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tions"— have the objectors ever stopped to consider that this means 

 that the pigs shall be kept in a stye, or acrawl, that, the manure shall 

 be put on to the cultivation, instead of the pigs sleeping under the 

 house and the manure lying there to cause lever in the whole family, 

 I hardly think so, or that objection would not be made. I trust, 

 however, that from what 1 have said that the Board will try their 

 best, not only to keep the scheme going, but to extend it to Holdings 

 up to fifty*acres, as well as to augment the number of Instructors, so 

 that the 'interest stirred up by the scheme may be fully utilised by 

 being converted into systematic and eontinuous effort. I trust also 

 that gentlemen opposing the scheme will not take it amiss when 1 say 

 that the only harm being done, or the only way money is likely to be 

 wasted is by their opposing the scheme. Gentlemen holding the 

 high official position of Mr. Allwood are listened to very respectfully 

 when they make utterances which are reported in the newspapers. 

 People are apt to infer from his opposing the scheme that the Govern- 

 ment are already repenting of doing good and will soon return to the 

 old evil ways. 



" There is one more side to the question which I should like to- 

 put before your Boards, and that is, that people are already preparing 

 for the next competition, and also that many holdings have been much 

 improved by its influence although not entered for the competition. 

 Several people said in a superior tone that they " didn't want Buckra 

 prize fe mek dem clean up dem place, if dem only enter, dem must 

 tek prize." The great point is that they cleaned up their places in a 

 way which they never would have done had it not been for the Prize 

 Holding Scheme. I would like to convey to your Boards my high 

 appreciation of the work of Mr. Arnett, and to point out the indebted- 

 ness they are under to him for the honest painstaking hard work 

 which he has so ungrudingly given for the benefit of the people, in 

 helping them with the judging in the Small Holdings Prize Scheme. 

 I believe Mr. Arnett is to receive the sum of five pounds for his fifteen 

 days' work ; during these fifteen days we travelled not less than 

 480 miles in the buggy, 50 in the saddle, and nearly 100 on foot. 

 Gentlemen who know Westmoreland roads generally, and remember 

 that the settlers are usually located on the worst of these, will 

 appreciate our labours and not grudge Mr. Arnett his five pound 

 note. Gentlemen who know the roads round Kilmarnock particu- 

 larly had, I think, better be left to speak for themselves. I do not 

 feel capable of saying anything about the roads in this district without 

 hurting the feelings of the Parochial Boards of Westmoreland and 

 St. Elizabeth. 



" With regard to my own share in the work. I have ungrudgingly 

 worked 1 4 hours a day because 1 know that I must reap a rich reward 

 in the minds of the peasantry, even if I do not in that of the entire 

 Boards ; although I hope to be accorded that as soon as the scheme 

 and its benefits are fully understood by them. And 1 am perfectly 

 willing to go on doing this tor the scheme, but I could not promise to 

 do as much for any other scheme not having the same object in view, 

 as I feel that without this scheme the Agricultural Society so far as 

 the peasantry are concerned is of very little use. 



" 1 append a letter from the Rev. G. H. Lopp. Moravian Minister 

 at Carmel. Newmarket, himself an agriculturist of great skill from 



