. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. IV. No. 87. BARBADOS, AUGUST 12, 1905. Price Id. CONTENTS. Page. Baiianu Trade of Great Britain 244 Bee Keeping in California 244 Castilloa Rubber . 249 Cocoa-nut Meal as a Feeding-stuif . Cold Storat;e for Royal Mail Steamers . 248 Colonial Fruit Exhibi- tions . 244 Costa Rica Banana Trade 249 Cotton Ni_ites:— Feeding Cotton Seed to Pigs . 240 Ratooning Cotton . 246 St. Vincent Crop . 247 Departmental Reports :— St. Vince


. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. IV. No. 87. BARBADOS, AUGUST 12, 1905. Price Id. CONTENTS. Page. Baiianu Trade of Great Britain 244 Bee Keeping in California 244 Castilloa Rubber . 249 Cocoa-nut Meal as a Feeding-stuif . Cold Storat;e for Royal Mail Steamers . 248 Colonial Fruit Exhibi- tions . 244 Costa Rica Banana Trade 249 Cotton Ni_ites:— Feeding Cotton Seed to Pigs . 240 Ratooning Cotton . 246 St. Vincent Crop . 247 Departmental Reports :— St. Vincent Tobago 253 Department News 253 Educational : — British (iuiana . Jamaica English Hares at Barliados Gleanings Goats at Barbados ... Grafting Cacao Insect Notes :— Pests at Barbados Wild Bees . 251 251 . 249 . 252 . 245 ,. 244 . 250 ,. 250 Page. Jamaica at the Colonial Exhibition 245 Java, E,xp<jrts of 249 Market Reports 25<5 Notes and Comments .. 248 Oleanders in the West Indies 243 (3ur Book Shelf :— Jamaica Cookery Book 254 Souvenirs of Jamaica ... 254 Para Rubber Planting ... 244 Rainfall Returns 247 Rats and Mice, Extermina- tion of 247 Rubber Planting in Samoa 254 Sisal Hemp 250 Sisal Hemp in British Guiana 250 Sugar Industry :— British Guiana 242 Trinidad 243 Sugar Plant, A New ... 248 Tobacco Growing in Jamaica 249 Toljago Planters' Associa- tion 245 Treatment of Orchard Soils 241 Trinidad Trade Statistics 248 West Indian Produce Stall 255 West Indian Products ... 255 Wireless Telegraphy ... 251 Treatment of Orchard iSoils. T is desired to draw the special attention of cacao and lime planters in the West Indies to the question of the treatment of soils in their plantations. This matter, being one of great importance, has received the serious consideration of Dr. Francis Watts, , the Superintendent of Agriculture for the Leeward Islands, whose notes in this connexion have appeared from time to time in the Agricultural News an


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