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^Yith respect to the system of " marking " it was found expedient to 

 amplify tlie outline given in Rule 6 and divide the 80 marks allowed for 

 " Tillage " into " Tillage Proper " 60 marks and " Cultivation or 

 Up Keep " 20 marks. It was also thought just and advisable, bearing 

 in mind the aims of these Competitions, to allow under the head of 

 "General" a small number of marks, viz: 4, for theoretical knowledge 

 v.'ithout a due proportion of which no industry can ever be progressive. 

 As the results showed that over 80 per cent, of the competitors had 

 some grounding in this subject and 75 per cent, of these had put their 

 knowledge into practice also, the indications of the possibility of a future 

 healthy Cane farming industry are indeed hopeful. 



We unhesitatingly pronounce the Competition as a whole a success. 

 The competitors have generally proved themselves intelligent and 

 persevering workers, actuated by a healthy spirit of rivalry and we 

 regret only that there are not more prizes within our power to 

 recommend. 



When the individual results of the two districts are compared it will 

 be noticed that competitors in the No. 2 district have been keener than in 

 the other. In that District only 9 marks separate the 83 of the 6th place 

 from 92 of the first, while even the 21st on the list was but 32 marks 

 below the prize winner. The champion of the whole Competition, 

 however, is in the No. 1 District. 



Special mention must be made of the following: — 



Samuel Taylor (98 marks) who has won the first place in No. 1 

 District and secured the highest number of marks in the combined 

 results may be termed a model Cane-farmer. He is an active member 

 of the Savana Grande District Agricultural Society and possessed of 

 some " book-learning." Yet, with his own hands he has done most of 

 the work of his farm and reared a fine-looking crop of canes on a stiff 

 slope that was quite recently under para grass and " black-sage " and 

 bore a bad reputation. 



Hosein Baksh (82 marks) the winner of second place in No. 1 

 District also deserves praise for hia courageous effort with a piece of 

 land very similar to Taylor's. Having no book-learning and little 

 practical experience this competitor had relied solely on the instruction 

 of the Adviser and deserves approbation for his creditable attempt, in 

 spite of sceptical neighbours and compatriots, to carry out those 

 instructions. 



Jama (81 marks) also deserves praise particularly when her sex is 

 taken into consideration. 



Simon Fortune (92 marks) the winner of the first place in No. 2 

 District had the advantage of better soil and situation than the foregoing 

 but fully deserves his success. His cane garden is evidently kept as a 

 " garden " indeed. 



The names of a few otliers that have earned distinction for marked 

 superiority in some branch or other of the work appear in the complete 

 list of " Distinctions " below 



