A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



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You XVL No. 397. 



BARBADOS, .JULY 14, 1917. 



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CONTENTS. 



Paqk. 



Agricultural Credit Soce 



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Agriculture and the War 

 Advances upon Agricil 



tural Produce ... 

 Antigua, Rainfall in 19.6 22:^ 

 Barbados, Agriculture ii ...212 

 Barbados, Colonial Re- 

 port, 1915-16 



Bees in relation to Agii 



culture . 



Bread, Vit«inine3 in . 

 British Sugar Techno!) 



gists 



Chemistry and Food Sup 



plies 



Clouds 



Co-operation among Plan 



ters 



Cotton Notes: — 



Area Under Cotton in 

 Montserrat, 1916-1' 



Sea Island Cotton Mar- 

 ket 



Department News ... _. 

 Dominions Royal Commis 



sion 



E.xaminations in Practicil 



Agriculture, 1916 

 Gleanings 



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222 



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212 



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209 



223 

 220 



Page. 

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Goat'.s Milk 



Insect Notes: — • 



White Grubs Injuring 

 Sugar-cane in Porto 



Rico 218 



•KeH Bulletin', Suspen- 

 sion of 217 



Lyons International Fair, 



1917 217 



Market Reports 224 



Notes and Comments ... 216 

 Porto Rico, Agricultural 



Piogress in 211 



Pruning 221 



Rice in Trinidad 21:^ 



Rice Plant, Correlative 

 (Characters of The ... 813 



Scientific and Industrial 

 Research 217 



Sugar Prices 216 



Swine Fever and Serum 

 Treatment 217 



Tannin, West Indian 

 Source of 213 



Turks Islands Agricultu- 

 ral Society 216 



West Indian Products ... 223 



Wheat Supply, British- 

 Grown 222 



The Dominions Royal Commission. 



• FTER inquiries extending over five years, the 

 Royal Commission on the natural resources, 

 Jaetual and potential, of the Self-Governing 

 Dominions of the Empire, with practical proposals for 

 their utilization, have issued their final report, which is 

 a valuable document: indeed, as Nature for April 30 

 truly remarks, it is qu te certain that no Blue Book of 

 such momentous importance a.s this as to the develop- 



ment of the resources of the British Empire as a whole 

 has ever before been published. 



Broad, however, as the scope of the incjuiry was, ib 

 could not be kept within the limits originally prescribed. 

 As the Commissioners state: 'For Empire purposes no 

 survey can be complete without including India, the 

 Crown Colonies and the Protectorates. In themselves, 

 and even as now developed they form too vital and 

 important a pirt of the Empire to be left out of 

 present c ilculations. But it is plainly evident thab 

 their potentialities, measured by any fair standard, are 

 immense, and that their future contributions to the 

 Empire "s strength and greatness will far surpass those 

 of the past. These parts of Your Majesty's oversea 

 possessions are vitally linked with the self-governing 

 Dominions: the destinies of all are interwoven.' The 

 report, therefore, deals with the problems connected 

 with the reconstruction and development of the Empire 

 as a whole. 



Among the recommendations of the report are— 

 the creation of an Imperial Development Board 

 to be charged with the duty of promoting the develop- 

 ment of the national resources, trade and communica- 

 tions of the Empire. To control and supervise emigra- 

 tion in co-operation with a consultative board includ* 

 ing colonial representatives the creation of a Central 

 Emigration Authority is recommended, and the question 

 of land settlement for ex-soldiers and their families is con- 

 sidered. Communication between all parts of the Empire 

 should, it is suggested, be improved by developing and 

 deepening harbours, the provision of speedy steamship 

 services, the controlling of freight rates and reduction of 

 cable rates. Recommendations are made for the improve* 

 ment of the commercial intelligence system in varioas 



