218 TBINIDAD AND TOBAOU BULLETIN. \XVIIL 4. 



In 1908 the estate was absorbed in the Department of Agriculture, 

 and came under the control of the Director. In 1909 the Board of 

 Agriculture recommended that the River Estate should be worked on a 

 suspense account in the same way as St. Augustine Estate and that the 

 revenue of the estate, after payment of expenses, should be set apart for 

 experiments in cocoa cultivation. Up to that time the receipts and 

 expenniture of the estate had been included in the annual estimates 

 of the Colony. In 1910 effect was given to the recommendation 

 of the Board of Agriculture and the estate is now worked as a 

 business concern with separate accounts like the Augustine Estate. 



In 1913 the management of the River Estate was transferred from 

 the exclusive control of the Director of Agriculture to the Board of 

 IManagement to which reference is made in paragraph 10 above. 



The estimated expenditure on the estate for the year 1917 is JG3,587 

 and the estimated revenue £4,523. The money advanced for the 

 purchase of the estate has been repaid to Government and the estimated 

 surplus in the accounts of the estate on 31st December, 1917, is jE2,484. 

 "With the extension of cultivation and improvements affected the present 

 value of the estate is estimated to be about £25,000. 



15. In connection with St. Augustine Estate the Board of Manage- 

 ment is largely occupied with transactions connected with the sale and 

 lease of the land belonging to the estate, with the management of the 

 Mount Hope Cacao Estate, and with the cultivation of sugar and other 

 crops on part of the estate. 



16. In addition to the control of the estates the Board of Management 

 has charge of the iVgricultural Pupil Scheme the expenses of which, 

 amounting to about £150 a year, are borne by the funds of the River 

 Estate. 



GOVERNMENT STOCK FARM, VALSAYN. 



17. The Government Stock Farm, Valsayn, is part of the St. 

 Augustine Estate which is rented by the Department of Agriculture. 

 The farm has an area of 300 acres the greater part of which is in 

 pasture, though maize and leguminous crops are cultivated as fodder for 

 the stock. In addition to the animals maintained for stud purposes a 

 herd of dairy cattle is kept for the supply of milk to the Colonial 

 Hospital and other Government Institutions in Port-of-Spain. Bulls 

 .are also leased for use on the public pastures in Port-of-Spain and St. 



Augustine and elsewhere. 



GOVERNMENT STOCK P^ARM, TOBAGO. 



18. The Agricultural establishment in Tobago consists of a Stock Farm, 

 Burleigh Castle, 219 acres in extent, and the Botanical Station at 

 Scarborough. The Farm and Botanical Station are under a Manager, 

 and there is a Farm Committee consisting of several prominent planters, 

 with the (.Jommissioner-Warden as Chairman, which advises as to the 

 management of the Farm. 



