



Market Reports 352 



Notes and Counncnts ... 344 



Papaw Juice 33'.l 



Para Rubber as Shade for 



Cacao 347 



Para Rubber in Malay 



States 340 



Pine-ajiples, Hybridiza- 

 tion of 340 



Rice Cultivation in British 



Guiana 344 



St. Vincent Cotton Grow- 

 ers' Association ... 345 



Seychelles, Subsidiary In- 

 dustries in 345 



Soil Inoculation for 



Alfalfa 341 



Sugar Industry : — 



D. 74 in Louisiana ... 339 

 Improvement in Sugar- 

 cane 338 



Pi'ogress in the West 

 Indies .33!) 



Trinidad Fruit Trade ... 340 



West Indian Birds, 



Extirpated 345 



West Indian Products in 



London Market ... 351 



tunity for reviewing brieH}' the work that has been 

 carried on by the Imperial Department of Agriculture 

 in St. Lucia during the last two years. 



Agriculture 



in St. Lucia. 



HE issue, recently, of tlio Annual Reports 

 on the Botanic Station, Agricultural School, 

 Experiment Station, and Experiment Plots 

 in St, Lucia for the year 1904-5 affords a suitable oppor- 



The appearance of the Botanic Station has been 

 further improved during the year 1904-.5 by the 

 addition of a largo number of interesting plants. 

 Bare and shady spots are gradually being converted 

 into attractive rockeries. The station is very popular 

 with the residents of Castries, as also with the many 

 visitors from abroad. The nursery has been kept 

 well stocked with economic plants, 9,104 being 

 distributed duiiug the year. Plants were also distri- 

 buted from the nurseries at the Agricidtural School 

 and the Riviere Doree Station, which brought the total 

 number of plants distributed by the Department in 

 St. Lucia to o4,995, a considerable increase over last 

 year's distribution. 



The Officer-in-charge of the Agricultural School 

 (where twenty-five resident pupils are regularly trained 

 in the practical details of agriculture) reports that 

 progress was maintained in the indoor work and that the 

 pupils took an increased interest in their individual 

 crardens and also in the technical work that is carried on 

 at the Experiment Station. In the experiment plots 

 a large variety of crops was cultivated. The experi- 

 ments in cotton growing demonstrated that, in a normal 

 season, good i-esultscan be obtained with the Sea Island 

 variety. The yiekl of seed-cotton from the plot, i acre 

 in extent, planted early in June, was 4S2 lb., or at 

 the rate of 247 lb. of lint per acre. The results of 

 late planting were unsatisfactory, only 901 lb. of seed- 

 cotton being reaped from the i-acre plot. 



