204 



Cultivation : — 



Receipts : — 



By cotton, 32,500 lbs., from 45 



acres sold as seed-cotton ... 387 18 Sh 8 12 4f 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



EXTRACTS FROM MINUTES. 



The monthly meeting of the Board of Agriculture was held at 

 Head Quarter House on the nth July at 11. 15 a.m., the following 

 members being present : the Hon, the Colonial Secretary, Chair- 

 man, the Director of Public Gardens and Plantations, the Agricul- 

 tural Chemist, Messrs. C. A. T. Fursdon, Geo. D. Murray and W. 

 Harris, acting Secretary. 



Annual Reports — The Report on the work of the Board, and the 

 Report of the Director of Public Gardens and Plantations for the 

 year ended 31st March, 1905 were brought up for consideration, 

 and it was agreed that the portions of the Director's Report deal- 

 ing with educational and experimental work should be incorpo- 

 rated in the Report on the work of the Board, — taking the Direc- 

 tor's Report of the Board for 1 902-03 as a model. 



Visit of Sir D. Morris— The Asst. Colonial Secretary wrote in- 

 forming the Board that Sir D. Morris has intimated that it would 

 be more convenient for him to arrive in Jamaica about the end of 

 July, and that he hopes to spend the greater part of August in the 



♦ CoBt acknowledged by planter to be exceseive. 



