. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. L18RA1 NEW Y Cuba 141 Fruit Export to England 133 West Indian Bulletni ... 130 Gleanings 140 West Hay Indus- Ground Nuts trv. Pofisilde Develop- Nut Oil in France ... 137 ment of 131 Food Supply of the Wei^t Indies. N considering the annual trade returns of the Vv est Indies it must strike the observer that the quantities of food stuffs imported each year are very large for countries whose industries are almost pur
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. L18RA1 NEW Y Cuba 141 Fruit Export to England 133 West Indian Bulletni ... 130 Gleanings 140 West Hay Indus- Ground Nuts trv. Pofisilde Develop- Nut Oil in France ... 137 ment of 131 Food Supply of the Wei^t Indies. N considering the annual trade returns of the Vv est Indies it must strike the observer that the quantities of food stuffs imported each year are very large for countries whose industries are almost purely agricultural. To take the Leeward Islands as an instance. In 1906-7, the total value of all the imports into the colony was £407,2-51, which included articles of food to the value of £151,200. Among the chief items in this class are wheat Hour, £40, : corn meal, £13,593 ; salt pork, hams and bacon, £12,657 : brccid- stutfs, £9,127 : rice, £8,537 : and peas and beans, £991. To a eel tain extent it may be truly urged that it is economically sound and more generally profitable for these islands to grow tor export such staple products as sugar, cacao, cotton, limes, bananas, etc., and to import foreign-grown foods. But, under existing conditions, there are numbers of men in many of the West Indian islands who find little or no employ- ment, and in most of the colonies there are more or less considerable tracts of uncultivated land. It would be highly beneficial, therefore, ,if these now unused resources could be employed in the production of food stuff's for local consumption. In such a case, large sums of money at paid out for imported i'oods would be spent at home, and the value would remain in the colony to be again employed in raising other useful products. ;' The matter of the more extended cultivation of food crops in the West Indies is especially worthy of consideration just now in connexion with the question of cotton planting. It has been
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