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the richest and most suitable canes, to determine for each soil the 
manures to be applied, while the most recent steer are 
introduced to economise labour to the utmost extent. 
12. In order to enlist the energies of the black people, who 
such prices for the canes as will attract the 
better class of cares and, while maintaining the industry, 
in it 
is needed to be oo where suitable conditions exist, for starting 
other industrie 
f the West Indian Colonies hen in a critical 
upon to assist the purely sugar-producing Colonies, it will be evident 
from what follows that the Windward and Leeward Islands and 
an 
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to be applied with pi Ta delay as | poonne With their uet 
of these agencies will be fatal unless the islands are to be allowed 
to drift into a condition helplessness. 
[As a special feature in the economic development n the West 
Indies a8 is desirable to mention the organisation of what are 
know otanic Stations, or small establishments suited to the 
requirements of Colonies unable to bear the expense of rn 
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and British Guiana. These Stations (Kew Bulletin, 1898 
pp. 226-227) were “first suggested in 1885, to meet the special 
requirements of the smaller islands in the West Indies (Kew 
Bulletin, 1887, June 1-12) where ‘a great want was felt for 
reliable information on the culture of new economic plants and 
plain practical hints as to the best means to be employed for 
supplemented by the eer erga! of en: with hrane 
attached, for supplying seeds and plants. The officers in charge 
of the station were men selected mostly from Kew, with a so ound 
owledge of gardening and capable of showing —— 
the conditions under which tropieal economie plants might 
be usiliond on objects of remunerative industry.’ 
