378 TIMEHRI. 
Commercial Society on the increased success of the sec- 
tion of the Show dealing with economic produéts. Our 
remarks of last year in the concluding paragraph of our 
report apply equally to the exhibits shewn this year, and 
we must emphasize the faét that if success is to be hoped 
for in meeting the critical demands of foreign markets, 
far more care and knowledge must be exercised in the 
preparation of the articles. We, at the samé time, fully 
recognise that this has been emphatically this year a 
small producers’ Show, the great majority of the larger 
growers refraining from exhibiting. But our small 
producers are faétors of great economic importance in 
the general welfare of the Colony, and they are the 
‘people to whom it is desirable that the annual Show 
should appeal. For instance, in the case of Coffee, dif- 
ferent degrees of care in the picking, curing and cleaning 
will make differences of from £1 to £2 per cwt. in the 
selling value of the produ& in the London market, and 
similarly with Cacao. Possibly in certain cases this year 
exhibitors in this section have found reasons for question- 
ing the corre€tness of our adjudications, but in the cases 
of Cacao, Coffee and similar produéts we felt it our duty, 
as a rule, to lay more stress upon the preparation of the 
articles for market than upon properties due to cultural 
and soil conditions. 
B. HOWELL JONES, 
Chairman of the Agricultural Committee, Royal 
: Agricultural & Commercial Society. 
J. B. HARRISON, 
Government Analyst. 
Georgetown, 
Oétober, 1897. 
