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Trinidad, has laid before us splendid data on various aspects 

 of cocoa planting. If we had been able to examine this paper 

 beforehand we would have had a very interesting discussion 

 on that paper alone, not to speak of others. I hope that the 

 next time Professor Carmody brings us one of these very 

 important compilations, we will all be able to discuss it 

 thoroughly. 



If a great number of papers come in, it is not possible to 

 discuss them all in the same section. A congress should be split 

 up into a great number of different sections. For instance, 

 those people who are interested in cotton could come together 

 and discuss cotton for one, two, or three days. Those 

 interested in cocoa could meet in another room and deal with 

 cocoa for several days. In that manner also we should be 

 able to get to know better our Colonial colleagues interested 

 in our own subjects. 



I would propose, too, that some new sections should be 

 introduced in future congresses. It occurs to me that the 

 three International Congresses so far held have dealt only with 

 tropical cultivation and tropical crops. Now that is only one 

 part of tropical agriculture. For instance, there is the raising 

 of cattle the animal industry which is a most important 

 matter. It would be much better that our Congress should 

 consider everything that appertains to tropical agriculture. 

 These are the principal propositions I have to make. 



Dr. C. J. J. VAN HALL (Netherlands and Netherland East 

 Indies) : Mr. President Now that this Congress is coming to a 

 close, I am sure that we all feel it has been really a success, 

 and at the same time we know that this success is largely 

 due to you and your collaborators, your able secretaries, 

 and to the many other gentlemen who have worked to 

 make these days as instructive and at the same time as 

 agreeable as possible. We highly appreciate the fact that 

 several of your most prominent men have taken the chair, 

 and have told us their views, sometimes in a few words, but 

 always in instructive and interesting words. It is said some- 

 times that the use and importance of these congresses is not 

 so much within the congress hall as outside; and I feel con- 

 vinced that outside the hall the English people have tried to 

 make us feel that we were also of great importance and of 

 great usefulness. Most of us, as tropical men, have already 

 had much opportunity of admiring and enjoying English 

 hospitality in the colonies. I always remember in the West 

 Indies the Departments of Agriculture displayed not only a 

 scientific but also a very friendly hospitality, and now that we 

 have been in the position of enjoying also that hospitality in 

 England, I can assure you that we highly appreciate it. I 



