. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THB IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. XII. No. 301. BARBADOS. NOVEMBER 8. 1913. Price Id, CONTENTS. Page. Citiu> Cultivation, Hea for 360 Coft'ee Bcny, Composition of 356 Cotton Notes:— British Cotton Growing Association 358 West Indian Cotton ... 358 Department News 365 Reports ... 363 D(iminica 367 Fnngus Notes :— Infectious Gummosis of Citrus Trees 366 ' Recent Interesting Wiak in ^'egetable Pliysiology 366 Gleanings 364 Insect :— An Ent
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THB IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. XII. No. 301. BARBADOS. NOVEMBER 8. 1913. Price Id, CONTENTS. Page. Citiu> Cultivation, Hea for 360 Coft'ee Bcny, Composition of 356 Cotton Notes:— British Cotton Growing Association 358 West Indian Cotton ... 358 Department News 365 Reports ... 363 D(iminica 367 Fnngus Notes :— Infectious Gummosis of Citrus Trees 366 ' Recent Interesting Wiak in ^'egetable Pliysiology 366 Gleanings 364 Insect :— An Entomological Visit to the Tnited States 362 Jamaica, Dual-Purpose Cattle in 357 Ruliber Plantation, Life on 361 Page. Market Reports 368 Notes and Comments ... .360 Oniiin Cultivation iu the Leeward Islands ,367 Rainfall, Variability 353 Rubber Industry 355 Rublier Treas, New Tapping Knives for 359 St. Croix, Motor Plougliing I in 359 Soil, Tlic Soil, Cu|iric Treatments and the Nitrification of ... 358 Students' Comer 365 Sugar Industry:— White Sugar Manufac- ture 355 Trinidad, Subsoil Blasting in 358 Vanilla, Ripe, Characteristics of 356 Waste in Distributiim ... 361 West Indian Bulletin ... .".fiO Variability of Rainfall. MARKED feature of present investigation work in sciences like those underlying agri- culture and civil engineering, whose object it is to harness the forces of nature, is the large amount of attention devoted to the study of statistical records. For examiile, recent examinations of milk records have entvbled deductions to be drawn concerning the relation between the ijuality anti yield of milk, whilst similar work has aJso led to the discovery of what is known as the 'revised maxiniuiu'—a quantity deduced from milk records, representing more accurately and more conveniently than the yearly total, the real capacity of an animal's power of lactation. Similarly, in genetics, the collection of statistics over a large number of ye
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