The Minor Industries. is 
from 1905-1909 no less than 3,278,683 lb. Nor do we find that the exports 
have shrunk in sugar during these years, our totel having been 555,984 tons. 
Happily now we find that the fact that any colony which relies solely on 
one product for its prosperity, nay for its actual existence, stands in a perilous 
position, has taken deep root in the minds of proprietors of sugar estates, 
and already the fruit of this growth can be seen in the fact that efforts at grow- 
ing rubber, limes and coconuts are being made on an extensive scale, by the 
sheer force of will of the proprietors themselves. wh many years ago aban- 
doned that ccnservative policy which was often adopted by their representa- 
tives in the colony, some of whom were honest enough to have nothing to do 
with any attempt of this kind and bluntly told their employers so, others of 
whom possibly “played” at establishing other crops and saw to it that any 
attempts were complete and hopeless failures. 
But the interest of the proprietor, once awakened, was not to be so easily 
put to sleep again, and this is a very healthy sign. He very soon showed in 
some instances, that he was in deadly earnest and at least a start in the right 
direction has now been made. 
Then came upon the colony the effects of the wonderful “boom ” in rubber, 
and though we may not have taken that advantage of such an opportunity 
that we should have, yet we do possess companies engaged in growing Para 
tubber. Again the idea of growing limes on British soil possibly to prevent 
any Sicilian monopoly of citrate of lime, resulted in an English Company send- 
ing out an expert to the West Indies to report upon the suitability of soils, ete., 
for the growing of limes on a large scale in this part of the worla. Happily 
British Guiana, for 2 variety of reasons, was definitely settled on, and with 
the result that in more than one place limes are being grown on a really com- 
mercial scale. Difficulties mmumerable have been met, but they have been 
surmounted ; the idea that nothing serious was involved and that such crops 
shoulc not be taken as earnestly as the cultivation of canes, was imbued even 
in the mind of the ordinary labourer, who, just a short time ago, considered it 
was a privilege of his that, for work outside a sugar plantation, wages which he 
would consider fair and reasonable if offered by the manager of a sugar estate 
should be scoffed at when offered by a lime or rubber planter. Hven he 
considered the whole idea of growing such crops as something to be laughed 
at, something which he might fairly exploit for his own benefit by demanding 
unfair wages out of all proportion to the value of the work to bedone. Gradu- 
ally this has been displaced. This too is a healthy sign. In the hands of 
properly trained men, equipped with a knowledye of local prices for clearing 
forest lands, weeding and shovel work, who enferced discipline as strict as that 
exacted on a sugar estate, in short of men who knew their business and who 
intended to qo it, there has developed already the idea that after all the cultiva- 
tion of these subsidiary products, as we hope they will prove to be, is not a 
mere farce, something to be jeered at and ridiculed. Though, perhaps not much, 
this is something. For already we have, on the one hand, sugar proprietors 
growing these crops on an extensive scale, and various companies actively 
engaged in this direction also; on the other hand they are now being regarded 
