. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. *.-!>. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. UBi<An"v .-4EW YOrtK BOTANICAL GARDEN Vol. IV. No. 76. BArtBADOS, ilAECH 11, lOO-',. Price Id. CONTENTS. Page. Page. Banks, Grenada, Agricultural Kaitfi; 73 Industrits of 73 Agricultural Show :— Insect Notes :— Antigua 75 The Arrowroot Worm 74 Bee Keeping :— Pigeon Pea as a Honey Flower Jamaica Tobacco Industrj i i 68 Lym])hangitis, Epi/.ontic Market Reports 74 79 Calcium Cyananiide 70 Notes an
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. *.-!>. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. UBi<An"v .-4EW YOrtK BOTANICAL GARDEN Vol. IV. No. 76. BArtBADOS, ilAECH 11, lOO-',. Price Id. CONTENTS. Page. Page. Banks, Grenada, Agricultural Kaitfi; 73 Industrits of 73 Agricultural Show :— Insect Notes :— Antigua 75 The Arrowroot Worm 74 Bee Keeping :— Pigeon Pea as a Honey Flower Jamaica Tobacco Industrj i i 68 Lym])hangitis, Epi/.ontic Market Reports 74 79 Calcium Cyananiide 70 Notes and Comments 72 Cotton Tnilustry :— ()ur Book Shelf:— Jauiaica C9 The Journal of Agri- Prospects of Crop 09 cuUural Science 11 Uivers' Sea Island Seed 72 Papaw in the Transvaal ... 08 Sales of St. Vincent 72 Pine-apples, Canning in Sale of West Indian .. 69 Hawaii 68 Sea Island Market 69 Praedial Larceny 72 Cotton Prospects 65 Science Notes : — Department 73 Cocoa-nut, Structure Disc Ploughs 75 and Germination 71 Educational :— Senegal, Agriculture in ... 73 Dominica Agricidtiiral Sugar Industry :— School 70 Seedling Canes in the St. Lucia 70 Leeward Islands 67 School Gai'dens in West Indian Products :— Jamaica 70 Canada 78 Fruit, Show of Colonial .. 68 London Drug and Spice Gleanings 70 Market 78 Cotton Prospects, N the Ayricidtivrul iYeics (Vol. Ill, p. 417) attention was drawn to the fact that owing to the colossal crop of cotton pro- duced in the United States in the autumn of 1904 a considerable fall in prices had been the result. This fall specially affected the ordinary or Upland cotton. During the early pai't of 1904 the jirices of Upland cotton reached about 9(/. per It). Quite lately prices have fallen to less than 4(^. per tb. As stated by- Mr. C. M. Wolstenholmo, this sudden break in prices in Upland cotton shtMild pro\'o to planters in the West ludies the folly of suggesting the planting of any other than long-staple cotton. The soil,
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