. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. L m -?'•' ?^^?-'' a. r^M A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol XVIIL No. 444. BARBADOS, MAY 3, 1919. Pkicb Irf. Paob. Paob. Af/ K Auother requisite for successful experimentation f is what may be called a scientific imaginative faculty. Not only must the investigator take a broad view of the subject he may have, to study, but he must look far ahead, and be able to devise appropriate methods of, experiment. Otherwise his research is likely to become merely a matter o
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. L m -?'•' ?^^?-'' a. r^M A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol XVIIL No. 444. BARBADOS, MAY 3, 1919. Pkicb Irf. Paob. Paob. Af/ K Auother requisite for successful experimentation f is what may be called a scientific imaginative faculty. Not only must the investigator take a broad view of the subject he may have, to study, but he must look far ahead, and be able to devise appropriate methods of, experiment. Otherwise his research is likely to become merely a matter of attention to insignificant details, which d > not) tend to any real elucidation of the ques- tions involved Some further quotations from Mr. Farquharson's letter illustrate from his experience this point In dealing with cotton and ground nut'troubles his scientific imagination evidently stood him in good stead. He writes:— 'The optimum planting date for American cotton here is about July 17. Every day planting is delay- ed after that in a noimal rainfall year increases the risk of a short crop. The great limiting factor after that is the Harmattan, which come,s on about November or December after the rains have stopped, but before any marked response to that, in the way of leaf fall, has set in. Once the Harmattan .sets in (it m more or less intense from the start) defoliation is rapid. That is followed by a meagre flush of new foliage, th« leaves of which are greatly reduced in size. Flowers may still, arid do, continue to appear, but the bolls are undersized, are often badly worm-infested, and whe» mature their cotton is rarely worth picking. Now vou might think that it might pay to plant ii week or tw* or even a month earlier. Well, I rested the point bv serial plantings, and found that June plantings or evea more ibnormally early are hopeless: the plants became the prey of the authracnose fungus, Fusariuma, physiological "red rust'', and dear knows what e!.s
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