A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPEIIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



V-QL. XVl. No. 409. 



BAKBADOS, DECEMBER 29, 1917. 



Peick Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Agriculture among hf 

 Aborigines of Auieica 



Agriculture in Barbalos 



Antigua, Veterinary te- 

 port from 



Barl>ados Agricultural nd 

 Industrial Exhibitioi... 



Page. Page 



Gleanings 4I:i 



41)'.) Hibiscus Waimeae 408 



405 Hogs, The Healtli of ... 409 



Insect Notes: — 

 411 The Production of Liglit 



in Certain Animals 410 



408 



Cacao Fields, Hints or 

 Improving the Proac- 

 tion of 411 



Compressed Graiji ... 407 



Corn for Seed, Selecton 

 of 406 



Cotton in St. Vincnt, 

 Acreage under 407 



Cotton Outlook in lie 

 United States of Anirica 

 for l'.»17-18 407 



Cotton, Research Wor in 

 Connexion with 40H 



Education, Stimulatia of 

 Interest in 401 



Items of Local Interest ... 



Jamaica Hun-icane, Abnor 

 mality of 



Mangoes, Grafted, in East 

 Africa 



Market Reports 



Notes and Comments ... 



Pine-apple Seedlings ... 



Plant Diseases: — 

 Bacterial Diseases of 

 Tomatoes in St. Vin- 

 cent 



Potash from Kelp 



Sugar-cane Varieties in 

 St. Kitts 



Sugar Crop Prospects for 

 1918 



404 

 405 



411 



41(> 

 408 

 415 



414 



40S 



413 

 4i:i 



Stimulation )f Interest in Education. 



i X the eries of articles that have already 

 appearei on this subject reference has been 



*made t general education in elementary 

 and in secondan schools, and to the necessity in 

 rural schools for ensuring that the teaching there 

 jriven shall be Kch as will induce the pupils to be 

 observant of the atural phenomena of their surround- 

 ings in daily ife, which will lead ultimately to 

 a rational outlo« with regard to the maiu concerns 

 of rural communties, and their agricultural industries. 

 Reference has aso been made to the technical train- 

 ing that may begiven to the pupils of the secondary 

 schools, after thy have spent some years in acquiring 

 knowledge on boad hnmanis-tic lines. It is desirable 



now to say something with regard to technical 

 education in respect to pupils from elementary 

 schools, and to see what means are available for 

 enlarging the outlook of the more apt or better 

 equipped of the pupils from these schools. 



This matter was considered in the article in the 

 Wexl Indian Bulletin, Vol. XI Y, p. 172, to which 

 reference has already been made; it may be well 

 therefore to quote again from that article: — 



'Should it be desired to afiford training of a some- 

 what more advanced and technical character, some 

 institution other than the elementary school must be 

 looked to. 



'It must be remembered that the numbers that 

 are to receive this more advanced training will be very 

 much smaller than those attending the elementary 

 schools, and that the pupils so trained will stand out 

 above the ordinary agricultural labourer, and will look 

 for minor positions of trust carrying higher rates of 

 wages than those of agricultural labourers. 



'A system of training in some institution where 

 work is carried on for other than educational purposes 

 seems best calculated to meet the requirements of this 

 class. The system may appro.ximate to one of appren- 

 ticeship, though the use of this term, particularly in 

 some of the West Indian colonies, has connotations 

 rendering it undesirable. 



'In most colonies there are Botanic Gardens and 

 Agricultural Experiment Stations where there is 

 a considerable amount of routine work, much of which 

 is capable of being done by agricultural pupils drafted 

 from the elementary schools. The work carried on in 

 these institutions necessarily has a close connexion with 

 the agriculture of the neighbourhood, so that pupils 



