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Referring to an account of experiments at the Hawaii 
Agricultural Experiment Station in growing cotton (Cara- 
vonica) from cuttings and by budding, the Barbados Agri- 
cultural Xews says : '‘As Sea Island cotton is only grown 
as an annual, these trials are not as important, in relation to 
it, as they are in connection with the Caravonica variety. 
The feasibility, however, of raising the first-mentioned kind 
from cuttings may be worth trying, as it may form a means, 
under certain conditions, of conserving a given strain in a 
certain district when, for any reason, circumstances have in- 
terfered with the continuation of its propagation from seed.” 
Dr. 'Gooding, in Barbados, has been experimenting in the 
direction of procuring hybrids between Sea Island cotton and 
the ordinary native cotton of the perennial type. The plants 
attained a large size, but the extra growth had been antici- 
pated, and allowed for, by setting them much farther apart 
than Sea Island cotton is usually planted. Under exactly 
similar conditions, the yield -of hybrid cotton was much 
higher than that from the ordinary Sea Island — in terms of 
weight per acre being more than twice as great. A special 
report on the cotton showed that the qualities of the two 
types were practically the same, as the lint was of excellent 
length, strength and fineness, and the same price was ob- 
tained for both kinds. The Agricultural News cautiously ob- 
serves that "further experiments are required to show if 
heavy bearing is a definite property of the strain obtained, 
or whether it is due to the stimulus of crossing and a greater 
immunity from disease of the hybrids.” 
Practical articles by specialists in any line of agricultural 
industry would be cordially welcomed by this magazine. 
From five hundred to two thousand words would be appro- 
priate for length, only let each article contain something 
complete and definite in useful information to readers need- 
ing it on the particular subject. Some of our exchanges 
excel The Forester and Agriculturist, more than anything 
else, in the variety of topics discussed by contributors. This 
magazine goes to all quarters of the globe, and might be made 
a great promotion medium for Hawaii if the leading men 
engaged in our diversified industries let the outside world 
know through its pages (something about what they are 
doing. That an elucidation of their methods and results ob- 
tained therefrom would attract attention is certain, judging 
from the frequency with which reports of the work of ex- 
perts at the government and the sugar planters’ experiment 
stations here are quoted by agricultural periodicals in for- 
eign lands. 
