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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



EXTRACTS FROM MINUTES. 



The usual monthly meeting of the Board of Agriculture was 

 held at Headquarter House on I2th September, present : the 

 Colonial Secretary, the Commissioner for the Imperial Department 

 of Agriculture for the West Indies, the Director of Public Gardens, 

 the Government Chemist, Hon. T. Capper, Messrs. C. A. T. Fursdon, 

 C. E. deMercado. J. W. Middleton, G. D. Murray and John Barclay, 

 Secretary. 



The Secretary read letters from the Colonial Secretary as 

 follows : — 



a. Intimating that Mr. N. A. Rudolf had been appointed 



Assistant Superintendent of Hope Gardens and the Ex- 

 periment Station, with a salary at the rate of £ioo a year 

 and quarters, his duties to include, if required, the instruc- 

 tion of the boys at the Industrial School. 



b. That the grant of £26 asked for by the Chemist for Go- 



vernment Laboratory apprentices could not be acceded 

 to in the present financial position. The Chemist, how- 

 ever, submitted a later letter to him sanctioning the 

 employment of four apprentices at 4/ a week each, the 

 payment being made from general savings on the 

 Laboratory estimates for the current year, 



c. Transmitting copy of letter from the agent of Messrs. 



Elder, Dempster & Co. in regard to the appointment of 

 fruit experts. 



After discussion, on the suggestion of Sir Daniel 

 Morris, it was agreed to recommend to the Government, 

 that as Mr. Robert Thomson had been put at the disposal 

 of the Board, they should ask if Messrs. Elder, Dempster 

 & Co. could see their way to appoint two or three In- 

 structors leaving it to the Board to nominate such as were 

 satisfactory to them, who could assign them to different 

 districts. 



d. Intimating that the Government had appointed in addition 



to Mr. G. D. Murray, Lt. Col. C. J. Ward, C.M.G., the Hon. 

 W. A. S. Vickers, and Mr. Jos. Shore, to be associated 

 with the Government Chemist in the management of the 

 sugar experiments. 



e. Advising that in accordance with a resolution of the Board 



Mr. Nolan had been informed that the Governor con- 

 sidered it desirable that prosecutions in which the sole 

 evidence that the rum sold is not Jamaica rum, is the fact 

 that it does not contain a certain percentage of ethers, 

 should be discontinued. 



The Secretary submitted report on the cotton gins in charge 

 of the Board. He was instructed to insert a notice in the Agri- 



