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Brahmin Bulls bred in Jamaica could not be landed at New 

 Orleans. 



Hindoo Artisans from Peru — The Secretary submitted a letter 

 from the Colonial Secretary's Office forwarding copy of corres- 

 pondence with regard to a telegram from the British Minister at 

 Lima, Peru — " Many Hindu labourers and artisans leaving for 

 Kingston. ..can they obtain work on arrival ?" The Protector of 

 Immigrants wrote that on account of the drought, planters had no 

 difficulty at present in getting all the labour they wanted, which 

 was proved by the fact that notwithstanding the recent reductj on 

 of the Indenture fee for East Indian Immigrants to £17 10s. per 

 unit, applications for only 589 Immigrants were received ; that 

 employers would not be likely to agree to indenture East Indian 

 labourers who had not been recruited and medically certified a - 

 fit for labour in accordance with the prescribed Government pro- 

 cedure. 



Certain members of the Board expressed the opinion that Hin 

 dus from Peru might not be a desirable class of persons to mix 

 with our people here. 



There were no reports from the Chemist. 



The following reports from the Director of Public Gardens 

 were submitted : 



1. Hope Experiment Station. 



2. Instructors. 



3. Letters from Mr. P. W. Murray, Instructor of School gar- 



dens. 

 Mr. Cradwick, re School Gardens. 

 Nos. 1 and 2 were directed to be circulated ; the latter were 

 read and tabled. 



The following papers which had been circulated were now sub- 

 mitted for final consideration : 



(a) Appropriation Accounts, Government Laboratory, 1906-7 



(b) Finance Accounts, Board of Agriculture Deposits, 1906-7 



(c) Report, Hope Experiment Station. 



(d) Mr. Briscoe's Report and Itinerary. 



(e) Mr. Crawick's Itinerary. 



(f) Report by Mr. Cradwick on Cocoa trees in St. Mary. 



(g) Re Vanilla. 



A discussion ensued on the attacks of Fiddler grubs on Cocoa 

 trees and the best method of dealing with the pest. 



The Chemist stated that he had imported a fresh supply of Bi- 

 sulphide of Carbon for the use of planters at cost price, if they 

 applied for it. 



The usual monthly meeting of the Board of Agriculture was held 

 at Headquarter House on 17th July: present — Hon. H. Clarence 

 Bourne, Colonial Secretary, the Acting Director of Public Gardens, 

 His Grace the Archbishop, the Island Chemist, the Superintending 

 Inspector of Schools, Messrs. C. E. DeMercado, G. D. Murray, 

 Conrad Watson, and John Barclay, Secretary. 



Arrowroot — The Secretary reported that he had written to the 

 managers of all the hospitals in the island asking whether they 



