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dance of hosts and apparently no natural enemies, and it remains 

 to be seen how they will survive in the struggle for existence 

 which will come later." 



According to the Barbados Agricultural Reporter, a commit- 

 tee has been appointed with Professor J. B. Harrison, C. M. G., 

 at its head, to consider and report to the Demerara government 

 with respect to a recommendation made by the flour substitute 

 committee that a sum of $15,000 be provided annually for the 

 erection and carrying on of a factory or factories for converting 

 raw vegetable products into non-perishable and marketable prod- 

 ucts and placing them in the market. This liberal and fore- 

 sighted proposition in the colony named is only one of hundreds 

 of symptoms of the world's awakening, through the grim stimu- 

 lus of the greatest war of history, to the possibilities of increas- 

 ing both the quantity and the variety of articles of human sub- 

 sistence. 



In view of the territory-wide activity in raising garden truck 

 and other foodstuffs as a war-protective matter, the advice of ex- 

 perts cannot be too earnestly sought and appreciated. Regard- 

 ing sw^eet potato culture in St. Lucia, W. I., A. J. Brooks is 

 quoted by the Agricultural 'News as saying that much better re- 

 sults would be obtained if all the leaves were removed from the 

 cuttings before being planted out. "To produce heavy yields of 

 all root crops," the same authority says, "the land must be worked 

 to a deep tilth to provide sufficient space for the tubers to swell. 

 One deep, broad bank would yield more potatoes than two shal- 

 low ©nes." 



In a letter to Tropical Life (London) from H. J. Moors, a 

 long-established business man in Samoa, the following item 

 appears : "We note that the lantana plague can now be over- 

 come by engaging small colonies of flies to over-run the trees and 

 bushes and eat the seeds as fast as they are produced. The in- 

 sect comes from Honolulu, and has been successfully translated 

 to Fiji, where his activities are just the same." Lantana, once 

 "a holy terror" in Hawaii, is never mentioned here nowadays. 

 The pest seems to have been effectually "done for" by the insect 

 in question. 



Occasionally the local daily press contains mention of a de- 

 mand from abroad for kukui nut oil. For the benefit of home- 

 steaders and others in Hawaii who may have become interested 

 in the commercial possibilities of such a product, an article on 

 the candlenut tree as known in Ceylon is reprinted in this num- 

 ber from the Tropical Agriculturist of that country. 



The address of Dr. V. S. Norgaard, Territorial veterinarian, 

 before the Hawaiian Medical Association last year, is reprinted 

 by the Tropical Agriculturist (Ceylon) for May from the 

 Forester. 



