Banana cultivation has been taken up on a moderate scale. 

 At first the results were the reverse of 



iience of cli- Michel variety which 



hen cultivated. By the substitution of the Governor banana 

 (a local name for the Dwarf or Canary banana 

 and rotation of crops, the disr been got under control and 



recently has not caused serious tremble. The Banana- 

 shij ped r to the British West Indian Fin:' my at 



Southampton by the Royal Mail Attain Packet Company's 

 The fruit d and travels well. In 



1910-11 the sale of bananas realized *7.9' 



-dinin- (including rent <>f land "11 1~> leiv. 



balance of S-- ( > ( >! 9.1 on cultiv.it: : es. 



lanurial experim "Ut by the Depirt- 



rnent ha 1 n the \ . manure. Daring 1911 



imental work w;: . plots laid down 



.. Indian 

 beans and other 1 anting in all to some 



:;<> a 



River Estate. 



r Estate in 1 ' irtin in the north-west corner 



of the Island and about nine miles from 1' -;>ain was 



acquired by the Government in 1897 in :t the 



ral configura- 

 tion of the es - m op, . n i:. 

 th" >outh. On all other sides timber-covered hills rise t 



~>00 feet. 1 .iern side of the hilU 



-ea. On this lid. -ituatod the North 



Signalling and Wireless Telegraphy v and t he- 



known Blue Basin. 



soil is a light sandy loam and the average ra! 

 about 7.") inches. The flat lands forming th >f the an. 



theatre are almost all under cacao, which also extends in 

 parts up the lower slopes of the hill- rtions of the 



hills are being planted in Hevea and Britisn Honduras mahogany. 

 Later limes will probably be tried as -well. The upper slopos 

 will always be maintained under forest in order to conserve the 

 water supply, the pumping station for which (under the cont:->l 

 of the Town Board) is situated on the le\el near the Manager's 

 house. 



Originally acquired in 1897 at a cost of 4,629 11 1J the 

 March 31, 11)11, expended a further sum .f 



!1 SO in purchasing contracts and in other capital expends 

 and has already repaid 10,509 l."> S.I. It is worked by the 

 department on the same system as St. Augustine EstaU . 

 under an advance account. 



In the year 1901-0,") the number of cacao trees on the 



