. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. III. No. 46. BARBADOS, JANUARY 16, 1904. Price Id. CONTENTS. Page. Agave Americana, Fil)ru of 24 Agi-icultural Education ... 24 Agriculture in Lagos ... 25 Balata, Notes on Bananas from Sierra Leone 20 Barbados and Porto Rico Molasses 17 Barbados Local Exhibition 24 Bee-keeping:— West Indian Honey ... 22 Cacao, Sliade Trees and Manure for 25 Carbon Bisulphide as an Lisecticide 29 Cotton :— Montserrat 21 Pests at Antigua 24


. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. III. No. 46. BARBADOS, JANUARY 16, 1904. Price Id. CONTENTS. Page. Agave Americana, Fil)ru of 24 Agi-icultural Education ... 24 Agriculture in Lagos ... 25 Balata, Notes on Bananas from Sierra Leone 20 Barbados and Porto Rico Molasses 17 Barbados Local Exhibition 24 Bee-keeping:— West Indian Honey ... 22 Cacao, Sliade Trees and Manure for 25 Carbon Bisulphide as an Lisecticide 29 Cotton :— Montserrat 21 Pests at Antigua 24 Seed Cake 21 Department News 29 Department Reports : — Barbados and Portcj Rico Molasses 20 British Guiana, Report of the Board of Agri- culture 29 Educational :— Dominica Agricultural School 27 St. Lucia Agricultural School 27 St. Vincent Agricultural School 27 Page. .. 28 Gleanings Guinea Grass, Machine for Cutting 21 Notes: — The Cotton Worm ... 2(5 Jamaica, Prison Farm at 20 Lectures to Planters at Barbados 23 Market Reports 31 Notes and Comments ... 24 Ontario Crop Report ... 24 Oranges, Picking and Packing for Export 20 Our Book Shelf:— Diseases of the Horse £7 Hints on Outfit for Travellers in Tropical Countries 27 Poultry :— Sulphuric Acid for Chicken Cliolera ... 30 Sugar Industry : — Barbados Molasses ... 18 Porto Rico Molasses ... 18 Sugar-cane, Improve- ment by Chemical Selection 19 Sunflowers and Bees .. 22 Tamworth Pigs in Trinidad 19 Watering, Notes on ... 22 West Indian Products ... 30 Barbados and Porto Rico Molasses. N Pamphlet No. 28, just issued by this Department, planters and others are placed in possession of information relating to molasses and syrup. The greater part of the pamphlet is devoted to the report of the Imperial Commissioner and Mr. Bovoll containing information obtained in New York and elsewhere as to the trade in molasses. A brief summary of this report has already been given in the Af/ricultund Xewts (Vol. II, p. 3


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