A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THK 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. X. No. 233. 



BARBADOS, APRIL 1, 1911. 



Pkice Id, 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Page. 



Agricultural Eftnrt,8tiiiLul- 



ation of 



Agricultural Research, 



Centralization of 

 Agriculture and Ti-arle of 



Martini(|ue. 190« ... 

 Agriculture in Anguilla ... 

 Broom Corn Inilusti'v in 



the United States ... 

 Cocoa-nut Cultivation in 



Antigua 



Cotton Notes : — 



Natural Crossing of t'ot- 



ton 



Tile Supply of Raw Cot 



ton 



West Indian Cotton 



Department News ... 

 Fungus Notes : — 

 Some Diseases of 

 Banana 



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 110 



Germinatiiin of Hovea 

 Seeds 



Gleanings 



Insect Notes : — 



The (ireen Scale 



The Mole Cricket in 

 Trinidad 



Machine fnr Felling Trees 



Market Reports 



Mosquito liMrvaein Drink- 

 ing W.iter 



Notes and Comments ... 



Recent Agricultural Shows 



Rice in British Guiana ... 



Schools Show in Tohago 



Students' Corner 



Sugar Industry : — 



Imjiroved Sugar Machin- 

 ery in St. Lucia ... 

 The Production of Sugar- 

 cane Seedling Varie- 

 ties in Louisiana ... 



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The Stimulation of Agricultural 

 Effort. 



jGRICULTURAL work, in its broadest sense, 

 ^ means that which is undertaken for the 

 (purpose of assisting and directing the devel- 

 opment of industries which are concerned with the pro- 

 duction from the soil of things useful to man. It 

 includes efforts to introduce and grow new products, 

 and to bring about the best conditions under which 

 they will thrive, as well as to maintain a progressive 

 standard of agricultural practice in relation to every- 



thing that is grown for use. Such work cannot attain 

 to its best fruition unless means exist for its stimulation 

 and encouragement, and it will be well to consider 

 generally how it originates, and the manner in which 

 the impulses arise that cause its inception, and make 

 for its progress. 



The chief ways in which agricultural effort in any 

 given direction is stimulated are through the operation 

 of commercial interests; through the desire by private 

 individuals for investigation and advice; and through 

 suggestions on lh*e part of agricultural departments 

 and similar bodies, arising from their experience and 

 work, i'here is also the incentive to such effort that 

 comes from the direct action of Governments; but this 

 action is most generally taken as a result of the inde- 

 pendent indication of a need, so that (Tovernments may 

 be regarded as being the media through which the 

 stimulus acts. In other words, they often form useful 

 means of directing and encouraging effort that has 

 already been suggested through any of the channels 

 that have just been mentioned. 



Commercial methods for the inception and encour- 

 agement of agricultural work are becoming employed 

 more frequently than has been the case in the past. 

 The efforts of the late Sir Alfred Jones, in relation to 

 the West Indies and West Africa, form an example of 

 work of the kind that has been undertaken on a large 

 scale. Many other illustrations of the same phase are 

 available in the West Indies, notably those having 

 relation to the introduction of improved methods of 

 stigar-making, in Antigua and St. Kitts, as well as to 

 the development of the citrus industry and timber re- 

 Sources — the former in Dominica and Montserrat, more 

 especially, and the latter particularly in the first- 

 mentioned island. These do not by any means exhaust 



