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supply should be obtained if the matter was suitable for 

 the purpose here. 

 (/) New huildi)igs at the Laboratory — Reporting that the work 

 had commenced on August 1 0th and that he had sent on 

 requisition to the Crown Agents for the experiment still 

 and boiler from a Glasgow firm whose quotation was 

 £130; that a refrigerator would come too expensive, but 

 he had designed a cool chamber to work with ice, and that 

 he received authority to purchase for £l2 lOs. a second- 

 hand 20 gallons still, fire heated, which had cost £25. 

 {g) Term's Work: mid-summer ig04 — Reportingthat two students 

 had completed their course, and wanted experience on a 

 property for a year, and that he would be glad if any 

 member of the Board would assist in this way. This 

 was directed to be circulated. 

 {h) Fermentation U'ork — Submitting Mr. Allan's report since the 

 last meeting of the Board; and asking that the Public 

 Works Department be requested to prepare the plans and 

 estimates for alterations at Denbigh Estate for a special 

 lock-still at a cost of £220 to £250 ; that authority be 

 given to print a special bulletin on Jamaica rum at the 

 cost of the Sugar Industry Fund. He was asked to draft 

 the special bulletin to be submitted first to the Board. 

 This was directed to be circulated. 

 (/) IVork of Superintendent of Sugar Experiments. 

 (/) Mr Teversham's lecture at Port Maria — Stating that he had 

 suggested that Mr. Teversham should work up the lecture 

 into three short articles for the Agricultural Journal. 

 This was directed to be circulated. 

 The Secretary submitted a report re cotton industry, stating that 

 as directed he had arranged for a vigorous cotton propaganda on 

 the Pedro Plains, that Mr. Cradwick had already held a meeting 

 in conjunction with the Black River Agricultural Society, had dis- 

 tributed Egyptian cotton seed and leaflets on cotton cultivation and 

 had arranged to return to the district in September; that Mr. C. G. 

 Farquharson at Black River had agreed to buy all the cotton offered 

 within the next two years at a price to be fixed by the Board, at 

 the same time not restricting anybody from selling elsewhere ; that 

 Egyptian cotton grown by the settlers of the Pedro Plains, collected 

 by the Rev. C. T. Rickards, had been ginned by Mr. Fursdon at 

 Hartlands, that the cotton looked poor, as it had evidently been 

 picked before it was ripe but it had however ginned out a high 

 proportion of lint, and asking authority to ship this ginned cotton 

 to London ; that he had arranged with Capt. Constantine who had 

 kindly consented to carry it freight free to Southampton; that he had 

 examined the two hand cotton gins salvaged from the S.S. "Costa 

 Rican" and had found them covered with rust, due to the action of 

 chemicals which formed part of the cargo, besides the action of the 

 salt water ; that on the authority of the Colonial Secretary he had 



