. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. LIB|{, Vol. XL No. 256. BARBADOS, FEBRUARY 17, 1912. Pbicb Id. CONTENTS. Page. Page. Aitriciiltuial Conference, 1912, I 4; and Sliijiping in Florida ... .52 Cotton Notes :— British Cotton (jrowing Association 54 West Indian Cotton ... 54 Department News 53 Exports from Pominica ... .59 Fungus Notes :— Spots on Para Rulibcr ... ()2 Gleanings 60 Gn-o Vine 02 Insect Notes :— Formalin as .i Poison for the House Fly 58 The New Zealand Gras
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. LIB|{, Vol. XL No. 256. BARBADOS, FEBRUARY 17, 1912. Pbicb Id. CONTENTS. Page. Page. Aitriciiltuial Conference, 1912, I 4; and Sliijiping in Florida ... .52 Cotton Notes :— British Cotton (jrowing Association 54 West Indian Cotton ... 54 Department News 53 Exports from Pominica ... .59 Fungus Notes :— Spots on Para Rulibcr ... ()2 Gleanings 60 Gn-o Vine 02 Insect Notes :— Formalin as .i Poison for the House Fly 58 The New Zealand Giub 58 .Mangoes, New. for the West Indies 52 Market Reports 64 and Comments ... 50 Nutrition, Necessity for Phosjiliorus in 55 Para Rubber Seed Oil ... 61 Pax-a Rubber .Seeds, Geriui- nation of 53 rViisoiKjus Sul>stances in Plants, EHeet of Culti- vation on 03 Prize-Holdings Competi- tions in (irenada, I'.Ul 50 Rubber Cult i vat ion in Para, Enc(juragcment of ... 59 Students' Corner 61 Sugar from Shredded Cane 59 .Sugar Industry : — The Java Sugar Crop ... 51 Tobacco in Ceylon, Experi- ments witli 63 West Indian Products ... 63 Yaws, Treatment of 57 The West Indian Agricultural Conference, 1912. I. ^^Hw^E eighth West Indian Ag-ricnltiuMl Con- r^ ^l^ference was opened at the Vietoiia Institute, ^^fe!^35|Port-ofSpain, Trinidad, on January , by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Georgt- R. Le Hunt, In his opening address, in welcoming the Delegates from England, from the West Indies, and from British Guiana, as well as from Dutch Guiana, His E.\cellency referred to the personal pleasure afford- ed him by the oppoitunity for renewing past acquaint- anceships, and while regretting that the time of year was not such as to show agricultural matters at their best, in Trinidad, expressed the hope that the conditions would be such as to afford the most fiivourable oppor- tunities of viewing those matters. After reference to occurrences of local intere
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