A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 





Vol. V. No. 102. 



BARBADOS, MAKOH 17, 1906. 



Price Ic?, 



CONTENTS. 



Agiicultural Don'ts 



Agricultural Ett'urts at 



St. Lucia 



Agricultural Prospects in 



Jamaica 



Agiiculturo in Trimdad ... 

 Antigua Agricultural 



Society 



Appointment vacant 



Cofi'ec in Brazil 



Colonial Exhibition, 1905 

 Cotton Notes : — 



Cotton in St Kitt's ... 

 Cotton in St. A^incent .. 

 Cotton, progress of West 



Indian 



Proportion of Lint to 



Seed 



Sea Island Cotton 



Sea Island Cotton Market 



Seed Selection 



Cotton for planting in 1900 



Copra 



Department News 



Education of the Estate 



Overseer 



Gleanings 



Inquiry for AVest Indian 



Products 



Insect Notes : — 



Acme I'owder I'ellows 

 Mango Weevil in Hawaii 

 l.s Sugar nil E.\[)losive 

 Liverpool Exhiliitiou 



AGE. 



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95 

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87 

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81 

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90 

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88 

 85 



Page. 

 ... 90 



Market Reports 

 Mosquit(_> Ordinance in 



British Honduras ... 89 



New Method of Packing 

 Seeds 88 



Notes and Connnents ... 88 



Our Book Shelf :— 



Atji-icultural Practices and 



Morals 93 



(^Hiaiterly Journal of the 

 Institute of Commer- 

 cial Research in the 



Tropics 93 



Plants in Bermuda 89 



Reports of Parish Inspec- 

 tors cif Trees 94 



Sugar Industry : — 



Central Factories 83 



Barbados Mola.sses ... 83 

 Imjiroved Sugar 



Machinerv 83 



Sugar Trade 83 



Tomatos at Montserrat ... 88 

 W'vst India Coniuiittee 



Circular 89 



West Indian Cotton Indus- 



tvy ... ^ 89 



West Indian Frint :— 



Barbados Bananas ... 84 

 The Wiiy to pack Oranges 84 

 West Indian Products : — 

 Drugs and Spices in the 

 London Market ... 95 



intend to enter upon a life work of agriculture in the 

 capacity of overseers upon West Indian sugar and 

 other plantations. 



For this purpose, in 1899, a lecturer in Agricultural 

 Science was provided by the Imperial Department of 

 Agriculture, as an addition to the scientific staff of the 

 Island Professor of Chemistry-, and a scheme of instruc- 

 tion has been carried out, covering for each pupil 

 a period of two years, and including Theoretical and 

 Practical Chemistry, Agricultural Botany, Agricultural 

 Physics, the Outlines of Physiology and Entomology, 

 the Principles of Agriculture, Technical Tropical Agri- 

 culture, Sugar-cane Planting, Sugar Manufacture and 

 Analvsis. 



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The Education of the Estate 

 Overseer. 



among the educational efforts 

 g^) of the Imperial Department of Agriculture, 

 has been the piovision for the scientific 

 training at Harrison College, Barbados, of lads who 



In order to bring this course within the reach of 

 the sons of those planters whose incomes were less 

 than £200 per annum, the Department granted 

 several agricultural exhibitions of values varying from 

 £1.5 to £30 per annum, to Barbados, and two exhibi- 

 tions of £75 i^er annum, one for the Windward and one 

 for the Leeward Islands, to defray the entire cost of 

 education at Harrison College, Barbados. 



At the end of the course, each pupil is examined 

 by examiners appointed by the Cambridge University 

 Syndicate. The examinations in the more general 

 subjects have been conducted by examiners at Cam- 

 bridge, while those in the more technical West Indian 

 subjects have been conducted by Mr. Cousin.s, the 

 Government Agricultural Chemist at Jamaica. The 

 reports of the examiners show that the subjects have 

 been efficiently taught, and that the pupils have 

 acquired a sufficient knowledge of their subjects to- 

 fit them to enter successfully and intelligently upon 

 a career of practical agriculture. 



