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A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 





Tjl. XVI. No. 400. 



BARBADOS, AT'GUST 2.5, 1917. 



Price IJ 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Page. 



Agricultural and Commer- 

 cial Society, Antigua ... 



Agricultural Education and 

 Re.search 



Agriculture in Barbados... 



Agriculture, Tractors in ... 



Book Shelf .. 



British Honduras, Agri- 

 cultural Commission 

 in ... 



Coaling in the West 

 Indies 



Coco-nut Butter, Making 

 of 



Cotton Notes: — 



Sea Island Cotton 



Market 



The Industrial Uses of 



Cotton 



Department News 



Fish Meal for Stock Feed- 



264 



261 

 270 



270 



... 269 



Food Economy 



Foreign Islands and Brit- 

 ish Agriculture 



Gaseous Pressure in 

 Growth 



271 

 265 



260 



262 



262 



258 



265 

 265 



262 



267 



Gleanings 268 



Goa or Manila Bean ... 264 



Green Dressing and Fallow 259 



Insect Notes: — 



Insect Pests in British 



(xuiana in 1916 ... 266 

 Trapping of the Cotton 



Stainer 267 



Irrigation as Crop Insur- 

 ance 26:") 



Items of Local Interest ... 262 



.fapanese Sugar Industry 259 



Manure, Wastage in ... 259 



Market Reports 272 



Notes and Comments ... 264 

 Onion Industry in Mont- 



serrat 26(1 



Pellagra, Studies in Con- 

 nexion with 270 



I Sand Colic in Animals ... 270 

 I St. Kitts, Addresses on 



Agriculture in 264 



.Scientific and Industrial 



Research 257 



Scientific and Industrial 



Research in Canada ... 261 

 Standards for Foods ...271 



Scientific and Industrial Research. 



•HE war has directed attention, as never 

 'before, to the intimate relations between 

 [.science and modem industry, as well as to 

 »he imperative necessity for fostering these relations, 

 and, in a foreword contributed to a book on Warfare 

 Work, the British Premier observes: 'It is a strange 

 irony, but no small compensation, that the making of 

 weapons of destruction should atford the occasion to 

 humanize industry. Yet such is the case. Old preju- 



dices have vanished, new ideas are abroad; employers 

 and the State are ail favourable to new methods.' In 

 the work of reconstruction at the conclusion of peace, 

 co-ordination of science with industry, and the utili- 

 zation of the dependence of modern civilization on 

 science will be powerful agents. The British industrial 

 world is, by degrees, coming to see that the limits of 

 development attainable by accumulated experience 

 ha\e been reached, and that empirical facts are not 

 a safe or sufficient basis for full development in 

 agriculture or in any other industry. Research is now 

 regarded by those who have not a narrow conception 

 of life as essential to evolve both facts and the funda- 

 mental principles underlying facts. 



Up to the present the idea has prevailed to too 

 great a degree that pure science or research, and 

 industrial or applied science are antagonistic. Those 

 engaged in industrial pursuits have been inclined bo 

 consider that because pure science deals largely with 

 principles it is necessarily impractical. As was perti- 

 nently remarked many years ago by a distinguished 

 scientist, applied science is nothing but the application 

 of pure science to peculiar problems. How closely 

 allied they are is well illustrated by the research 

 work of Pasteur, resulting in the discovery of the gerat 

 theory, the discovery of which prevented the extinction 

 of the silk industry in France and was instrumental 

 in eradicating anthra.x. Pasteur's theory was als« 

 practically applied with beneficent effect to humanity 

 in surgical operations by Lister, who, by an inspi- 

 ration of genius, perceived the analogy between 

 the changes occurring in the fermenting liquid and 

 the suppuration in au open wound. There is no 

 reason, therefore, why pure and applied science 

 should in the future remain divorced; the benefit* 



