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42. There is also a class of Europeans in the Colony were: that 
ine usefully direct their attention to these Crown lan 
e described by Mr. Jenman as “chiefly of British birth and 
rs iban excellent training for the successful me mical 
“management of agricultural enterprises.” Thes bya over- 
seers of sugar estates, who at present supply the anes ome back- 
bone of the great staple industry of the country. Owing to the 
ment. These me h 
climate should prove most valuable as pioneet in opening up the 
Crown lands of the Colony. Many are men “ who possess skill 
“and ingenuity in dealing with difficulties, and tact in the 
“management of workpeople 180 the patience to 
“wait during the ve Sin required for the property to be 
create n, starting with a small capital, care- 
“ fully counting the ak jaca d . . . and adapting their 
“ undertakings to their means, could not . . . fail to succeed.” 
Should an appreciable number of the sugar estates in the Colony 
be thrown out of cultivation, or amalgamated to form larger 
properties, a, of the present overseers will no longer be 
required. It would be a wise policy on the part of Government to 
make on ee aati of lands, under rain pean saat to a selected 
number of these men, and endeavour to keep them in the Colony. 
They would form the nucleus of a very valuable Per EEn for 
the e apua of new industries. 
. The class of small farmer, or black peasant, is not a large 
one in British Guiana. It is chiefly confined at present to the 
negro villages on the coast, and t o the su gar estates, where pe 
of land are rented for growing Pedera hex a visions. It i 
evidence that many of the latter, as sis some of the free edatiea, 
are anxious to obtain lands of their own, nein are prepared to pay 
reasonable prices for them The Government has already in hand 
a scheme whereby these people are to be settled on estates bought 
for the purpose. On the coast, both negroes and coolies readily 
take up land, but there is always a a difficulty as to the maintenance 
special difficulty. The coolie immigrants take so readily to rice 
cultivation, and the raising of small stock and poultry, that for 
some time, at least, they would find . advantageous to settle on or 
, how 
cued the coast lan ds. ome, however, might be engaged on coffee 
cacao estates on the river nde, where already, greed md 
iractability a ee habits, they have proved of yi ce. 
44. To rol and encourage the means here suggeste for 
settling he pee lands of British Guinn: it is desea to form 
a permanent Board of Agriculture, composed of nominated mem- 
whom three or four, at least, should be Government 
officials. This board should be supported by public mee and 
devote itself entirely to the work of promoting su iary 
industries. A board, as here indicated, was strongly eran 
