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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



EXTRACTS FROM MINUTES. 



The usual monthly meeting of the Board of Agriculture was 

 held on Tuesday 1 2th December, present : Hon. H. Clarence Bourne, 

 Colonial Secretary, Chairman, the Director of Public Gardens, 

 the Island Chemist, the Superintending Inspector of Schools, His 

 Grace the Archbishop, Mr. G. D. Murray and the Secretary. 



The following letters from the Colonial Secretary were sub- 

 mitted : — 



1. re W. I. Agricultural Conference intimating that the propo- 



sal for holding the Agricuhural Conference in Jamaica 

 next year had been definitely abandoned owing to insu- 

 perable difficulties in transport. 



2. Sending copy of letter from Imperial Institute re Cotton 



Cultivation and asking the Board to comply with the re- 

 quest made that the Imperial Institute should be kept in- 

 formed of the progress of cotton cultivation in the Colo- 

 nies and that reports or special information should be 

 regularly forwarded. Also asking that the Board might 

 consider it desirable to send additions to the standard 

 collection of cotton referred to. 



This was directed to be circulated. 



3. Asking whether the Board of Agriculture could arrange for 



the syllabus in connection with the proposal to confer the 

 Jamaica Scholarship on Agricultural Students. 



With reference to the last letter, His Grace the Archbishop said 

 that a Committee of the Schools Commission consisting of the 

 Chief Justice and Mr. Capper had considered the various matters 

 involved and had made a report, a precis of which he read. He 

 suggested that the matter might wait over a month until this report 

 had been considered and adopted by the Commission at its first 

 meeting and sent to the Governor. 



After discussion it was accordingly resolved to hold over con- 

 sideration of the matter until next meeting. 



(The Chairman here left the meeting as he had to attend a meet- 

 ing of the Privy Council and he asked the Director of Public 

 Gardens to take the Chair.) 



The Secretary submitted letters on the subject of Jamaica 

 Tobacco and Mr. Chalmers' experiment in blending with Virginia 

 Tobacco for use in the Navy, which were directed to be circulated. 



The Secretary read letter from Mr. Robert Thomson suggesting 

 that a report he had made on agriculture in the parish of Man- 

 chester with special reference to packing of oranges might be 

 published in the Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. 



It was pointed out that this report had been made to Mr. Haggart 

 and published in the newspapers, but had not been sent either to 



