A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



Vol. X. No. 21.3. 



BARBADOS, AUGUST 19, 1911. 



Price Id, 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Page. 



Agricultural Lectures in 

 Antiijua 



Book Shelf 



CaiKidian National Exliibi- 

 tion and Barbados ... 



Ceara Latex, Ettect of Ni- 

 trate of Soda on Flow 

 of 



Ceara Rubber, Tapping 

 Expei'iments with ... 



Cotfnn and Sugar in China 



Cotton Notes : — 



British Cotton Growing 



Association 



Cotton in the Sudan ... 



Sea Island Cotton Season 



in tho United States 



West Indian Sea Island 



Cotton 



Department News 



Fibre of Calotropis sp]i. ... 



Fungus Notes : — 



The Bracket Fungi ... 



Gleanings 



Hayti, Economic Condi- 

 tions in 



Horses, Shoeing of 



26(i 

 261 



259 



265 



265 

 271 



262 

 2G3 



262 



262 

 270 

 264 



270 

 268 



269 

 271 



Hydrocyanic Acid in 



Leaves, Production of 2G5 

 Insect Notes : — 



The Pollination of the 



; Smyrna Fig 206 



International Agricultural 



Institute 257 



Internation.il Rubber Ex- 

 hibition, Awards at ... 267 



Market Reports 272 



j Nature Teaching and Hy- 

 giene in Elementary 

 I Sch(»ils,BritishGuiana 264 



Notes and Comments ... 264 

 Para, Extension of Rubber 



Industry in 207 



Rainfall in Antigua, 1910 265 

 Rice, Perennial, from 



Senegal 260 



Rubber tjrowers, German 



Assistance to 271 



Students' Corner 269 



Sugar Industry : — 

 I Cane .luices, New Way 



i of Filtering 259 



I Sugar in Guadeloupe ... 259 

 : Tuliei-cnlcisis, New Test for 263 



The International Agricultural 

 Institute. 



^HEInTERXATImXAL Ac;]{ir!i;rrK.\LlNSTIT(TK 



.was founded in the year 1905, at Rome, and 

 ^ has received the co-operation of the Govern- 

 ments of most of the principal countries of the world. 

 According to a recent Report of the Work of the Inter- 



national Agricultural Institute*, ' since that time the 

 Institute has been organized on an effective basis, aud 



is doing most useful work, with which agriculturists 



would do well to make themselves acquainted.' At the 

 l)resent time, forty-nine States are represented in the 

 Institute — a number which is much larger than that of 

 the adherents to any other international institute. 

 The latter statement is made on the authority of the 

 President of the Institute, and is contained in the 

 report which is mentioned above. It is sufficient to 

 show the large amount of interest that is being taken 

 in the work of the Institute, and indicates, also, the 

 amount of responsibility which that work entails. 



The purpose of the Institute is stated shortly in 

 a phrase of the Rome Convention, namely, ' the Insti- 

 tute shall collect, elaborate, and publish, with as little 

 dela}- as possible, statistical, technical, and economic 

 information relating to the cultivation of the soil, and 

 to agricultural products.' One of its aims is to aff"ord 

 information to the agricultural world concerning the 

 statistics of production, and the commerce and prices 

 of the principal pro<lucts, in order that agriculturists 

 may be able to defend themselves from the results of 

 unwarrantable speculation. This aim alone would, 

 however, have only justified the establishment of an 

 International Bureau of Agricultural Statistics, in the 

 place of the International Institute of Agriculture. The 

 wide range of the work of the Institute has necessi- 

 tated the publication of three Bulletins : a Bulk-tin 

 of Statisiirs, a Bulletin of Agricultural IntelUi/ence 

 and of Plant Diseases, and a Bulletin of Economic 

 and Soci(d Intelligence. Extracts and abstracts from 

 the first two, made for the Agricultural Neivs, have 

 already brought them to the notice of its readers. 



*Issued as a Supplement to the Jnninal of the. Board of 

 Afiricnltnrf, Vol. XVIII, No. 4, Jidy 1911, from which the 

 following paiticulars are taken. 



