A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



OF THE 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. 



LIBRARY 

 NEW YORI 



BOTANICAi 



Vol. V. No. 121, 



BARBADOS, DECEMBER 15, 1906. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Agricultural Cretlit in ' 



Germany 395 



Agricultural Show at Bar- 

 bados 398 



Arbor Day at Barbados ... 395 

 Art Paper, Use in Printing 397 

 Barbados, Exports of ... 392 



Bees, Water for ,387 



British Honduras Botanic 



Station 392 



Broom Corn, Cultivation of 391 

 Broom Corn in Moutserrat 391 



Calabash Pipes 399 



Cotton Notes : — 



Barbados Cotton Indus- 

 try 391 



Cultivators in Cotton 



Fields 390 



Insurance of Cotton 



Shipments 390 



Sea Island Cotton in the 



United States 390 



Seasonable Notes 390 



Gleanings 390 



Guadeloupe, Museum of the 



Agricultural Institute 388 

 Insect Notes : — 



Digger Wasps 394 



Scale Insects on Cotton 394 

 Trapping Cotton Moths 394 



Demon Trade 388 



Lime Industry in the 



West Indies 393 



Page. 



Market Reports 400 



Mulching in Dry Weather 389 



Nitrates, New Source of 393 

 Notes and Comments ... 392 



(Mr Book Shelf : — 



Races of Dcimestic 



Poultry 397 



Tropical Hygiene 



Primer 397 



Packing Palm Seeds ... 389 

 Poultry Raising 385 



Rubber, Funturaia, in the 



Cameroons 393 



Rubber Trees in British 



Guiana 398 



Sisal Hemp at Montserrat 389 

 Straits Settlements, Agri- 

 culture in the... ,.. 393 

 Sugar Industry : — 



Central Sugar Mills in 



Queensland 386 



Hawaii 387 



Seedling Cane B. 376 



in Barbados 386 



Tomatos, Propagation V)y 



Cuttings 388 



Vegetable Milk 388 



West Indian Products ... 309 

 West Indies, Exports of 392 



Poultry Kaising. 



N all parts of the world poultry are raised 

 by agriculturists, and poultry raising is 

 considered an important adjunct to farniirg. 

 ^^ In many countries, where large numbers of the rural 

 ^ population live a somewhat isolated existence, it is 

 ~5 often impossible to obtain a daily supply of fresh meat 



for the table. In tropical countries, where meat can be 

 kept only a veiy short time, this is particularly the 

 case, and, consequently, the poultry 3'ard has to be 

 relied upon to supply a large proportion of the animal 

 food required by all classes of the community. 



The Imperial Department of Agriculture has never 

 lost sight of this fact, and for many years considerable 

 effort has been made to assist in improving the local 

 breeds of poultry. To this end, in many of the West 

 India Islands, birds of improved breeds have been 

 imported, and eggs from them distributed. Further, 

 in 1903, the Department issued a pamphlet (No. 23), 

 entitled ' Notes on Poultry in the West Indies,' (to be 

 obtained of all agents for the sale of the publications 

 of this Department, price 4c?., post free, 5d.), which 

 has proved to be of considerable assistance to poultry 

 raisers in these islands. This pamphlet was written by 

 Mr. John Barclay, the Secretary of the Jamaica Agri- 

 cultural Society, who has been for some 3'ears engaged 

 in the development of a poultry industry in Jamaica, 

 and has had personal experience in the keeping of 

 most of the breeds mentioned. It placed at their 

 disposal information in regard to the selection and 

 rearing of poultry, and the treatment of diseases, 

 exactly suited to the conditions existing in the West 

 Indies. One of its chief merits, as a guide to poultry 

 keeping in the West Indies, is that poultry raisers were 

 shown how they could make the most intelligent and 

 economical use of native food stuffs in preference to 

 those imjDorted from other countries. 



It is not suggested that there is any possibility of 

 the West Indies developing an export trade, other than, 

 perhaps, between certain of the islands themselves, in 

 eggs or fowls, but there can be no doubt that the 



