A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. IV. No. 80. 



BARBADOS, MAY 6, 190-5. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Banana Tiado 



Barbados Bananas, Pack- 

 ing 



Barbados Industrial 



School 



Barbados versu.s Jamaica 

 Bananas 



Bee Keeping : — 



Preparation of Honey 

 for Market 



Page. 

 .. 1;^j7 



K: 



141 



132 



.. 141 



Economic Plants for 



Sale 135 



■Gleanings 140 



Page. 



Insect Note : — 



Termites or White Ants 138 

 Mahiria, Immunity of 



Barbados from ... 138 



Market Reports 144 



Notes and Comments ... 13(i 

 Leeward Islands, Agri- 

 culture in 13.3 



Our Book Shelf :— 



Diseases of Cattle ... 130 

 List Lif Plants in 

 Botanic Gardens in 



Uganda 130 



Poultry Notes : — 



Poultry Keeping and 



Gardening 142 



Rainfall Returns, 



St. Kitt's 143 



Science Note : — 



Mimusops Elengi 142 



Sugar Industry : — 

 Experiments in 



British Guiana ... 131 



Naudet Process 130 



West Indian Agricultural 



Conference 131 



West Indian Products: — 

 London Drug and 



Spice Market 143 



Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 

 1905. 



EFERENCES have been made from time 

 to time in the Agricultural News to the 

 preparations that have been made in the 

 'various West Indian Colonies to secure representation 



at the Colonial and Indian Exliibition to be held at 

 the Crystal Palace this year. 



The exhibition, which will be officially opened by 

 the Lord Mayor of London and the Sheriffs on May 12 

 next, is certain to be visited by a laige number of 

 persons interested in these colonies. It is, therefore, of 

 great importance that the West Indies should be 

 adequately represented. The West India Committee 

 has, from the beginning, taken a very active part in 

 connexion with the representation of these islands, and 

 it is largely due to its energetic action that the 

 preparations have been brought to so satisfactory 

 a position. The action of the West India Committee 

 has received hearty suppox't in these islands where 

 local committees have been busy in getting together 

 representative exhibits for the West Indian court. 



Reference to the plan of the Exhibition, which 

 was published in the Agricidturcd Neivs, Vol. IV, 

 p. 39, will show that a most advantageous position has 

 been allotted for the West Indian Court, immediately 

 in front of the central entrance to the Palace and 

 adjacent to the central transept 



The Court will occupy a space of about 7,000 

 square feet, of which each colony, and the Royal Mail 

 Steam Packet Co., will have its integral section. Every 

 effort has been made to render the Court attractive, 

 which w ill have, according to the West India Committee 

 Circular, 'an open screen, running all round, of a rich, 

 buff colour, the mouldings relieved with lacquered 

 gold, and the facias ornamented with a blue ground, 

 and also relieved with gold; and an inner screen, which 



