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as purely saprophytic, while with us under certain con- 
ditions it assumes a parasitic form, The prevalence of 
disease among the stock of the cattle farms in the colony 
is also a matter which calls for attention by the Agricul- 
tural Committee. Unfortunately the Government Vete- 
rinary Surgeon is nota member of that Committee. As to 
minor agricultural industries, the Honourable Mr. Weber 
and Mr. Conrad have always evinced much interest in 
them. The Committee of Correspondence last year at- 
tempted to increase interest in these matters by means 
of the annual Horticultural Show. The success of the last 
Exhibition was due largely to encouraging the artisans 
and labourers of the colony to send samples of their 
handiwork and industry to the Horticultural Show. The 
result of the Show evinced most clearly that this colony 
could produce samples of articles equal to any pro- 
duced elsewhere; but the question is whether we can 
produce them in quantity at remunerative prices. I 
hopé, and I am sure that you will all join in the 
hope, that future Horticultural Shows will be still more 
successful, especially in regard to the exhibits of arti- 
sans and labourers. The Committee of Correspondence 
intended, if funds would allow, to largely extend the 
prize-list in conneétion with that seétion. They con- 
sider that they should do everything to encourage the 
artisans and labourers in taking up these minor produéts 
and imbibing a taste for agricultural practice. It ap- . 
pears to me that the chances of successfully growing 
rice, cacao, cotton, &c., are very small on the coast lands, 
and that if we are compelled to grow produéts other than 
sugar, we shall have to resort to lands far in the interior 
where we find intrusive dykes of pyroxcene diorite, 
