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THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



October 29, 1910. 



Governor of British Guiana : — 



Wednesday, .January 11. The members of the Con- 

 feTencp, from other colonies, arrive at George- 

 town by Royal Mail steamer. The Conference 

 is opened in the Town Hall by His Excellency 

 the Governor. The Conference remains in session 

 until the afternoon. 



Tlitirsd ly, .Tanu-iry 12. Session of the Conference 

 during the morning and afternoon. 



Friday, January 13. Session of the Conference 

 during the morning and afDern<ion. 



Saturday and Sunday, .January 14 and 1.5. 

 Excni'sion to Bartica, Agatash, the Penal Settle- 

 ment, Onderneeming, Suddie. etc., returning t(j 

 Georgetown on the night of thr l-itli. 



Monday, .T.-inuary lli. Sessimi (if thr Conference 

 during the morning and afti-i'noon. 



Tuesday, .January 17. Excursion U> Berbice: meet- 

 ing to be held at New Amsterdam. 



Wednesday, January 18. Visit to Plantation 

 Diamond in the morning. Closing session of 

 the Conference in the afternoon. Those dele- 

 gates froui the other colonies who mav wish to 

 do so may leave, by Pickford & Black steamer, 

 in the evening. In this connexion, it may be 

 mentioned that Messrs. Pickford &: Black will 

 be approached with a view to their making 

 arrangcuii'nts for this steamer to call atCirenada 

 and St. Vincent, for the convenience of the 

 delegates from those colonies. 



The projiosal has been made, on behalf of the 

 Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society, t'j hold 

 a Conversazione and President's Reception, on one 

 evening among the dates given above, to which the 

 members of the Conference will be invited. Ic is 

 hoped that arrangements will be made for two lectures, 

 illustrated by lantern jiictures, to be giv^n on rubber- 

 growing. If this plan is found to be feasible, one of 

 the lectures will be on rubber-growing in the Eastern 

 Hemisphere, by Dr. Cramer, and the othei- on rubber- 

 growing on the Western Continent, by Mr. F. A. Stock- 

 dale, B.A, F.LS., Assistant Directcjr of Agriculture, 

 British (Juiana. Other collateral meetings, at which 

 treatment of subjects of interest to the delegates will 

 be given, are doubtless to be arranged. 



At the meeting of the Committee described above, 



Professor Harrison announced that free passes over 

 their lines would be issued to the delegates by the 

 Demerara Railway Company, and that similar passes 

 will be gi\en to the delegates by Messrs. Spmstons, Ltd., 

 for use on theii- steamers. He stated, besides this, that 

 the Deuii-rara Electric Company had offered to place 

 two cars at the disposal of the Committee, on any 

 afternoon during the sittings of the Conference, in 

 order to afford opportunities of riewing Georgetown 

 and its precincts. There is no doubt that delesrates 

 will give full appreciation to offers of such an accept- 

 able and helpful nature. 



After the business of the meeting had been 

 completed, the Imperial Corrmissioner of Aoriculture 

 thanked the Committee and sub-committee for the very 

 thorough and excellent manner in which the prelimin- 

 ary arrangements for the Conference had been made 

 b}- thi-m, and expressed apjireciation of the irenerous 

 assistance that had been proffered by the v;,iious 

 authorities. In continuation. Dr. Watts explained that 

 the fact of the holding of several previous conferences 

 had given sufficient means of indicating their scope 

 and purposes. Their success in the past had afforded 

 the best evidence of their utility. After reviewing the 

 programme of meetings and excursions, the Commis- 

 sioner ex])lained shortly the reason why the Agricul- 

 tural Conferences were held in .January. It was 

 simply a matter of the con i-enience of the delegates who 

 ■were actively engaged in agricultural jiursuits. esjiecially 

 in such islands as Barbados, Antigua, and St. Kitts, 

 where the conditions of the sugar industr\ made it 

 very inexjiedicnt that they should leave their work at 

 any other time of the year. Finally, in expi-essing his 

 appreciation of the programme pre.sented for hisconsid- 

 er.ition. Dr. Watts reiterated his thanks to the Com- 

 mittee and suit-committee, making special reference to 

 the work of Professor Harrison, as Chairman. 



It only remains to be stated that the iMrly prepar- 

 ation of the papers to be read by the delegates at the 

 Conference will be of much assistance in carrying out 

 the labours of organization in connexion with it. It 

 need hardly be said that those members of the commun- 

 ity who are interested in agriculture should give the 

 delegates all the information and aid in their power, 

 with the object of ensuring that matters of agricultural 

 interest in the various colonies are fully brought for- 

 ward. The papers should be presenteil in as concise 

 a form as may be found expedient, in order that the 

 time at the disposal of members, during the meetings, 

 may be made of the greatest po.ssible use. 



