A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



GARDEN. 



Vol. Y. No. 99. 



BARBADOS, FEBRUARY .3, 1906. 



Price Id^ 



CONTENTS. 



Page, 

 Authi-ax, Inoculation for... 45 

 Harbiidos Cotton Industry 33 



Bordeaux Mixture 43 



Cacao Husks, Disjiosal of... 42 

 Canadian Exhib.tions, 1906 40 

 Cotton Notes :^ 

 Cotton Industry at 



St. Vincent 38 



Picking C(_itton from 



Dried up Plants ... 39 

 Prospects of West Indian 



Cotton Industry 39 



Sea Island Oott(jn in the 



West Indies 38 



Selection of Cotton Seed 38 

 Departmental Report : — 

 Sugar-cane Experiments, 

 Leeward Islands, 



Part I 4.5 



Durability of Bamboo ... 36 

 Education, Agricultural : — 

 Agricultural Scholarships 37 

 Agricultural School, 



St. Vincent 37 



Fiji, Agricultural Industry 



of 45 



Fungoid Diseases, Spread 



of 41 



Galls on Trees 43 



Gleanings 44 



Insect Notes : — 



Protection of Wood against 

 White Ants 42 



Page. 

 Insect Notes : — 



Scale Insects attacked by 

 Fungi 42 



Scale Insects on Cotton 42 



Locked Still in Jamaica ... 37 



Market Reports 48 



Mocha Coffee 47 



Notes and Comments ... 40 

 Our Book Shelf :— 



Grenada Handbook, 1906 45 

 Paris Green, BelL^ws for 



applying 46 



Remarkaljle Plant 



productions 40 



Rubber and Cotton 41 



Rubber Industry 46 



Rubber Planting in Jamaica 43 

 Sugar Industry : — 



British Guiana 35 



Queensland 35 



Trinidad 34 



Tea Experiments in India 41 

 Tobacco, Shade-grown in 



St. Kitt's 43 



Trinidad Crown Lands ... 39 

 West Indian Bulletin ... 41 

 West Indian Trade with 



Canada 47 



West Indian Fruit : — 



Oranges, Packing and 



Transport 36 



Jamaica 36 



Barbados Cotton Industry. 



CCORDING to the returns furnished by 

 the Comptroller of Customs during the 

 quarter ended December 31, 190.5, there 



[2] v'ere exported from Barbados, 167 bales and 7 bags of 



cotton, weighing 69,234 ft., of the estimated value 

 of £3,462. 



If to these figures are added the exports for the- 

 nine months ended September 30 last, published in the 

 Af)rlcultaral jVews (Vol. IV, p. 343), the total exports 

 from Barbados for the year 1905 areas follows: 958- 

 bales and 9 bags, containing 344,232 lb., of the 

 value of £17,212. 



This, it will be admitted, is a gratifying result for 

 an industry scarcely four years old, and reflects great 

 credit on those who have taken up cotton growing in 

 so earnest and successful a manner, and carried out so- 

 fully the advice tendered to them by the Officers of the 

 Imperial Department of Agriculture. It is hoped to 

 refer, at a later date, to the results obtained during the 

 year 1905 at St. Vincent and the Leeward Islands. 



In the above returns for Barbados it will be 

 noticed that the value of the cotton lint only is given. 

 In order to estimate the real value of the industry we 

 must take into account also the value of the seed. It 

 has been found by experience during the last three 

 years, that from every 100 ft. of seed-cotton there 

 are usually obtained 29 per cent, of lint, and 71 per cent, 

 of seed. The quantity of seed obtained from the seed- 

 cotton yielding 344,232 ft. of lint would therefore 

 be 842,774 ft. This seed, if sold to the Oil Factory 

 at ,?2400 (£5) per ton, would realize £1,888 3s. lOcl^ 

 making the total return for lint and seed obtained at 

 Barbados during 1905, £19,093 3d. lOd. If the seed 

 were exjiorted to the United Kingdom or elsewhere, 

 the net proceeds per ton would probably be less than 

 $2400 and, moreover, the land would be robbed of 

 a valuable fertilizer and its yielding qualities reduced. 



