Report of the Agricultural Commillee. 19. 



Iroin iisiiig this lime, but only one of them is of a precise 

 nature. It is from Mr. D'Aguel at «Phoenix,u who states 

 that he obtained his defecation with a solution of time 

 waler, made from the lime supplied by Mr. Bojer, at a 

 densrty of 10° Baume, whereas it required the like quantity 

 of a solution at 14.°, made from the lime of the country, to 

 efTect clarification ; with this difference, however, that the 

 former was beautifully clear, and limpid, atid much supe- 

 rior to the latter. 



The Committee may have a future opportunity oi record- 

 ing further experiments with the lime in question: but, in 

 the meantime, such planters as are desirous to profit by 

 these huits, might make arrangements for importing, at a 

 trifling cost, the small quantity of lime stone which they 

 may require. 



The importance of attention t© the manufacture of our 

 staple, at the present conjuncture, is the more evident as a 

 preceding extract has shewn that the Cabanos are quite alive 

 to the consequences of the abolition of slavery amongst them, 

 and are endeavouring to prepare for such an event; and, 

 seeing the economy and skill they are reported to practise in 

 ihe production of their sugar, it would be extremely improvi- 

 dent en our part to rely solely for relief on such a casualty 

 as the emancipation of iheir slaves. The extract from the 

 address of the West India Association, given at the beginning 

 of this Report, has this point in view; but it sets forth 

 also other grounds of hope, the source of which is in our 

 our own hands, and depend upon our own exertions. 

 The heavy expense at which the industry was supported 

 here during the last few years, may have had the eflect of 

 retarding the proaress of improvement, because it is 

 necessarily attended with a certain amount of oulij) ; and 



