A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES, "ol'o'^r-'^ 



Vol. V. No. 106. 



BARBADOS, MAY 12, 1906. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page, 



Anthrax in Great Britain 158 

 Canadian Exhibi- 



tiuns, 1900 



■ Cotton Notes : — 



Cotton at Anguilla .. 

 Drought and Cotton . . 

 St. Vincent Cotton .. 

 West Indian Cotton .. 



Department News 



Dominica, Agricultuva! 

 Efl'ortsat... ... .. 



Dominica, Exports of .., 

 Fruit-canning Industry, . 



Gleanings 



Guinea Fowl 



Hi igs for Small Farmers . . , 



Imperial Department of 



Agriculture and 



Antigua 



Incubator Trials at 



St Lucia 



Insect Notes : — 



Acme Powder Bellow.s 154 

 Two Tree Borers ... 154 

 Judging Fruit and Vege- 

 tables at Shows 

 Lime Cultivation .. 

 Mango, Varieties of 

 Manjak, Barljados 

 Trinidad 



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Market Reports 160 



Notes and Conuuents ... 152 



Orange Growing in 



Jamaica Plains ... 153 

 Our Book Shelf :~ 



Ce3'lon Handbook and 



Directory 157 



Fruits and other Food 

 Products of Jamaica 157 

 Rubber Trees and Cacao 153 

 Steam Ploughing in tlie 



West Indies 149 



.Sugar Industrj' : — 



Naudet Ditfusion Pro- 

 cess in Trinidad ... 147 

 Sugar-cane Experiments 



in Cuba ... , 147 



Sugar-cane Cultivation in 



Cuba 140 



Tobago, Exports of ... 155 

 Tobago, Hints to Settlers 152 

 Tomatos, Bacterial Dis- 

 ease of 151 



Tropical Soils, Fertility of 153 

 West Indian Bulletin ... 152 

 West Indian Products : — 

 Drugs and Spices in 



London 159 



Molasses in Canada ... 159 



Canadian Exhibitions, 1906. 



(^^■- HE auniuil general exhibition at Toi-onto is 

 )l to be held this year from August 25 to 

 September 8, and the Dominion exhibition 

 is to be held al; Halifax from September 22 to October 15. 



Both these e.\hibitions are largely assisted by the 

 Dominion Government and are patronized by manu- 

 facturers, produce merchants, and others, all over the 

 Dominion, as well as from the United States. The 

 Toronto exhibition, especially, is very largely attended, 

 ' on some days as man}' as 90,000 to 100,000 people 

 passing the gates." 



In a letter from Messrs. Pickford & Black, 

 published in the Agricultural Neus (Vol. IV, p. 397), 

 it is stated : 'these exhibitions form the very best means 

 of placing the products and resources of the West 

 Indies before the Canadian public, and with this end in 

 view we are jji'cpared to assist in every possible way.' 



Messrs. Pickford & Black offer to carry all 

 exhibits from the Went Indies to Toronto and Halifax 

 free of charge. They also undertake to arrange for the 

 necessary space and the proper showing of the exhibits. 

 The exhibitors would thus only have to provide the 

 exhibits and pay a share of the cost of erecting booths 

 and stalls for their accommodation. 



Messrs. Pickford & Black add, in regard to 

 previous exhibitions in which they took so active 

 a part, ' nothing has ever been done which has so 

 effectually brought the resources of the West Indies 

 before the people of Canada.' 



As is well known, the Dominion Government offers 

 preferential rates for produce grown in these British 

 colonies, and, on this and other grounds, it is desirable 

 that closer commercial relations should be cncom-aged 

 between the West Indies and Canada. The trade 

 already built up, chiefly by means of the Canadian line 



