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Deckmbee- 9, 1911. 



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Vol. X. SATLTltDAY, 1)KCE.\[};EK 9, 1911. No. -2.51. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



English Delea:atestothe Agricultural Conference, 

 1912. 



Information has just b;en received by the Imper- 

 ial Department of Agriculture as to the sending of 

 delegates to the forthcoming Agricultural Conference, 

 from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and from the 

 Enoornological Research Committee. 



The delegate from the former institution is 

 Mr. Arthur W.Hill, M.A., F.LS., Assistant Director, 

 while MS regards the Entomological Research Commit- 

 tee, Mr. Guy A. Iv. Marshall, Scientific Secretary to 

 the Committee, will attend the Conference as its 

 representative. 



The names of the representatives of the British 

 Cotton Growing Association have been published 

 already, in the Agricultural News, for November 11, 

 p. 358. Information is not yet av.iilable as to the 

 representation of others of the English institutions to 

 whom invitations have been sent, e.xcept that as i.s 

 .stated elsewhere in this issue, it will not be convenient 

 for a delegate to attend from the Hothamsted Experi- 

 ment Station. 



Contents of Present Issue. 



The editorial in this number gives information 

 concerning the forthcoming Agricultural Conference, 

 and includes the provisional programme of the pro- 

 ceedings. 



An interesting summary of the results obtained in 

 the last sugar-cane seedling experiments in St. Kitts 

 is given on page 387. 



Under the heading Departmental Reports, on page 

 389, reviews are presented of the reports on the agri- 

 cultural departments in Barbados and the Nyasaland 

 Protectorate, for the period 1910-11. 



Page 391 contains an article dealing with a disease 

 of alfalfa which causes changes in the roots similar to 

 thsoe produced by the nodule organism. It is to be 

 understood that the existence of this disease is a matter 

 of importance in relation to the inoculation of new 

 areas of soil with that in which alfalfa has been grown. 



A description is given on this page of the contents 

 of the ^Y<'M Indian Bulletin, Vol. XI, No. 4, recently 

 issued. This may^ be obtained from the agents for 

 the sale of the publications of the Imperial Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture: price M., post free, 9.U?. 



The Insect Notes on page 394 present an illus- 

 trated article dealing with the cotton stainer in 

 Trinidad. A note is also given concerning legislation 

 in connexion with the frog-hopper of the sugar-cane. 



On page 398 the Fungus Notes are presented. 

 They deal with thq interesting and important subject 

 of the rotting of timber and its prevention. 



Publications of the Imperial Department of 

 Agriculture. 



The West Indian Bulletin, Vol. XI, No. 4, has 

 just been issued. The purpose of this is to aflbrd 

 a broad review of the work of the Imperial Department 

 of Agriculture in the past, and to indicate some of the 

 problems to be considered by it in the future. For this 

 reason, this number of the irc-s^ Indian Bulletin, is 

 concerned solely with matters that pertain directly to 

 the interests and history of the Imperial Department 

 of Agriculture. 



In pursuance of the scheme, the contents are of 

 the following nature, and are arranged according 

 to this plan. A short editorial introduction is suc- 

 ceeded by the paper entitled The Imperial Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in the West Indies, read by Sir 

 Daniel Morris, K.C.M.ti , before the Royal Colonial 

 Institute, on January 10, 1911, and rej)rinted by per- 

 mission from United Emjnre (Journal of the Royal 

 Colonial Institute), for February 1911. This is .suc- 

 ceeded by a reprint, also by pernii.ssion, from Nature 

 for February 9, 1911, of the article by Sir W. T. 

 Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.IM.G., F.R.S., entitled What 

 Science Has Done for the West Indies. 



The succeeding subjects are dealt with mainly from 

 the aspect of the internal work of the Department. 

 They are presented, in order, as follows: Chief Matters 

 Concerning Departmental Administration: Matters of 

 Indirect Interest; Entomology in the West Indies; 

 A Summary o"f Ten Years" Jlyculogical Work of the 

 Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indie-s; 

 The Work in the Botanic Stations from Year to Year; 

 General Progress in the West Indies Since 1897; 

 Agricultural Education and Instruction: and Publica- 

 cations Issued by the Imperial Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



