. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. NEW\ BOTAN Vol. X. No. 237. BARBADOS, MAY 27, 1911. Pkigb Id. CONTENTS. Page. Page. Broom Corn in tlit- United States ami •,)ueunsliind 170 Calcium Cyanamide .nid jNitratu of Liiiie ... ]iiagation, Addi- tional Methods of ... Sterilization of Tobacco Seed Bells Students' Corner Time of Flow of Latex and Yield of Rubber ... Woeds, Noxious, Legisla- tion against West Indiiin Products ... 171 176 171 IGl 168 169 109 164 168 173
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. NEW\ BOTAN Vol. X. No. 237. BARBADOS, MAY 27, 1911. Pkigb Id. CONTENTS. Page. Page. Broom Corn in tlit- United States ami •,)ueunsliind 170 Calcium Cyanamide .nid jNitratu of Liiiie ... ]iiagation, Addi- tional Methods of ... Sterilization of Tobacco Seed Bells Students' Corner Time of Flow of Latex and Yield of Rubber ... Woeds, Noxious, Legisla- tion against West Indiiin Products ... 171 176 171 IGl 168 169 109 164 168 173 171 163 175 Mvcoloov in Relation to AdmioistratioD. ^^1 iTUjf HE systematic sttidy of the diseases of plants r^l ^^^^''^"'^' ^^^ application to general agriculture ?.?^€°>OJ'%has developed almost entirely within the last sixty years. Although the existence of various fungi has been recognizt-d for many centuries, yet little if anything was known of their real nature until the middle of last century; their life-histories were almost entirely unstudied, and many of them were believed to be abnormal developments of the leaves and other parts of dowering plants. Under such circumstances, it was only natural that nothing should be known of their connexion with plant diseases, and that the latter were generally attributed to bad soil conditions, the occur- rence of excessive rains or drought, and similar factors. In some instances, where large insects, such as the larvae of beetles, or of ntoths and butterflies, were found in considerable numbers in connexion with disease, it was realized that these were the cause; while in others, when the disease was of a violently epidemic nature, it was usually said that the plants were destroyed by a blight. Instances of this are the blights reported at various limes on cacao in Trinidad, and that said to have destroyed the cocoa-nut palm in Antigua. The use of the term 'blight', referring as it does only to the general appearance o
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