JAMAICA. 



BXJLTjBTIN: 



OF THE 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Vol. II. FEBRUARY, 1904. Part 2. 



COTTON. 



A Conference on Cotton was held at the Institute, Kingston, on the 

 12th November, and Sir D. Morris, who was on his way back from the 

 United States, kindly gave an address embodying in its ishort comp ss 

 the information that he had been able to acquire in his travels through 

 the Sea Island Cotton di&tricts. 



On Sir D. Morris's arrival in Barbados, a Cotton Conference was 

 held on 11th Dec , for the purpose of learning the results of his visit 

 to the States, and his address, containing fuller information is published 

 below. 



It will interest many to have a statement of actual expenditure for 

 the cultivation of cotton in Jamaica in the year 1842, and this is 

 reprinted from the " Votes of the House of Assembly." 



Instructions for planting cotton are added 



Cotton Conference.* 



Sir Daniel Morris said:— This meeting has been called a conference 

 because I prefer to meet the planters in conferenC'^ for the mutual 

 exchange of ideas and of information with regard to the matter that 

 we have in hand. As you are aware, ever since the Imperial Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture was established in the West Indies the desire of 

 every member of that department hus been to c me ir^to close contact 

 with the planters in all parts of the West Indies We wish to- work 

 in harmony and sympathy with those gentlemen, and we are glad to 

 have an opportunity like the present, when we can obtain their views 

 and ideas, and ascertain what are the particular difficulties they have 

 to contend with. We fully realise that in every department of agri- 

 culture there are numerous difficulties that have to be overcome or else 

 we cannot reap the fruits of our labours. Now with regard to the 

 question of establishing a 



COTTON INDUSTRY. 



The first time I brought the matter before the planting community 

 in the West Indies was at a meetmg held in Barbados in February 



*The Barbados Advocate, 19th December, 1903. 



