A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW S^^vo^k 



OF THE f^OTAN.'CAL 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. ^^'^»^^'- 



Vol. V. No. 104. 



BARBADOS, APRIL 14, 1906. 



Pkice Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Agricultural Shows : — 



Antigua 117 



Dominica 117 



Appointment Vacant ... 114 



Cacao Industry in Grenada 119 



Cotton Notes : — 



Cotton Industry 118 



Disinfection of Cotton 



Seed 119 



.St. Vincent Cotton ... 119 

 Sea Island Cotton ... 118 

 Selection of Seed for 

 Planting 118 



Cotton Seed for Planting 113 



De]iartuieut News 



Educati(inal : — 



Agi'icultural Instruction 



in Elementai-y 



Schools 



Science Teaching at 



Harrison College ... 



Oleanings 



Insect Notes : — 



Mole Crickets 



Institute of Couniiercial 



Research in the 



Tropics 



Market Reports 



Notes and Counuents ... 



127 



122 



123 

 124 



122 



12(i 

 128 

 120 



Page. 

 Notes on Agriculture in 



Dominica 



Official C'orres])ondence. 

 Priedial Larceny in 



Dominica 



Royal Botanic Gardens, 



Ceylon 



Rubber Cultivation for 



Settlers in the 



Tropics 



Rul)l)er Trees at Grenada 125 

 St. Vincent Botanic 



Gardens 



Science Notes 



Seeds and Plants, Jauiaicii 

 Selection of Cocoa-nuts... 

 Sugar Industrj- : — 

 Canadian Taritl' and 



Molasses 



West Indian Seedling 



t'anes in Queensland 115 

 Treatment of .\nthrax ... 125 

 West Indian Fruit : — 

 Curious Banana Stem... 

 West Indian Fruit 



Industry 



West Indian Products : — 

 Drugs and Spices in the 



London Market 



115 

 123 



121 



121 



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12G 

 114 

 121 

 127 



115 



IIG 



IIG 



127 



Cotton Seed for Plantinc;. 



N tlie previous nmiiber of the At/rivtdfu ml 

 ■■■^ Xeu's. it \vas annomiced that the Imperial 

 Department of Agricuittire was prepared 

 -^ to undertake to supply planters throughout the West 

 f^ Indies with speciall}- selected and disinfected cotton 

 ^ seed for planting during the coming season. The 

 <X Department is so imjjressed with the importance of 



planting only the best seed, as a means of maintaining 

 the high standard of cpiality of the cotton produced in 

 these islands, that it will supply such seed, and deliver 

 it an}- port, at cost price. 



It is hoped by such means to make it tolerably 

 certain that no inferior seed will be planted during 

 the year 1906, and, with that view, the hearty co-opera- 

 tion of all who arc interested in the success of the 

 cotton industry is invited, in support of the policy 

 which the Department has consistently advocated since 

 cotton planting has been taken up, in these Colonies, on 

 systematic lines. 



Among other matters, it should be borne in mind, 

 that the casual purchase or exchange of cotton seed 

 between individual planters in the several islands, unless 

 such seed is properly disinfected before it is shipped, is 

 likely to lead to the introduction of diseases into locali- 

 ties where they have not hitherto existed. If, for 

 instance, the leaf-blister mite were introduced into Bar- 

 bados, or the cotton worm into St. Vincent, the favourable 

 conditions now existing in those islands for growing 

 cotton would be seriously affected, especially as a new 

 disease is generally much more destructive than one 

 that has existed in a locality for some time. 



Planters everywhere would do well this year to 

 plant no seed except such as is supplied through 

 the officers and recognized agents of the Department. 

 They should even discard their own seed, unless the 

 cotton produced from the plants yielding it has 

 obtained prices ranging from 18(/. to 20(7. per lb., and 

 the vigour and yield of the plants have been corres- 

 pondingly satisfactory. 



