. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. I. No. 16. BARBADOS, NOVEMBER 22, ]f>02. Price \d. CONTENTS. Page. :vna3, C of ... 244 Coffee and Civoao 243 Cotton Seed Oil Industry 245 Department News 251 Dejiartnient Publications 255 Department Report :— Trade of Pari for 1!>01 250 Educational :— School Gardens at St. Lucia 253 Fungoid Siieoiniens, Col- lecting and Forward- ins of 243 Garden Notes : — The Eucharis Lily ... 248 Gleanings 252 Grenada, C
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. I. No. 16. BARBADOS, NOVEMBER 22, ]f>02. Price \d. CONTENTS. Page. :vna3, C of ... 244 Coffee and Civoao 243 Cotton Seed Oil Industry 245 Department News 251 Dejiartnient Publications 255 Department Report :— Trade of Pari for 1!>01 250 Educational :— School Gardens at St. Lucia 253 Fungoid Siieoiniens, Col- lecting and Forward- ins of 243 Garden Notes : — The Eucharis Lily ... 248 Gleanings 252 Grenada, Crops in 245 Insect Notes :— Sjiraying for Insect Pests in En^'land ... 248 Page. ... 254 ... 246 ... 244 Market Reports Notes and Comments Oranges, Packing of Our Book Shelf: — Bee-keeping in Jamaica 251 Martini<jueand St. Vin- cent, Eruptions 251 Plain facts as to Trusts and Tariff 251 Poultry 250 Reptiles of Barbados ... 248 Sugar Industry:— The Sugar-cane crops of the world 242 The growth of a new Industry 241 Trinidad crops 245 West Indian Exports 1900-'01 253 The Growth of a New Industrv </Zrl hK* N the article on the ' Utilization of Home Products' in tlie last number of this Journal, we pointed out that one of the methods of remedying the present non-economical state of in the West Indies was by the local production of articles now imported. A review of the jirogress maile by one industry, which has been steadily advancing during the last few years, will serve to show that the advice given is n<3t merely theoretical but is capable of practical application. Some twelve years ago there were probably no onions, to speak of, grown in the West Indies. Large supplies were consumed, and for these the colonies were dependent on importations. The profits arising from the cultivation of these onions went, not to West Indian agriculturists but to the onion growers of the Canary Islands, Bermuda, etc. In about 1890 an old Bermuda grower, resi- den
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