A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. TZ'^!' 



Vol. V. No. 105. 



BARBADOS, APUIL 28, 1906. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



A Blazing Beach 13(5 



Aiitlirax 142 



Appiiiiitineiit A'acaiit ... 130 



Bi-itish Hundura.s 130 



Cacac-) frnin Turtula ... 141 



Cassava Cuttings loll 



Cotton Ncites : — 



Cotton Experinit-nts in 



the Transvaal 



Cotton Seed and Cotton 



Seed Cake 



Sea Island Cotton 



Market 



Seasonable Notes 

 Utilization of Cotton 



Seed 



Department News 



Educational : — 



Lectures to Teachers in 

 Antigua 

 serrat 

 Germination 



Seeds 



Gleanings 



How to get rid of Mos 



quitos 



Hurricane Insurance . . 

 Insect Notes : — 



Cacao Beetle in Grenada 138 

 Cottc^n Insects in the 



Transvaal 



Moth attacked by 



Fungus 



White Ants attacking 



Sugar-canes 1.'58 



Kickxia Rubber 143 



and Mont- 

 of Galba 



134 



134 



135 

 134 



134 

 143 



133 



143 

 140 



139 

 129 



138 

 138 



Page. 

 .. 144 

 .. 13G 



141 



Market Reports 



Notes and Comments ... 

 Our Book Shelf :— 



Bulletin of the Agri- 



cultm-al Department, 



British Honduras ... 



Seedling Canes and 



Manurial Experiments 



at Barbados 141 



Plantation Rubber 137 



Rubber Consumption and 



Natural Rubber ... 137 

 Rubber in British Guiana 143 

 Science Notes : — 

 Industrial Production 

 of Nitrogen from the 



Air 



Supply of Nitrogen to 



Plants 



Sugar Industry : — 



History of the Sugar 



Industry 



Mexican Sugar Industry 

 Mutual Control in 



Sugar Making 



Tobacco Growing in 



British Honduras ... 

 Treatment of Anthrax ... 

 West Indian Fruit : — 

 Awards for Jamaica 



Fruit 



Budded Oranges 



Fruits and Vegetables 



in Jamaica 



West Indian Products in 

 Canada 



135 



135 



131 

 131 



131 



141 

 142 



1.32 

 132 



133 



143 



Hnmcane Insurance. 



ANY of the readers of the Aijrlcultund 

 News arc aware that, for some time past, 

 the matter of insurance against the effects 

 of hurricanes has been under consideration. 



The Hon. II. Hesketh Bell, C.M.G., then Adminis- 

 trator of Dominica, issued a memorandum in July of 

 last year, intended to show that, in view of the fact 

 that hurricanes were not of so frequent occurrence in 

 the West Indies nor so serious in the amount of 

 damage done as had been generally supposed by those 

 unacquainted with West Indian conditions, under- 

 writers might safely undertake the risk in such a class 

 of insurance. 



Matters have now so far progressed that an 

 insurance firm, Messrs. Henry Head & Co., 27, Corn- 

 hill, has made arrangements for issuing hurricane 

 insurance, and a representative of the firm, Mr. Chris- 

 topher Head, is at present in the West Indies for the 

 purpose of submitting to planters, and others, the 

 scheme proposed, with a view to making it better 

 understood. He will receive and forward to his 

 principals any suggestions of modifications to the 

 scheme, which may be made to render it more useful 

 or more acceptable to those for whose use it is 

 intended. 



The scheme, as it now stands, provides that 

 insurance may be effected on buildings, cultivations 

 (except bananas), and crops, at the rate of li per 

 cent. (30s. per cent.), with i per cent, additional for 

 insurance against earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, 

 or 2 per cent, for an inclusive insurance. On sugar 

 estates the buildings alone may be insured at the rate 

 of 1 per cent., provided they are of approved design. 



It will be seen from this that the underwriters are 

 prepared to insure buildings of all sorts; also cultiva- 

 tions of canes, cacao, cotton, tobacco, rubber, arrowroot, 

 coffee, oranges, cocoa-nuts, vanilla, limes, and spices; 

 in fact, cultivations of all kinds except bananas. 



