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The Secretary read the following letters from the Colonial 

 Secretary's Office : — 



1. Sugar Experiment Station — Intimating approval of the Esti- 



mates of Expenditure on the Sugar Experiment Station. 



2. Commercial Agent in London — Re Commercial Agent in 



London, stating that the matter of employing a Com- 

 mercial Agent in London had again been considered by 

 the Governor in Privy Council and that the Council 

 advised that the decision on the subject, conveyed in the 

 letter quoted, should be adhered to, viz. : that such an 

 agent should be appointed and maintained by the com- 

 mercial community of the colony and be entirely uncon- 

 nected with the Government. 



3. Deaths among Cattle — Forwarding letter from the Secretary 



of the Jamaica Agricultural Society reporting that after 

 making enquiry he found that the sudden deaths among 

 cattle in St. Elizabeth were not due to Anthrax, but to 

 another and easily preventable cause ; that with reference 

 to the outbreak of Texan Fever among cattle in St 

 Andrew, on enquiry he found that the cattle were in- 

 fested with ticks and that the Veterinary Surgeon called 

 in recommended thorough washing and picking of ticks, 

 and on this being done the deaths had stopped. 



4. Steam Drying Tray for Hampden Estate — Intimating the 



approval of the grant of £50 for a steam drying tray for 

 Hampden Estate as recommended by the Board if the 

 approval of the Advisory Committee was first obtained. 

 The Chemist reported that the Advisory Committee had 

 not approved and the owner of Hampden Estate had 

 withdrawn his request. 



5. Instructor for School Gardens — Enclosing Memo, from Mr. J. 



R. Williams re Mr. P. Murray's appointment as Instructor 

 of School Gardens. The recommendations of Mr. Williams 

 were approved and the Secretary was directed to send a 

 copy to theSuperintending Inspector of Schools to be com- 

 municated to Mr. Murray as his instruction from the Board 

 and a copy to the Director of Public Gardens and to the 

 Secretary of the Agricultural Society to direct the atten- 

 tion of the Instructors to the suggestions contained 

 therein. 

 Produce Buyers Law — The Secretary submitted memorandum from 

 the Rev. C. H. Coles with covering letter from His Grace the 

 Archbishop with regard to the working of the Produce Buyers 

 License Law in the Port Royal Mountains district, with memo- 

 randum from the Secretary which he had written in reply. Both 

 had been circulated and the reply of the Secretary was approved. 

 Messrs. A. A. Baker & Co., and Jamaica Rum — The Secretary 

 submitted letter from Messrs. A. A. Baker & Co., 30 Mincing Lane 

 London, calling attention to The Jamaica Rum Company of 442 

 Keizersgracht, Amsterdam, which was advertising a so-called 



