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country making it convenient for the construction of tram lines, 
with the excellent roads already existing, should enable the canes 
o i cos 
Probably nowhere else in the West Indies, except possibly in 
Antigua, could sugar be produced at so low a cost as i 
bados. 
113. Amongst the ieia class of (eok people cane farming 
might eventually beco an important means of utilising the 
estates. This class could raise canes by the labour of themselves 
and their families more cheaply than the estates, and it would be 
to the general advantage of the community to encourage cane 
farming, as thereby the area under c pae would possibly be 
increased, and a class of labour not otherwise productive would 
be contributing to the wealth of the Colony. 
114. In aid of kean sugar econ try valuable work has been carried 
(M 
— of the Botanic Station at Dodds. These investiga- 
ons have been directed to: (1) the effect ot manures; (2) the 
Mise tae tie value of already existing varieties of the sugar-cane ; 
(3) the raising of new varieties of igartea ne from seed, and an 
ft va as co 
E iseases 
published since 1886 AB a — and summarising the 
results for the raon of pla 
115. In 1888 it was shown at nA Tak Botanic Station to be 
possible in a systematic manner to raise canes from seed, and 
advantage has been taken of this every year to produce seedlings 
differing from all known varieties. These are multiplied by pro- 
pagation from cuttings, and the more promising ones are planted 
in plots and reaped and analysed. The results have shown that 
seedlings can be raised giving a heavy yield per acre and juice of 
high quality ; that when certain seedlings are cultivated side by 
upon the Rouse cane. Whe enever the eine of seedlings 
raised elsewhere has warranted it, specimens have been procured 
m other stations. The station = has supplied seedlings to 
various parts of the world. 
BOTANIC STATION. 
[The Botanic Station is attached to the boys’ reformatory school 
at Dodds, and the labour of the inmates is utilised to aiii 
i e The f 
h was 
umerous sea of ca were obtained from Jamaica 
and ‘elsewhere, and, in arcane with Professor Harrison, 
