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canes so burnt that they did not spring after the crop 

 was cleared away. In most cases however he had seen 

 trash burning carried out without injury and he even 

 thought the ashes of some value as manure. 



Professor Harrison said the burning could only be 

 valuable mechanically, as the ashes had no manurial 

 value. 



The President thought that if the eyes of the canes 

 were burnt it was because the stools were too high 

 above the ground. He had never seen a field in Berbice 

 fail to spring on this account — on the contrary the canes 

 seemed to come up better. 



Mr. F. C. Thorpe then read his paper on " Changes 

 on Sugar Estates in British Guiana from 1865 to the 

 present time."* 



On the motion of the President a vote of thanks was 

 accorded. 



The meetine: then terminated. 



Meeting held August pM.— Hon. A. Weber, Vice- 

 President, in the chair. 



Members present 13. 

 Ele6lions. — Members: Mr. G. A. Stewart. 



Associates : Messrs. Thos. H. Chatterton^ 

 J. S. Macarthur and W. A. L. Langstaff. 

 The following report from the Committee of Corres- 

 pondence was read : — 



Georgetown, August gih, 1894. 

 To the President and Members of the 

 R. A. and C. Society. 

 Gentlemen, — On behalf of the Committee of Correspondence I have 

 the honour to report that the arrangements for the Horticultural Show 



* See page 205. 



