. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. f>4.»^ Vol. XIII. No. 311. , MARCH -28, 1914. Pkice Id. CONTENTS Page Agi'icultural Progress in Dominica 105 Agricultural Show in Mont- serrat, 1914 1U4 Bombay, Steam Ploughing in 103 Book Shelf lO'J Bovine Tuberculosis in the West Indies, Control of 97 Cold Storage of Fruit and Vegetables 100 Cotton Nntes:— West African J02 West Indian Cotton ... 102 Density of Population in the Tropics 104 Departmental Report
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. f>4.»^ Vol. XIII. No. 311. , MARCH -28, 1914. Pkice Id. CONTENTS Page Agi'icultural Progress in Dominica 105 Agricultural Show in Mont- serrat, 1914 1U4 Bombay, Steam Ploughing in 103 Book Shelf lO'J Bovine Tuberculosis in the West Indies, Control of 97 Cold Storage of Fruit and Vegetables 100 Cotton Nntes:— West African J02 West Indian Cotton ... 102 Density of Population in the Tropics 104 Departmental Reports ... 107 Fungus Notes :— Diseases of SweetjPolato 110 Gleanings " ... ... IdS Page. Insect Notes:— The Eiadication of Mos- ((uitoes by the Cultivation of Bats 106 •lava, Green Dressing Experi- ments in 101 Market Reports 112 Notes and Counnents ... 104 Selection of Lands for Plan- tations in tlie 105 .*ubsoiling in Southern India 103 Suyar Industry:— Sugar-cane Experiments in the Leeward Islands, 1912-13 99 Tick Problem in New South Wales 102 West Indian Products ... Ill West Indian Fibres and Rubber 105 Wood. Preservation of ... 107 The Control of Bovine Tuberculosis in the West Indies. JT the Tuberculosis Conference held in Trinidad during March , it was fully 5 established that bovine tuberculosis exists in the West Indies and that it is urgently necessary bo advise and recommend the measures that should be taken to prevent the extension of the disease and the possible infection of human subjects. Up to the present time no definite action has been taken, at least not in the Windward and Leeward Islands, and since it is in these colonies that recent systematic observations have been made principally, it would seem desirable to bring forward in these columns the facts relating to the transmission of tuberculosis from animals to man, and the measures that have been adopted in other countries for the prevention of this transmission. Largely as th
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