4o8 TiMEHRI. 



The following communication from Mr. J. H. de Jonge, 

 Consul for the Netherlands, was laid over : — 



Georgetown, Demerara, 26th Sept., 1894. 

 R. T. A. Daly, Esq., Hony. Secretary, 



Royal Agricultural & Commercial Society. 



Dear Sir, — I have the honour to report that I have just received from 

 the Legation of the Netherlands in London, the following reply on the 

 subject of steam ploughing — London, Sept. 4th, 1894. 



" Referring to your letter of May 21st, No. 22, I have the honour 

 hereby to transmit to you, in behalf of the Hony. Secretary of the Royal 

 Agricultural & Commercial Society of British Guiana, a report with 

 annex, written by Iman Vanden Bosch Esq. Direflorof the Wilhelmina- 

 polder in the Province of Zeeland (Netherlands) on steam culture, which 

 report will have to be returned to this Legation in due time. The 

 Netherlandsch Landbowcomite, on whose demand Mr. Vanden Bosch 

 wrote it, begs to add that the steam- plough is harldly used in the 

 Netherlands as it is not suited for the comparatively small landed 

 properties existing there and above all as the fields are of small dimen- 

 sions and mostly divided by ditches. In the Wilhelmina polder alone 

 the steam-plough is in use." 



In conclusion, I would add, that the enclosures are in the Dutch lan- 

 guage, but that it would not be difficult for the Society to get the 

 essay translated. 



I have, &c., 



J. H. i)E JONGE, Consul. 



STEAM PLOUGHING ON THE WILHELMIN.\ POLDER. 



To the R. A. and Commercial Society. 



In reply to your enquiries concerning Steam Ploughing, I have the 

 honour to forward the following information : — 



In regard to the faft that it is desirable to introduce Steam- Ploughing, 

 this depends very much on the presence of different faftors, and I 

 found it better not to confine my report exclusively to answering the 

 questions. 



I therefore divide my report into the following parts : — 



1. The original calculation on which Steam Ploughing was intro- 

 duced in the Wilhelmina Polder. 



