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DEPARTMEJ^T OF AGRICULTURE. 



Vol. III. JANUARY. 1905. Part 1, 



COTTON CONFERENCE IN JAMAICA. 



The Conference arranged by the Board of Agriculture to meet 

 Messrs. E. L. Oliver and R. Stancliffe, the deputation from the 

 British Cotton Growing Association, took place at the Institute of 

 Jamaica on 29th November, 1904. 



Among those present were His Excellency Sir J. Alexander 

 Swettenham, the Hon. H. C. Bourne, His Grace the Archbishop, 

 Hon. Lieut.-Col. Pinnock, Mr. H. H. Cousins, Hon. Dr. J. Pringle, 

 C.M.G., Hon. W. Fawcett, Hon. T. H. Sharp, Mr. James Allwood, 

 C.M.G., Mr. L. F. McKinnon, Mr. Upton, Mr. C. A. T. Fursdon, Mr. 

 Warmington, Hon. H. Cork, Captain Egerton Eves, Hon. H. 

 T. Ronaldson, Mr. A. W. Farquharson, Mr. R. A. Walcott, Mr. 

 Broderick, Mr. J. Barclay, Mr. W, H. Johnson, and several other 

 gentlemen interested in the cotton industry. 



The Hon. H. Clarence Bourne, Chairman of the Board of Agri- 

 culture, occupied the chair. 



Mr. Oliver said that was the first meeting which he had had in 

 the West Indies without the presence of Sir Daniel Morris. He 

 wished to convey to them Sir Daniel Morris' regret that owing to 

 his long stay in England, his work in the West Indies had fallen 

 into such arrears that it was impossible for him to accompany the 

 members of the deputation to Jamaica. 



The cotton industry of the West Indies had passed the experi- 

 mental stage. It was undoubtedly a commercial success ; more so, 

 perhaps, in the other West Indian Islands than in Jamaica, where 

 it was, comparatively speaking, in its infancy. Perhaps they in 

 Jamaica could scarcely be said to be out of the experimental stage, 

 but the progress which had been made in the other islands was 

 simply phenomenal, and very great credit was due to Sir Daniel 

 Morris and his staff on the one hand, and to Mr. Charles 

 Wolstenholme, of the British Cotton Growing Association, on the 

 other hand. The people of Jamaica had made more progress in this 

 industry in two years than they might naturally have been expected 

 to do in a life time. They had had the benefit of very sound advice 

 and every word of that advice had been founded on the best pos- 

 sible experience of the United States. 



