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various processes connected with the cotton industry are of 
particular interest since there is not a particle of waste material left 
over in the factory. 
At the co-operative factory I had the further interest of seeing 
the cotton being baled by a powerful hydraulic press and the sewing 
up of the bales and the binding with steel hoops. 
Under the guidance of Mr. Bovell the Experiment Station of the 
Local Department of Agriculture was then visited and the various 
plots of sugars, cotton, yams, &c., were examined, Among the cottons 
a good variety found near a native hut was being used for selection 
purposes and we were also shewn some diminutive plants as well as 
some tall specimens the offspring of a self-fertilized hybrid. Large 
numbers of sugar cane seedlings in the nursery were also examined. | 
The gardens in and around Bridgetown were gay with Caesalpinia 
pulcherrima, Bougainvillea, Hibiscus, &c., and at Mr. Bovell’s 
ouse a Beaumontia was in full flower, as fine a sight as a great 
white Himalayan Rhododendron. The small proportion of uncul- 
tivated and uncultivable land in Barbados as well as the dense 
population are the remarkable features of the island. Tilled ground 
planted with sugar, cotton, maize, and Guinea grass, stretches away 
on all sides, and around the native huts appear small patches of other 
produce such as tanias, yams, okras, cassava and papaws. 
piesa behind. This sugar which is quite dry is then bagged for 
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internodes. In the case of a long-cultivated variety such, for 
instance, as “ White Transparent,” it is often found in Barbados 
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discarded before planting as no shoots can be developed from them, 
