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country where the cocoa is grown, is far superior to that of the same 

 preparations made from beans which have run the risk of mouldiness, 

 fermentation, etc., during transit on board ship, we desire to draw 

 the Committee's special attention to the exhibit and recommend that a 

 special award of an honorary nature be conferred on the exhibitors. 



We were struck with the excellent exhibit of Colony-made cigars 

 shown by the Mercurius Cigar Company, and in view of the importance 

 of the venture to the Colony at large and of the encouragement which 

 the establishment of such an industry in our midst offers to the careful 

 growth and curing of tobacco in the Colony we recommend that a 

 special award of an honorary nature be conferred on the exhibitors. 

 Section II. Open to Artizans and Labourers only. 



35. Preserves..— h fair exhibit, superior to anythingof a similar nature 

 shown in the amateur se6lion, was awarded a first prize. 



36. Jellies. — No award. Same defefts as noticed in the amateur 

 seftion. 



J7. Pickles or Hot Sauce. — The samples exhibited were not of such 

 good quality as we expe6led to find they would be. 



38 Coffee (cleaned). — The cleaning of all the samples shown was 

 defeflive and the colour anything but good. A fine looking sample of 

 pea-berry coffee was exhibited of very good colour, but upon examina- 

 tion by the Judges, the lower layers in the box were found to be of very 

 inferior quality to the upper, and as in addition it did not weigh as 

 much as five pounds, it did not receive the award which its surface 

 appearence would have entitled it to. 



3Q. Liberian Coffee. — No exhibit. 



40. Cocoa.— The first prize was awarded to an exhibit from the 

 Berbice river. The beans were large and full but somewhat imper- 

 feftly cured. The exhibitor had apparently attempted, with but little 

 success, to improve the quality of his exhibit by colouring the beans. 

 If these beans had been better cured, their size and regularity would 

 have made them the best exhibited in the show. As it was, we 

 considered them as inferior in merit only to the beans which were 

 prized in the Amateur seftion. The sample to which the second prize 

 was awarded, although of fair beans, was unsatisfaftorily cleaned. 



41. Rice — Some excellent samples were exhibited, the one to which 

 the first prize was adjudicated being surpassed only by the one which 

 received the first prize in the Amateur class. Most of the exhibits 

 were somewhat marred by the presence of broken grains. 



