Agricultural Education. 



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[September, 1910. 



No. 29 ' Lectures on Diseases of the 

 Sugar-cane.' 



West Indian Bulletin. 



Root Disease ot the Sugar-cane, by F. 

 A. Stockdale, B,A., F.L.S. 



Insect Pests affecting Sugar-cane, by 

 H. A. Ballou, B.Sc. 



In addtion, students should read the 

 articles in the Agricultural News on the 

 Orders of Insects, in "Vols. VI and VII; 

 the series on the Natural History of 

 Insects in Vol. VIII, and those entitled 

 ' Fungus Notes.' 



Crop Subjects. 

 In addition to the general agriculture 

 on the lines indicated above, two crop 

 subjects must be prepared for the Inter- 

 mediate Examination. The selection of 

 the crops to be taken will be optional, 

 but they must be crops with which the 

 candidate has had practical expeiience. 



Sugar-cane Cultivation.— The pre- 

 paration and care of the soil, planting, 

 manuring, tending and reaping the crop. 

 The principal varieties of sugar-cane 

 and their characteristics. The princi- 

 pal fungoid diseases and insect pests of 

 the sugar-cane and the methods of con- 

 troling them. 



Sugar Manufacture, Modern Fac 

 tory Methods.— Students who elect to 

 be examined in this branch will be ex- 

 pected to be familiar with the general 

 principles underlying the factory method 

 of sugar manufacture, such as structure 

 and the working of the triple effect, the 

 vacuum pan, and the process of macer- 

 ation, etc. 



Sugar Manufacture, Muscovado 

 Method.— A good knowledge of the 

 general principles in this branch will be 

 expected of students who sit for it. This 

 will include a knowledge of tempering 

 lime juice, boiling sugar, etc., etc., the 

 use of taycbes, and steam-heated pans. 



Rum Manufacture.— In this branch, 

 students for the examination will be 

 expected to have some knowledge of 

 the processes of fermentation and distil- 

 lation, the life-history of yeasts, the 

 structure of stills, etc. 



Noel Deerr's Sugar and the Sugar-cane. 



Watts's Introductory Manual for 

 Sugar Growers. 



Lectures to Sugar Planters. (I.D.A.) 



West Indian Bulletin. Papers relat- 

 ing to the sugar industry. 



Pamphlets dealing with Experiments 

 with Sugar-canes in Barbados and the 

 Leeward Islands. 



Annual Reports of the Botanic and 

 Experiment Stations. 



Candidates who take the examination 

 on the Sugar Industry may be passed if 

 successful in the first part— Sugar-cane 

 Cultivation; but they may, if they so 

 choose, take any of the other parst 

 under this heading. They will be allow- 

 ed to take, in addition to Sugar-cane 

 Cultivation, either Sugar Manufacture, 

 Factory Methods, or Sugar Manufacture, 

 Muscavado Method, or Rum Manufac- 

 ture ; but will not be allowed to take two 

 of them at one examination, except that 

 the parts relating to Muscovado Sugar 

 and Rum may be taken if so desired. 



The subject in which the candidate i9 

 successful in passing will be mentioned 

 on the certificate. 



Cotton.— Preparation of the soil ; 

 planting and tending the growing crops. 

 A knowledge of the principal insects 

 and fungoid pests of cotton and the 

 means used in controlling them. Picking 

 cotton. The selection of cotton seed 

 and its preparation for sowing. An 

 elementary knowledge of the qualities 

 of cotton lint and the manner of ascer- 

 taining them. The uses of cotton seed. 



Pamphlet No. 45, ' A. B.C. of Cotton 



Planting.' 

 Pamphlet No. 60, ' Cotton Gins.' 

 West Indian Bulletin. 

 Annual Reports of the Botanic and 



Experiment Stations. 



Limes,— The planting and tending of 

 lime orchards. The chief pests attacking 

 limes, and the methods of controlling 

 them. Gathering the crop. Crushing 

 the fruit. The methods of dealing with 

 lime juice. The preparation of concen- 

 trated juice and citrate of lime. The 

 preparation of essential oil of limes. 

 The preparation and packing of lime 

 fruit for shipment. 



Pamphlet No. 53, ' A.B.C. of Lime. 



Cultivation.' 

 Botanic Station Reports. 

 West Indian Bulletin. 



Cacao. — The planting and tending of 

 cacao orchards. The chief pests atrack- 

 ing cacao, and the methods of controll- 

 ing them. The gathering of the crop. 

 The fermentation and preparation of 

 the cacao beans for mai'ket. 



Hart's Cacao. 



Wright's Cacao, its Botany, Cultiva- 

 tion, Chemistry and Disease. 



Pamphlet No. 58, 'Insect pest9 of 

 Cacao.' 



Pamphlet No. 61, 'The Grafting of 

 Cacao,' 



Reports on the Experiments with 

 Cacao at Dominica and Grenada. 



