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the Hon. J. V. Calder to form a permanent committee of the Board, 

 and the members could consuh with the headmasters of prominent 

 schools with a view to coming to an arrangement as to the teach- 

 ing of agricultrnx in schools. 



The Archbishop said there might be difficulties in the way of 

 country schools. There should be no privileges allowed to the 

 Jamaica College which could not be equally available to other 

 schools, but recommendations were easier carried out there owing 

 to its proximity to Kingston. It ought to be possible for us to do 

 for agriculture in Jamaica what was being done in Barbados. 



The Chairman said the Committee might be invited to consider 

 and submit recommendations to open the Jamaica Scholarship for 

 Agricultural Scholarships. 



School gardens — The Chairman then read a minute from the 

 Chemist upon School Gardens and essential changes in the Code, 

 pointing out that a considerable number of teachers had now been 

 trained, that the present regulations of the Code tended rather to 

 discourage than encourage the general establishment of School 

 Gardens and making suggestions whereby the grants for agricul- 

 tural object lessons and School Gardens should be so increased 

 that all country schools would find it necessary and profitable to 

 take up this work. 



The Chairman announced that it had been decided by the 

 Government to appoint a special committee to enquire into the 

 matter and to make recommendations. 



Cotton. — The Secretary submitted the following matters in con- 

 nection with the cotton industry : — 



(a) Copy of letter from Sir Daniel Morris stating that he would 

 probably visit Jamaica in October in company with two cotton 

 expert buyers, who would come to the West Indies on behalf of the 

 British Cotton Growing Association, and that he was impressed by 

 the high opinion that had been formed of West Indian Cotton in 

 Liverpoool, where brokers had assured him they could receive at 

 least 30,000 bales of Sea Island Cotton without affecting prices. 



(b) Letter from the Hon. T. H. Sharp informing the Board that 

 he was prepared to buy seed cotton and ginned cotton of every 

 variety and all that the island could produce, if the seed cotton 

 was delivered at Spanish Town and the ginned cotton at 3 Orange 

 St., Kingston. He would give the very highest price possible and 

 submit account sales of cotton sold in England for the Secretary 

 to fix price. 



(c) Secretary's report on the cotton industry as follows : — 

 That he had forwarded one of the cotton hand gins to Mr. J. 



Shore and one to the Secretary of the Black River Agricultural So- 

 ciety ; that the freight was to be charged to the account of the £lOO 

 grant received from the British Cotton Growing Association ; that 

 the other two hand gins were stored pending disposal by the Board ; 

 that he had applications from Messrs. R. L. Young, L. A. Hopwood 



