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A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



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Vol X. No. 251. 



BARBADOS, DECEMBER 9, 1911. 



Prick Id, 



CONTENTS. 



Pack. 



Page. 



Aijriculturiil C( inference, 

 1912 



Agricultural Conference, 

 Englisli Dflega'es to 



Alfalfa, A Disease of, and 

 Soil Inoculation 



Basic Slvig, Lime in 



Castilloa, Tapping Experi- 

 ments in Grenada ... 



Cotton Notes : — 



Cotton Crop in Variod^ 



Countries 



Cotton-Spinning Statis- 

 tics 



West Indian Cotton ... 



Cul:;ui Tdliacco Crop 



Departmental Reports ... 



Fiji, Trade and Agricul- 

 tine. 191(1 



Fungus Kotes : — 

 Timljor, Rotting of, and 

 Prevention 



Germination, Formation 

 of Prussic Acid in ... 



Gold Coast, Trade and 

 Agriculture, 1010 ... 



The AgricuUural Couferenco, 

 1912 



.OTICES concerning the next West Indian 

 (" ^^^1^ Agricultural Conference, to be heid in Trinidad 

 S^l^bin January 1912,have appeared recently in the 

 Agricultaral News (pages 354, 300 and 37(i), and the 

 titne has now arrived at which a provisional programme 

 of the proceedings can he drawn up. This has been 



done, and copies of such a programme are now being 

 issued by this Dejjartiuent, and distributed in the West 

 Indie.s. The present opportunity is being taken, also, 

 to reproduce it at a later stage of this article. 



The progrnuune indicates that the discussions at 

 the Conference are likely to be of the greatest interest 

 and importance, and these will doubtless be increased 

 largely by the fact that several institutions in England 

 are to send delegates. As was stated in the Agricul- 

 tural Neil's of November 11, p. 360, the institutions 

 that ha\c been approached in this connexion are the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kcw, the Imp -rial Institute, 

 the Biitish Coiton Crowing Association, the \\'est India 

 Committee, the ICntomological Kesearch Committee 

 and the RotJiamsted iMperimeut Statiop. Up to the 

 present, it has been ascertained tliat represeniatives 

 will atteml the Conference from the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Kew, from the British Cotton Growing 

 Associition, the number in this case being two, and 

 from the Entomological Research Committee. It is 

 a matter fir regret that the arrangements for the 

 coming year at the Rothamsted Experiment Station 

 will not permit of the attendance of its distinguished 

 Director— Mr. A. D. Hall, M.A., F.R..S. 



The programme indicates that the uuittcrs for 

 presentation and discussion will be mainly conceincd 

 with the work of experiment and research with ilie 

 principal crops of the West Indies and British Giiiaaa, 

 and with the state and progress of the chief agricul- 

 tural industries of the various colonies. As in the past, 

 agricultural education will take an important place in 

 the proceedings; attention will also be given to the pro- 

 posal for the appointment of a West Indian Trade 

 Commissioner for Canada, and to the work that is being 

 carried out by the Entomological Research Committee- 



