must be ready to abandon if necessary the cultivation of the Bourbon 
variety. Your Commission ee that every estate should be 
by having such an amount of cane varieties planted as will serve 
to supply, if occasion darai a cesar of plants to plant the whole 
estate in those varieties. 
SERIOUS CHARACTER OF THE ATTACKS OF THE Motu Borer. 
Moth Borers of one kind or nra have been recognised as destroyers 
in every sugar-producing country; in India, Mauritius, Java, and other 
East Indian islands; in Queensland, Louisiana, and all over the West 
Governm on, was of this nature, and your Commission have 
the conclusion that Diatrea Saccharalis is by far the most 
serious insect this island, and in the months of October to 
upon the Seen have held the view that this inest was the parasite 
most to be fea 
Of all nie enemies of the sugar-cane the Moth Borer is certainly 
the most serious one in Barbados. It attacks all varieties of caues and 
hence is not only constantly exposing them to the attack of "fangi or 
bacteria, but would in many cases carry the very sporesinto its burr ows, 
besides which, the injury suffered by any cane by the actual attack at 
least leads to impoverished juice, if not to actual death of the plant. 
A glance at any of the literature of the cane diseases will convince any 
to checking the spread of this pest d a very interesting compilation 
upon the subject was made by Mr, T. D. A. Cockerell, late of Jamaica 
e of Rev. L. Guilding has not to the presen been 
i is the most destructive and common 
insect en of the sugar-cane. As Mr. Cockerell remarks, “no one 
can doubt c that i in these days of severe competition, when sugar is by 
means as profitable as — a comparatively small gain or loss, 
much less than that enumerated by Mr. Van n Patten, may make all =d 
difference between success and failure.” The same insect- 
also say that the application of insecticides as manures to the soil is is 
not applicable to the present case “as the life history of Diat 
Saccharalis is well known and there is no reason to suppose that at wy 
= it lives in the soil.” 
REMEDIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS. 
i That a — EE committee of planters and obe. who 
interest of the [sland as proprietors and attorneys, and 
whi are divise to emet measures, be appointed to see that these 
measures are carried out. 
2. That from this central committee the planters from each parish, 
out. 
re MES all plants belote Seay be be soaked in Queensland solution* 
solution which the Island Professor of Chemistry, with the 
nT of the central committee, certifies to be equally efficacious. 
* One pint of carbolic acid to 160 gallons of water. 
