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suggestion which is equally applicable to questions affecting 
diseases due to Fungi, and one from which if adopted excellent 
results may be anticipated in the future. 
Sugar is still the dominant crop of Trinidad, Demerara and 
Barbados, and there has been a very large expenditure in the 
remodelling of factories and in their equipment with the latest types 
of machinery, but on some estates at least it would appear that 
greater attention should be given to the improvement of the actual 
cultivation of the canes and to questions of crop rotation. These 
most important. matters are occupying the serious attention of the 
Agricultural Departments and nowhere more so than in British 
Guiana, and I gathered, were beginning to receive due consideration 
on some of the large estates around San Fernando in Trinidad. 
When staying with Mr. Norman Lamont at Palmiste during the 
week after the Conference, I paid a visit with him to the Usine 
t. Madeleine, a very large factory fitted with all the latest 
machinery for the manufacture of sugar. Unfortunately it was not 
in working order, but under the guidance of the engineer I made a 
thorough examination of the various machines and apparatus 
connected with the making of the sugar and also for the distilling 
of rum. 
On the following day Mr. Lamont kindly took me to see 
the smaller factory of Malgré Toute, near Prince’s Town, and I 
was able to follow the whole process of manufacture by modern 
machinery which afforded considerable contrast to the Muscovado 
process seen in Barbados. ere oil fuel was being used in 
addition to megass and the use of petroleum will no doubt increase 
largely in the course of a few years. The megass will then tend to 
become a product, for which there will be no use in the factory, 
and already it is being used near Port of Spain for making a goo 
tough brown paper, and it may also be found profitable to return it 
to th d as manure. Though the season was later than usual 
owing to the absence of rain I was fortunate in being able to se 
the harvesting of the cane, the preparation of sets for replanting 
and the most approved process of sugar manufacture. 
The present position and possible improvements in the 
ton.— 
Cotton industry provided an interesting morning’s discussion, 
fibre is common in West Indian Cotton and is a serious defect which 
lowers its value. In selecting cottons attention should be devoted to 
eliminating those with weak fibres. In the course of the discussion 
it was brought out that the condition of the lint depended to some 
extent on cultivation and that the proper development of the cotton 
was largely a factor of nutrition. In cotton generally there is a 
tendency for the lint to be collected at one end of the seed rather 
