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should contribute a definite sum to the funds of the Committee, part of 

 which might be devoted to extending the prize-list. 



6. That the Committee provide coops for the exhibition of poultry, 

 such coops being ot uniform size, made of skeleton frame and wire 

 netting. 



7, That in consideration of the pronounced success of these Shows, 

 and the desirability of beginning arrangements in good time, early 

 application be made to the Government for the usual grant of five 

 hundred dollars f^$Soo) towards the prize- list of the Show. 



The Committee have further to bring to the notice of the Society the 

 appended special reports on the exhibits of classes E. & F. made by the 

 Judges of those classes ; and, in view of the importance of many of the 

 remarks thereon, and the possible trade and development in many 

 industrial pursuits of the Colony, the Committee recommend that the 

 report be published for general information. 



J. B. Harrison, Chairman, 

 J. J. QuELCH Secretary. 



Appended is the report referred to above ; — 



Report of the Judges in Classes E. and F. of the Horticultural and 

 Poultry Show, held in the Promenade Gardens, Georgetown, on August 

 20th, 1896:— 



It was very evident to us at first sight that a very great increase in 

 the number of the exhibits in these classes had taken place as compared 

 with those shewn in the two preceding years. The following briefly 

 indicates the various points which struck us during our examination of 

 the exhi oit. 



Class E. Economic Products. 

 Section I. — Open tc Amateur Exhibitors. 



I. Coffee (cleanedj. — The sample to which we awarded first prize was 

 an excellent sample of creole coffee of almost perfect colour and very 

 well cleaned, its only defefl being in some irregularity of the sizes of 

 the beans. That to which the second prize was awarded was distinftly 

 inferior to the former, but still was a sample of high class coffee of not 

 such perfefl colour, and not quite so well cleaned. 



The other samples exhibited were ot inferior colour, and in many 

 cases the beans were very imperfeftly cleaned. We would impress 

 upon cultivators that if ever this Colony is to again attain eminence in 

 coffee produftion, it is essential for every care to be exercised so as to 



