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From the Agricultural Chemist : — 



1. Report on Sugar Canes at the Experiment Station. 



2. Report by the Supt. of Sugar Experiments. 



Plan of Experiment Station. — The Director of Public Gardens 

 and Plantations presented a plan showing the position of the 

 various plots at the Hope Experiment Station, and asked for 

 authority to have a block prepared so that the plan may be 

 printed in the Bulletin. 



This was approved, the cost of preparing the block to be 

 charged against the vote for Petty Expenses of the Board. 



The usual monthly meeting of the Board of Agriculture was 

 held at Headquarter House on Tuesday, 15th August, 1 905. 

 Present: — Hon. H. Clarence Bourne, Colonial Secretary, Chair- 

 man ; Sir Daniel Morris, Imperial Commissioner of Agriculture for 

 West Indies, the Director of Public Gardens and Plantations, the 

 Agricultural Chemist, Hon. T. H. Sharp, Mr. G. D. Murray, and 

 the Secretary, John Barclay. 



Letters from the Colonial Secretary's Office were read as fol- 

 lows : — 



{a) Shade Tobacco — Report from Mr. F. V. Chalmers on samples of 

 Tobacco grown at Hope. (This Report is published in the Gazette, 

 and the Bulletin.) Approving of the expenditure of £25 for pro- 

 viding new shade cloth required for continuing the experiments 

 of growing tobacco under shade at Hope, provided the total vote 

 for the year was not thereby exceeded by more than £10. The 

 Board resolved to recommend that the expenditure be paid from 

 re-imbursements from sales of tobacco, and the Director of Public 

 Gardens was asked to communicate direct with the Colonial Sec- 

 retary. 



(&) Sugar Experiment Com?nittee~-Advis'mg that Mr. W. A. S. Vick- 

 ers had been asked to represent the Westmoreland Sugar Planters 

 Association on the Sugar Experiment Committee and that Mr. G. 

 D. Murray, Vere, had been appointed to be a member on the Com- 

 mittee. 



(c) hidustrial School — Advising that the proposal to transfer the 

 inmates of Hope Industrial School to Stony Hill could not be made 

 under present conditions. 



{d) Jamaica Scholarship and Agriculture — Advising that the sugges- 

 tion to utilise the Jamaica Scholarship for the encouragement of 

 Agriculture would be considered by the Jamaica Schools Commis- 

 sion as soon as that body obtained certain details for which they 

 had applied to the Board. 



Mr. Nolan and Rum — A letter from Mr. J. C. Nolan, Special Com- 

 missioner re the Rum Industry in England, announcing that his 

 first case was then under the consideration of the Board of Trade, 

 was submitted. 



Vegetable Growing — A letter was submitted from the Hon. H. 

 Cork^that instructions should be given to the Local Agricultural 



