. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. y^r. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol XII. No 294. BARBADOS, AUCRST 2, 1913. Pan E \(i. CONTENTS Paor. A^ricultiual ; for the Tropica 245 llaniiKis. Ciieip Way of S>lii|iping 244 IWitisli Hiunliuas, Agiicul- tural .\tt' in ..." ... 24it Cacao Hrizc-Hdliiiiic's Coiii- Paok. petition, Dniftinica ... 244 Cotton Notes :— Cotton in 246 '• West Indian Cotton ... 246; Departmental Uejioits ... 251 Kxllibition^s, Kxhil)i(s for Bristol a
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. y^r. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol XII. No 294. BARBADOS, AUCRST 2, 1913. Pan E \(i. CONTENTS Paor. A^ricultiual ; for the Tropica 245 llaniiKis. Ciieip Way of S>lii|iping 244 IWitisli Hiunliuas, Agiicul- tural .\tt' in ..." ... 24it Cacao Hrizc-Hdliiiiic's Coiii- Paok. petition, Dniftinica ... 244 Cotton Notes :— Cotton in 246 '• West Indian Cotton ... 246; Departmental Uejioits ... 251 Kxllibition^s, Kxhil)i(s for Bristol and ... •J44 Fungus Notes : — A New Disease Castor Oil Plant . Tile Spottin'4 of tion Para Ruliliev Gleaninsrs of the . .. 254 Planta- . ... 254 . ... 252 Herd Pook, West Indian 248 Insect Notes — Pest- ill Antigua 250 Market Reports 25(> M.'tor Cultivation 241 M ot c '\ - IHough, Self-con- tained 255 Mutation in Micvo-orgaii- isms 24« Notes and Conmients ... 248 Rainfall in West Indies during .June 248 Synthetic 240 Students Comer 25". Sugar Industry :— The Date Sugar Industry in Bengal 243 Veterinary Notes 247 West Indian Products ... ;5 West Indies in Canada ... 249 Motor Cultivation. ^M^ITHOUT any pretence at an exhaustive )i\vf\W-^ treatment of the subject, an attempt has been tS:3i^i^:ig made in this article to review in a general manner, the present state of motor cultivation in differ- ent parts of the world. One favourable opportunity for doing so is presented through the recent publication of a comprehensive account, by l>r. Fischer,' of the position of this phase of agricultural engineering in (iermany. From the account given by this writer it would appear that after many years' laborious and expensive experiments, the difficulties surrounding the employ- ment of oil engines for automatic ploughs'- were first- satisfactorily overcome in 1910 by Robert Stock.* The motor-plough invented by this engineer has survived the t
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