. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. \ XIV. No. 337. BARBADOS, MARCH 27, 1915. Peii k Id. CONTENTS. Page. Banana, Ripening, t !ha igi - .. ... ue Tour in the West Indies 104 Notes ml (rdinauce, Mont- it W est Indian Cotton 11 i uient News Notes: I'i Efficiency of Fun- Parasites of Scale Insects gleanings (] Nuts, W est Indian 103 Index to I he ' Agricultural News- 104 I ('..in i Meal Bread Inn Page. Indian Corn (Qontd.): Industrial lTses 101 K ili i >i \ hill in St.
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. \ XIV. No. 337. BARBADOS, MARCH 27, 1915. Peii k Id. CONTENTS. Page. Banana, Ripening, t !ha igi - .. ... ue Tour in the West Indies 104 Notes ml (rdinauce, Mont- it W est Indian Cotton 11 i uient News Notes: I'i Efficiency of Fun- Parasites of Scale Insects gleanings (] Nuts, W est Indian 103 Index to I he ' Agricultural News- 104 I ('..in i Meal Bread Inn Page. Indian Corn (Qontd.): Industrial lTses 101 K ili i >i \ hill in St. Vin- i - in ... 100 Insect Notes: \ Fruit Fly Attacking Papaw Fruits 10C Itemsof Local Interest ... 107 Lime Seeds, Feeding and Manuria] Value of ... 103 Market Reports 112 Notes md ' lomments ... 104 Origin of West Indian Economic Plants and Animals, 1 '.'7 110 Potash Deposits in 105 lOt " ash, German 105 Radium and Plant < Irowth 111 Soils, Recent Work on Physical Analysis of ... 109 Students' Corner 109 We-l Indian Bulletin'... I". 102 102 102 Origin of West Indian Economic Plants and Animals. [. T is difficult to find anything uiote'character- lly West Indian than the circumsl n |that nothing is indigenous. By considering ? ji:i cultivated and even wild plants, of animals, and even man himself with his Ktendanl culture, we readily discover thai the greal by of forms were i -e or less recently introduced ibroad. In i thercountrj issucha pronounc d condition of affairs to be witnessed, and to designate bhe Lesser Antilles a 'land oi exol ics' would in no sense appear to be an exaggerat ion. The information in this article has been selected principally to show the exotic origin ofsomeofour most rtant crops, domestic animals, and pests. A con- sideration of the sources from, and agencies through which they have been obtained will form the subject of a later article. Taking first the case of plants, we naturallj com- mence by considering the origin of the
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