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AGRICULTURE. 



employer the selC-helpfuliiess wliich lie has learnt in the pro- 

 vision ground. It is so in England. Our best agricultural 

 day-labourers are, without exception, those who cultivate 

 some scrap of ground, or follow some petty occupation, which 

 prevents their depending entirely on wage-labour. And so I 

 believe it w^ill be in the West Indies. Let the land-policy 



of the late Governor be follow^ed 

 up. Let squatting be rigidly 

 forbidden. Let no man hold 

 possession of land without hav- 

 ing earned, or inherited, money 

 enough to purchase it, as a 

 guarantee of his ability and re- 

 spectability, or as in the case 

 of Coolies past their indentures 

 as a commutation for rights 

 i>Xv^^5^^ ^^'hich he has earned in likewise. 

 But let the coloured man of every 

 race be encouraged to become a 

 landholder and a producer in his 

 own small way. He w^ill thus, 

 not only by what he produces, but by what he con- 

 sumes, add largely to the wealth of the colony; while 

 his increased w^ants, and those of his children, till they 

 too can purchase land, will draw him and his sons and 



Guava. 



