. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. XIV. No. 344. BARBADOS, JULY 3, 1915. Price Id. CONTENTS. Acid Soils Agricultural Affairs in British Guiana Agricultural Lng of HI Dominica ... Alcohol as Fuel in the Tropic- Ami ica, and Agricultural Engineering in tin Tropics i !i i] ii ( s, Fedei'al Cotton Notes: West [ndian (iotton Mutation in Egyptian Cotton ... .' Department News Depart mental Reports I idsl uti'-. Tropical, and their Valuation Fungus N
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. XIV. No. 344. BARBADOS, JULY 3, 1915. Price Id. CONTENTS. Acid Soils Agricultural Affairs in British Guiana Agricultural Lng of HI Dominica ... Alcohol as Fuel in the Tropic- Ami ica, and Agricultural Engineering in tin Tropics i !i i] ii ( s, Fedei'al Cotton Notes: West [ndian (iotton Mutation in Egyptian Cotton ... .' Department News Depart mental Reports I idsl uti'-. Tropical, and their Valuation Fungus Notes The [nterna] I disease i if Cotton Bolls Page. 217 Gleanings . 211 221 200 Pace. ... 220 216 213 214 214 221 214 219 222 Cnsecl Notes: Pests of Peas and Beans Italian Tomato Trade Items of Local Maize in Rhodesia. Market Reports Notes and Comment s Papaw and Papain Report on the Depart men! of Agriculture, Trinidad and Students' Corner Sug ii cane Varieties in Different Countries Tick Eradication in Antigua Ti anspirat ion i if a Partial Parasite, and of Shaded Tobacco 'West [ndian Bulletin' ... 218 222 223 212 221 216 212 216 221 210 219 217 J\-. Alcohol as Fuel in the Tropics. l';'( KHSISTKNT agitation, during the past ?two years, in favour of alcohol as ,-i source if power in the tropics, does not appear to have resulted so far in the achievement of anything Several well-known authorities on sugar manufacture have advocated the utilization of molasses in this direction, and have shown thai the proposition is ;i practical one: other writers have called attention tii tin- value of the by-prn(lncts oi banana, cacao and coco-nut estates; while in sub-tropical countries the cultivation of corn and starch-producing crops has been mentioned as another source from which alcohol mierhl be produced. In this journal (No. 310 of March 14, 1914,) the whole question of alcohol production in the tropics was reviewed, and authorities were quoted to the effect that
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