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ing the breed of both cattle and sheep, and they 
trusted that its efforts to awaken a desire for emulation 
would produce results beneficial to the cattle farmers as 
well as the colony. 
As a matter of the greatest importance they had to 
notice that an Agricultural Chemist might soon be 
expected to arrive in the colony, the Legislature having 
placed a salary for such an officer on the estimate, 
together with the requisite funds for fitting up a labo- 
ratory and procuring apparatus, It was confidently 
expe€ted that much benefit would be derived from the 
knowledge which an experienced Chemist would impart 
to their pra€tical planters to aid them in their labours. 
‘They had further to notice that the Society had sub- 
mitted to the Legislature a list of Premiums which it was 
desirous to award for improvements in agriculture, manu- 
fa€tures, machinery, breeding of stock and other purposes, 
and from the disposition manifested in furtherance of the 
Society’s desire to be ustful as a medium for the attain- 
ment of these objeéts, there was every reason to believe 
that the necessary aid would be procured. 
In December previous the Society had been requested 
by the Governor to give answers to certain queries as to 
the results of Emancipation, which had been secretly 
circulated throughout the colony without his sanction or 
authority. The circulation of these queries coming to 
His Excellency’s knowledge this was met by courting the 
information in an open manner so as to elicit the truth 
on every point. The Society gave in its replies which 
no doubt in time would be published. Some of these 
queries trenched upon matter of rather a political nature, 
but the Society in its replies studiously avoided all 
