7O4 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS 



In concluding this section on current literature on 

 rubber growing and manufacture, the value of the 

 Colonial Reports, and for foreign intelligence, the 

 Consular and Diplomatic Reports should be noted. It 

 is necessary also to acknowledge here the international 

 publication, the Monthly Bulletin of Agricultural Intelli- 

 gence and Plant Diseases. As is well known, this 

 bulletin publishes abstracts of most of the important 

 papers that appear in connection with tropical agriculture, 

 and is of special service in that it obviates a great deal of 

 search and translation. The same remarks apply in a 

 somewhat less degree to the Experiment Station Record. 

 But this latter publication confines itself more to the 

 recordance of experimental work, consequently it cannot 

 be said that its perusal is of especial value to those 

 immediately interested in rubber growing. 



Finally, there is the Press in the Tropics and at home. 

 Grenier's Rubber Nezvs, the Ceylon Observer, and the 

 Demerara papers all devote space to matter pertaining 

 to the industry. In England there is the Times, in which 

 the accounts of Company meetings bring to light many 

 new and interesting facts which are well worth the atten- 

 tion of those connected with the industry. 



Cotton and Fibres. 



There are not many periodicals devoted entirely to 

 cotton, although there is a great deal of matter published 

 in the form of papers and reports. In England, the 

 Reports of the British Cotton Growing Association are 

 of interest and value as an indication of progress, 

 especially in Africa. The Textile Mercury, Textile 

 Institute Journal, Cotton and Cotton Gazette of Man- 

 chester are also useful journals, and should be more 

 widely read in the Tropics, as they help to keep the planter 

 in closer contact with the manufacturer. As would be 

 expected most of the important literature on cotton grow- 

 ing emanates from the United States, Egypt, India, West 

 Indies, and East and West Africa. The amount of 

 matter published by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture on cotton is large, the extent and nature of 

 which can be well gauged by reference to the indexes of 



