Vol. XVI. No. 403. 



THE AGRICULTUKAL NEWS. 



October 6, 1917. 



THE BEST MANURE FOR COLONIAL USE 



IS- 



Dissolved (Soluble) Guano 



FOR SUa^l^-OAlNrE AND aENEI^AL USE. 



T?IADE ••> 



MARK. 



The 



APPLY TO LOCAl AGENTS OR DIRECT TO:- 



Anglo- Continental Guano 

 Works, Ltd. 



Dock House, Billiter Street, London, E.C. 

 Barbados Agents: James A. Lyneh & Co., Ltd., Bridg-etowiir 



Department of Science and Agriculture, 



BRITISH G^UIANA. 



GOVERNMENT LABORATORY. 



1st ASSISTANT ANALYST. 



Salary, 81,^00 per annum risiny to Sl,iM' by S7^. 



(On the Fixed EstahlishiMnl.) 



Applications are invited from candidates for the above 

 post, vyho should be between twenty-three and thirty-six year.s 

 of age. Experience in the examination of food-stuffs for 

 adulteration, of spirits for strength, ob.scuration, and purity, in 

 the polarization of sugars and molasses, in the analyses of soils, 

 manures, and agricultural product.s generally is es-sential. 



Candidates must submit with their applications, details 

 of their training and experience in Chemistry and Physics 

 and in practical analytical work, accompanied, if feasible, by 

 copies of their diplomas from the icstitution? where trained, and 

 of testimonials issued by an official laboratory or by an 

 analyst of standing, copies of satisfactory certificates of 

 health and of character, together with copi's of not more than 

 three testimonials from their present and former employers. 



DUTIES. To control, under the direction of the Govern- 

 ment Analyst, the routine work of the Gove nment Laboratory, 

 and to make analyses ol samples .submitted, 'inder the Sale of 

 Food and Drugs Ordinance, the Customs ', rdinance, and the 

 Spirits Ordinahce, as well as of sugars, other sugar-cane 

 products, soils, manures, and agricultural and mineral products. 



Applications should be addressed to the Director of 

 Science and Agriculture on or before October 31, 1917. 



J. B. HARRISON, 

 Director of Scieuci &. Agriculture. 



BORDEAUX MIXTURE. 



For use in raising the above, we stock 



SULPHATE OF COPPER. 



Bordeaux is recognized as the best mixture lor destroy- 

 ing fungous pests on the rind of the cane plant prior to 

 planting. 



Assure a good spring, by using this mixture. 



To be obtained from 



THE BARBADOS CO-OPERATIVE 



COTTON FACTORY, LIMITED, 



WHITE PARK, 

 BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS. 



JUST ISSUED. 



WEST INDIAN BULLETIN, 

 VoL XVI, No. 3. 



Containing papers which deal principally with Cotton 

 Cultivation and Cotton Pests; and Notes on the Hurricanes of 

 last year in the West Indies, etc., etc. 



To be obtained from the agents for the sale 

 of the publications of this Department. 



PRICE 6d. each. — POST FREE, 8d. 



Printed at Office of Agfimdtuml Reporter, i, High Street, Bridgetown, Barbados, 



