. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. '?'""' "**o, '«"», Vol. XV. No. 3/ BARBADOS, JULY 29, 1916. Peice Id. CONTENTS. Page. P AGi;. Aiuei-iciin Pnpuw aiul Ihu .laiiiaiua. Trade an.'! Agri- Tropical Papaya 248 culture of, 1!)14-I5 ... 25:^ Antiwua Central Sugar Fac- Land Settlement in Jamaica 2-1'.) tory 2r).n Leuionade, Substitutes foi 2:4 Bay Tree. True and False 24o Market Reports 251 i British Guiana, Coco-nut Notes and Comments ... Industry


. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. '?'""' "**o, '«"», Vol. XV. No. 3/ BARBADOS, JULY 29, 1916. Peice Id. CONTENTS. Page. P AGi;. Aiuei-iciin Pnpuw aiul Ihu .laiiiaiua. Trade an.'! Agri- Tropical Papaya 248 culture of, 1!)14-I5 ... 25:^ Antiwua Central Sugar Fac- Land Settlement in Jamaica 2-1'.) tory 2r).n Leuionade, Substitutes foi 2:4 Bay Tree. True and False 24o Market Reports 251 i British Guiana, Coco-nut Notes and Comments ... Industry in 245 Plant Diseases:— British Possessions and Tlie Poisoning of \\'eeds Foreign Countries. The and Trees 254 Recent Trade of ... 249 Propagation Recipes 250 Cattle Spraying in Antigua 247 St. Lucia Agricultural and Citius, Experiments with Ci'imnercial Society. An Stocks for Address before 2)0 Gleanings 252 Sea Island Coti;on Market 249 Humus and Water, Tlie Teak in Trinidad 251 Soil-Balance of 247 rniforinity of Metliod, Insect Notes:— A Plea for Greater ... 248 An Insect Destructive West Indian Product? ... 255 to Stored Maize 2511, West Indies, The Spread of Items of Local Interest ... 244, Kcononiic Eti'ort 241 The Spread of Economic Effort within the West Indies. Sir'T is very seldom th:a we find a new economic ^ r^ movement initialed in several places simul- rfc?*©* taneously. Betuic making an effort to put any such scheme into action, records show that there is generally a preliminary period of discussion, after ^vhich one place at last takes the lead, and demonstrates, at its own risk, the success or otherwise of the scheme in hand. The island of .St. Vincent has been the scene of a considerable amount of this experimental work in economic afifiiirs, and many other islands in the West Indies have benefited by tiie successful demonstrations that St. ^'incent has made. This island appears to have been the first in the British West Indies to undertak


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