. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST iNDIES. ?'-"?1 Vol. XVIII. No. 455. BASBADOS, OCTOBER 4, 1919. Peici Id. CONTENTS. Page. Pagb. Rats TrouVjlesainc in Trinidad 315 Cane Sugar Industry, The Rise and Progi-ess 313 Cane wrsUS Beet 312 Cooo-uut Oil Siiipping in Bulk 309 >3oiv Fil)i'e, Mechanical Properties of 311 Colonial Credit Societies, Position of ... ... 318 Cotton, Conuiiunity Pro- duction of ... ... 310 Cuba Association, A Big .306 Cultivating, Val
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST iNDIES. ?'-"?1 Vol. XVIII. No. 455. BASBADOS, OCTOBER 4, 1919. Peici Id. CONTENTS. Page. Pagb. Rats TrouVjlesainc in Trinidad 315 Cane Sugar Industry, The Rise and Progi-ess 313 Cane wrsUS Beet 312 Cooo-uut Oil Siiipping in Bulk 309 >3oiv Fil)i'e, Mechanical Properties of 311 Colonial Credit Societies, Position of ... ... 318 Cotton, Conuiiunity Pro- duction of ... ... 310 Cuba Association, A Big .306 Cultivating, Value of 317 Denierara Lime Juice and Rice Factory 310 316 Hevea Rubber Trees, Effect of Lightning on 309 Insect Notes :— Control of the Onion Thrips 315 Proteciion against Wee- . ? vilin Corn 314 Items of Local Interest ... 308 Market Reports 320 Milk Adulteration Penal- ties ? 301» Moon and Crops, The ... 309 Notes and Comments ... 312 Pen Manure, New Facts concerning ... ... 307 Physiology, Recent Work in 311 Pine-aople Culture in Cuba — 311 Port of Bridgetowji "' ? 313 Rubber Seed Oil 309 St. Lucia Prize Holdijigs Competition, 1918-19 .. 319 Sponges from the British Virgin ... 313 Sweet Potato Experi- ;! 305 Trinidad Exports ... 315 Venereal and Other Diseases ... ... 317 Volcano, A Great, Model of 312 Weather in St. Croix ... 317 Sweet Potato Experiments. .N the West Indies, a large amount of work has been done with the object of intro- ducing into general cultivation improved varieties or strains of sweet potato. The interest shown by growers—both large and small—in this work has not been as great as it deserves. In the West Indies, the sweet potato is the staple vegetable. The poorer classes are largely dependent upon it for tkeir food supply. It is therefore. eeonomiCdUy, a Tery important crop, quite as important, iti an economic sense, as sugar-cane or cotton, even though these last-named crops yield at present greater finan
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