A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



LIBRARY 



NEW YORK 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Trohn.' 



Vol. X. No. 2JS. 



BARBADOS, JANUARY 21, 1911. 



Pkick Id, 



CONTENTS. 



Haok. 



Page. 



Agricultural Exaniinatinns 

 Agriculture and Hygii'iic in 



Grenada Schunls 

 Bananas, Some iVlelliods nf 



Trans] II irtinjj 



Camjilmr in (Jerman East 



Africa 



Coastal Steamer Service for 



Trinidad and 'I'obago 



Colonial Fruit Show 



Cotton Notes : — 



A Melhod fnr Cotton 



Selection Throughout 



the Season 



Prizes f ( ) f Peasan b C'l itti >n- 



Growing in St. Lucia 

 \Ve.st Indian Cotton ... 



Dejjartment News 



Departmental Reports 

 Distrilmtion of Weeds ... 

 Fungus Notes : — 



The Hud-Rot Disease of 



Palms in India, I'artll 



tileanings , 28 



India. Trade of, 1009-10 .. L'4 

 Insect Notes : — 



An Insect Pe.st of Cacao 



in Uganda 20 



Market Reports :'•■> 



Milk, Certiticatinn of 21 



Notes and Connnents ... 24 



Rice in British Guiana ... .31 



Ruldier from the West In- 

 dies and Britisli (iuiana .'U 



Ruliber-planting in Cochin- 

 China 2."i 



Some Relationships of De- 

 partments of Agricul- 

 ture to Connnerce .. 17 



Students' Corner 29 



Sugar Industry : — 



Sngar Importation into 



Japan 24 



Sugar-Cane Variety E.\- 



])erinieiils in Antigua 19 



Some Rehitionships of Depart- 

 ments of AgricLiltni'e 

 to Commerce. 





HE many ways in which an agricuhiiral 



r Js^'Jljilepartiiient takes |jarfc in, or has an influence 



' — (^ 006"'^ on. the different concerns in a community or 



P^ country cause its growth and progre.ss to be guided in 



g an intimate manrer by the conditions which suiTound 



•^ it. Such a department passes through the stages of 



CD evolution proper to itself, and each of these stage?, if 



its aims are in sympathy with the requirements of the 

 country which it is supposed to serve, is influenced 

 directly by the nature of those requirements and the 

 work tliat has been done in order to fulfil them. 



This manner of regarding the growth of an agri- 

 cidtural department does not, however, afford a complete 

 view of the nature of its work and responsibilities: nor 

 does it give an adequate idea of the extent to which it 

 has done its part in assisting planters. In its own 

 evolution, it has been necessary that it should take part 

 in one or more of the stages of the evolution of other 

 concerns that are of common interest. Tliis share may 

 have been of a temporary nature, but one which is none 

 the le.ss important, because of the necessity for it to be 

 taken at the partic:dar time, and the need for the 

 existence of such a department ftu' the pur[)ose. 



It is work of this kind that is most quickly 

 forgotten, and for which credit ceases to be given, as 

 the special circtinistances of the case become more 

 remote in time. This should not, however, discourage 

 those who are likelv to become responsible for it. They 

 must be willing to do what is required of them, at 

 the proper opportunity: what is more difHcult, they 

 must know when the stage is reached at which the 

 usefulness of their activities in the matter ceases; and 

 be ready, then, to place the results of their labours in 

 the hands of others, for the proper commencement of 

 another degree in the extension of whatever line of 

 activity may have required their temporary assistance. 



In returning to the consideration of the ordinary 

 growth of an agricultural department, it is unnecessaty, 

 now, to review in detail the degrees in which this 

 usually takes place. There are many examples which" 



