. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. ^^^/. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. NEW BOTAf OAKI Vol. XIII. Xo. 316. BARBADOS, JUNE 6, 1914. Price Id, CONTENTS. Page. Biitish Guiana: Recent Meet- iiii; of Boarilof Agricultiirel89 Cacao Cultivation in Trinidad and the Gold Coast ... 180 China. University for ... 184 Cotton Notes:— West Indian Cotton ... 182 Departmental Reports ... 189 , Co-operative Move- ment in 182 Fungus Notes:— A New Spray Fluid ...190 Base Rot of Pine-apples 190 Gleanings 188 Ins
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. ^^^/. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. NEW BOTAf OAKI Vol. XIII. Xo. 316. BARBADOS, JUNE 6, 1914. Price Id, CONTENTS. Page. Biitish Guiana: Recent Meet- iiii; of Boarilof Agricultiirel89 Cacao Cultivation in Trinidad and the Gold Coast ... 180 China. University for ... 184 Cotton Notes:— West Indian Cotton ... 182 Departmental Reports ... 189 , Co-operative Move- ment in 182 Fungus Notes:— A New Spray Fluid ...190 Base Rot of Pine-apples 190 Gleanings 188 Insect Notes:— Insect Pests in Barbados, 1912-13. II 186 Market Reports 192 Production in the Indies 177 Mutation in Micro-Organ- isnis 185 Page. Nitriticaliouand 18" Notes and Comments ... 184 Orange Oil Industry ... 180 Philippines, Swine Breeding in 183 Plant Growth and Partial Sierilization 191 Plant Products as Manures 185 Rothamsted Experimental Station, Report mi, 191.'$ 184 Ru))ber Growing 181 Sugar Industry:— Blackstrap (Feeding) Mo- lasses 179 Xew Changes and Devel- opments 179 Tea Manufacture 182 Trinidad, Horticultural So- ciety for 185 United States, Cattle Tick Eradication in 183 Meat Production in the West Indies. PX his well-known treatise on veterinary Uiygiene, General Smith, , begins the ^section on the care and management of cattle by stating that 'cattle are kept for two specific purposes, viz., either the production of flesh or of milk. Both of these are intimately mixed up with the question of feeding.' In the West Indies, and in the Tropics as a whole, we have the distinction of remaining outside this general- ization; for although the raising of animals for meat and milk does occur, the specific aim generally kept in view is the breeding of animals for work. In other words, the production of animals for meat or milk as a primary object is almost non-existent, and there is consequently no special regard paid to the
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