Report 6f the Agricultural Cd'miMtte(i': S. 



must in future be followed with the view of obtaining, by 

 patient application and careful economy, n>oderSte agri- 

 cultural returns. ■ ''• '-•'■"' 



The Committee heartily trusts that the JhUM will haVe 

 so far recovered by the close of next year from the effects 

 of recent misfortunes, as to permit the; planters to aiffoM to 

 the ensuing Exhibition their best countenance and su()i)ort. 

 This support is rerjuired to enable the Royal Society to 

 extend, through the medium of its Agricilltural Commit- 

 tee, the circle of its operations, and of its endeaVour^ to 

 promote improvement in our Colonial cultivation generally, 

 hut more particularly in that of our only staple a(n4 dlifJs 

 intelligent manufacture. .r-o=. :,. i 



For it appears to be time that our Planters sfeoOld bfestir 

 themselves and seriously consider what can best be done, 

 in their present difficuit position, towards amelioration in 

 both of these branches of our principal industry; with the 

 determination to give immediate practical effect to such 

 jilans for improvement as may prove accessible to them. 



The mean market value of the different qualities of su*- 

 gar produced at the following places are thus established by 

 London Prices Current of IS'*" and 29'* July last : 



Havana 43/6 43/3. 



West India .... 39/10 '/, 37/6. 



Porto Rico ... . 39/ 39/. 



Bahia. 36/ 4'/, 38/. 



Java 38/ 38/. 



Pernambuco ... 37/ 36/9. 



Rio 37/ 36/9. 



Manilla 37/ 36/6. 



Mauritius 36/10 36/3. 



Bengal 34/9 35/3. 



Madras 33/9 33/9. 



