A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



NEW YORK 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES, '"olfoet 



Vol. V. No. 118. 



BARBADOS, NOVEMBER 3, 1906. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Cacao and Rubber in 



St. Lucia 349 



Cacao in British Guiana ... 349 

 Cacao Industry in 



St. Vincent 349 



Cacao Land in St. Lucia... 345 

 Canada and the West 



Indies 337 



Cocoa-nut Growing in Cuba 340 

 Cotton Notes : — 



Cost of Growing Cotton 



in St. Kitt's 343 



Distance for Planting 



Cotton 342 



Sea Island Cotton in the 



United States 342 



Structure of the Cotton 



Fibre 343 



West Indian Cotton ... 342 



Depai'tment News 341 



Forest Products of British 



Guiana 350 



Fruit-canning Industry in 



the Straits Settlements 340 



Fungus Diseases of the 



Sugar-cane in Bengal 347 



Gleanings 348 



Industrial Enterprise in the 



West Indies 344 



Page. 



Insect Notes : — 

 Cotton Insects in 



Barbados 340 



Cotton Pests in Egypt 340 

 Jamaica, Agriculture in... 343 

 Jamaica, Exports of ... 345 



Market Reports 352 



Nitrogenous Manures, New 351 

 Notes and Comments ... 344 

 Rainfall in Antigua ... 347 

 Rubber Planting in 



Jamaica 345 



St. Vincent Arrowroot 345, 350 

 Stock, Isolation of, in 



St. Vincent 344 



Sugar Industry : — 



Java 339 



Molasses in Canada ... 338 

 Seedling Canes in 



St. Lucia 339 



Sugar-cane Experiments 



in Queensland 344 



Trinidad 339 



Varieties of Sugar-cane 



in Hawaii 338 



Tobago Botanic Station... 341 



Vegetable Hair 350 



West Indian Agricultural 



Conference, 1906 ... 340 

 West Indian Products in 



London Market ... 351 



Canada and the West Indies. 



EFERENCE was made in the last issue of 

 the Agricidtural News to the successful 

 exhibit of West Indian produce at the 

 CD exhibitions recently held in Canada. The advisability 

 of securing the adequate representation "of the West 



Indies at these exhibitions has been kept prominently 

 before the readers of this journal. It was considered 

 that this would be a means of still further extending 

 the very considerable trade at present carried on 

 between these islands and Canada. 



Much interest has been taken throughout the 

 West Indies in a meeting that was held at the 

 Halifax Board of Trade Rooms on October 4, when the 

 Imijerial Commissioner of Agriculture addresssed an 

 influential gatJiering of Canadians interested in the 

 development of trade with these islands, and drew 

 attention to the desirability of encouraging closer 

 commercial relations between the two countries. 



Sir Daniel Morris referred to the excellent exhibit 

 in the West Indian section at the Dominion exhibition, 

 explaining that the products shown were ail of 

 a mercantile character and could be shipped from the 



West Indies in large or small quantities. 



Years ago there was a large trade between Canada 

 and the West Indies, but it had fallen off: recently, how- 

 ever, the business had increased to a wonderful extent. 



Sir Daniel wished to dispel the impression that 

 the West Indies were ' played out.' That such an idea 

 was totally at variance with the facts was shown by the 

 way the islands had taken up and developed the cotton 

 industry. The West Indies were capable of producing 

 a great variety of products, none of which were produced 

 in Canada. There could, therefore, be no fear of the 

 two countries becoming rivals, since each required what 

 the other could produce. With wider markets an 

 increase of trade might confidently be expecsted. 



