. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. XV. No. 380. BARBADOS, NOVEMBER 18, 1916. Price Id, CONTENTS. Page. Agricultural Develninueiit in the Fedeiated Mala}' States 377 Barbados, Crop Conditions ill .371 Bombaj', Experimental Work in 379 Botanic-Gardens. A Useful Function of 375 British Cotton Growing Association 374 Deijartiiient News 373 Dominica, Record Shijiinent of Lime Jaice Products from 375 Gleanings 380 Insect Notes:— Methods of Controlling WhiteGrubs in Am
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. XV. No. 380. BARBADOS, NOVEMBER 18, 1916. Price Id, CONTENTS. Page. Agricultural Develninueiit in the Fedeiated Mala}' States 377 Barbados, Crop Conditions ill .371 Bombaj', Experimental Work in 379 Botanic-Gardens. A Useful Function of 375 British Cotton Growing Association 374 Deijartiiient News 373 Dominica, Record Shijiinent of Lime Jaice Products from 375 Gleanings 380 Insect Notes:— Methods of Controlling WhiteGrubs in Amer- ica 37H Items of Local Interest ... 382 Lime Juice, CoiiRf^iit:rt'"g bj' Freezing .379 Mangrove Wood 381 Market Reports 384 Motor Cultivation, Stimu- lation of by the War ... 369 Page. 371! Notes and Comments .. Pigs, Breeding and Feed ilig of ... ?" 383 Plant Disease*:— '.JS^ liosellinia Root Dfs- -^-j eases in the Lesser ^"' Antilles 382 :5Mi^*^ necessity to make the most effective use of all available labour-saving iniplementsand uaachines in agricultural operations. One result has been the giving of greater attention to motor ploughing,—on one side by the farmers, on the other by the manu- fecturers, boili sides being anxious for national as well as for commercial reasons, that mechanical power be utilized on the land to the greatest possible extent. A movement, stimulated by such urgent circum- stances, is not likely to be barren in its results. The war has demonstrated in numberless ways the truth of the statement that necessitj lead;-, to invention; and it would seem well worth while for West Indian planters to take cognizasice of what is being effected, and what will be effected in regard to the substitution of mechanically produced power for human and animal power on the land, m Great Britain and other Euro- pean countries. From information published by the English Board of Agriculture* it is evident that agricultural societies and institutions
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