192 TIMEHRI. 
The Honorary Treasurer laid over the list of unpaid 
subscriptions for the current year, which in accordance 
with the By-Laws was dire€ted to be posted in tbe 
Reading Room. 
The annexed report of the Agricultural Committee 
was read :— 
Georgetown, 
May 12th, 1897. 
To the President and Members 
of the R. A. & C. Society. 
Gentlemen,—In accordance with the Government Regulations under 
which the Agricultural Committee ot the Society are entitled to free 
analyses of articles of public interest by the Government Analyst, I have 
the honour to forward five analyses of clean rice, paddy and oats, which 
have been made at the request of the Committee. 
By dire&tion of the Committee.I also forward a paper by Professor 
J. B. Harrison, on “ The results of recent scientific researches into the 
agricultural improvement of the Sugar Cane.”* 
I have &c., 
S. BELLAIRS, 
Hon. Sec., Agricultural Committe, 
Government Laboratory, 
Georgetown, Demerara, 
May 11th, 1897. 
Sir,—I have the honour to forward herewith five certificates of analysis 
relating tothe samples of Colony grown and imported rice, of dried and 
green paddy, and of oats, sent to me for analysis by the Agricultural 
Committee in the month of April. 
You will notice that the samples of Colony grown rice compare 
very favourably with the one of imported rice. The grains of the 
Colony rice were distinctly larger in size than were those of the imported 
samples. 7 - 
The Colony rice was slightly richer in albuminoids, fat and starch 
than was the imported rice, and hence possessed in a slight degree the 
higher nutritive value. This may be due to the faét that it was evidently 
the better cleaned sample. | 
* See page 84. 
