A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



l^^W YORK 

 BOTANfCAL 



Vol. V. No. 115. 



BARBADOS, SEPTEMBER 22, 1906. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Assistance of Science in 

 Colonial Development, 

 The 289 



Bahamas, Land available 



for Cotton Growing in 298 



Banana, A new 292 



Banana Growing in Queens- 

 land 297 



Caniphcir, Cultivation of... 299 

 Cannini; Outfit, A cheap... ,303 

 Castilloa Rubber in Tobago 293 

 Cotton Notes : — 



Antigua, Prospects in ... 294 

 Montserrat, Prospects in 295 

 Nevis, Prospects in ... 294 



Seed Selection 296 



I'nited States Sea Island 



Crop 295 



West Indian Cotton ... 294 

 Cyclonic Disturbance in 



St. Kitt's 303 



Departmental Reports : — 

 Dominica ; Botanic 



Station, etc 302 



Virgin Islands : Experi- 

 ment Station 302 



Department News 303 



Dominica, Pine-apples from 292 



Fungus Diseases, Spread of 301 

 Gleanings 300 



Page. 



Insect Notes : — • 



Insect Pests in St. Kitt', 



Nevis 



Paris Green for Cassava 



Caterpillars 



Instruction in Budding 



and Grafting 



Lime Planting in 



Dominica 



Market Reports 



Nitrogen in Rainfall 

 Notes and Comments ... 



Nutmeg 



Urange Planting in 



Dominica 



Oranges in Trinidad, 



Budded 



Oranges, Jamaica 



Rice Cultivation in tlie 



United States 



Rubber in Uganda 



Scliiiol Gardens in Jamaica 

 Science, Developments of 

 Silica in the Nutrition of 



Cereals 



Sugar Industry : — 

 Cane Farming in 



Trinidad ... 



Louisiana 



Queensland 



Trinidad Agricultural 



Society 



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The Assistance of Science in 

 Colonial Development. 



X his opening address, as President of the 

 Chemical Section of the British Associa- 

 tion, at its meeting held recently at York, 

 Professor Wyndham R. Dunstan drew the attention 

 of the members to the intimate relationship between 



science and the problems that await sohition in 

 connexion with the utilization of the raw materials and 

 economic products of Great Britain's colonies, and 

 especially those of her tropical possessions. He urged 

 that the Imperial Government should recognize much 

 more fully than it had hitherto done, and at least as 

 fully as foreign Governments were already doing, the 

 claims of scientific investigation to be regarded as the 

 pioneer instrument of that work, and as the essential 

 first step in the material and commercial development 

 of those possessions. His plea was that the scientific 

 method of experimental research should be systemati- 

 cally applied in each division of the sciences concerned. 



Wide interests were involved, Professor Dunstan 

 said, in the proper solution of the problem of colonial 

 development. Many food commodities and raw 

 materials for the manufactures were derived almost 

 exclusively from the tropics, and experience had shown 

 that it was a great disadvantage to the manufacturer 

 not to be able to exercise control in the direction of 

 securing the regular production of these materials, and 

 not to be able to avoid great and sudden fluctuations 

 in price as a result of financial speculation on a foreign 

 market. He instanced the disastrous effects on the 

 cotton trade which resulted from its being at the mercy 

 of American speculators, in consequence of its almost 

 entire dependence on the cotton crop of the southern 

 states of America. 



The great principle which must now guide the 

 system of administration in tropical possessions had as 

 its purpose the utilization of natural resources and the 

 creation and development of native industries with the 

 aid of European supervision and advice. Territories 



