. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. XIII. No. 309. BARBADOS, FEBRUARY -28. 19U. Peice Id. CONTENTS. Pace. Page. 68 Advent Slielf Cane Harvester, f Plant Disease 78 71 71 67 72 70 70 Gleaninjjs 76 India, Mutual Creilit 69 Insect Ni'tes:— Teniiites or White Ants 74 Mai de Caderas, Further Note on 7- Mal de Caderas, of Northern Islands in Re- gard to 75 Market Reports 80 Notes and Oouuuents ... 72 Oils, IJm>'''1. Turning into Sidid Fats
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. XIII. No. 309. BARBADOS, FEBRUARY -28. 19U. Peice Id. CONTENTS. Pace. Page. 68 Advent Slielf Cane Harvester, f Plant Disease 78 71 71 67 72 70 70 Gleaninjjs 76 India, Mutual Creilit 69 Insect Ni'tes:— Teniiites or White Ants 74 Mai de Caderas, Further Note on 7- Mal de Caderas, of Northern Islands in Re- gard to 75 Market Reports 80 Notes and Oouuuents ... 72 Oils, IJm>'''1. Turning into Sidid Fats 73 Rubber, New I'ses for ... 71 •Soil Teiiiperature, Stuilies in 77 Wanleil: A Tropical A'_'ri- cultinal Note-Book ... 65 West Indian Pr>iducts ... 79 Wanted: A Tropical Agricultural Note-Book. T has been wisely said thut the art in remembering is to make notes, and it is (becoming very clear that sooner or later the progressive agriculturist of the Tropics will have to take this saying to heart. The number of facts and figures which are accumulating in tropical agriculture is astounding, and what is even more oi'er-powering, is the circumstance that their reconlance is so scattered. This can be appreciated by merely glancing at the different references in italics which appear in nearly every column of this journal. It is evident, therefore, that a useful purpose would be served if all the more important and firmly established results could be grouped together in tabular form within small com- pass. This is the idea of the tropical agricultural note-book which forms the subject of the jiresent article. The question might be raised—Is it yet worth while to take action, considering the want of precision in regard to a large nimiber of existing results/ How are we to tabulate definite statements of general application about the fermentation of cacao or the preparation of plantation rubber, or about the para- sitology of many of our ])lant diseases' It must be confe
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