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regular orange trade in Grenada. The grading and packing are 
points to which special attention should be devoted. The 
Government might assist by placing the shipments under some 
system of pat lets sion to prevent the export of inferior fruit and 
supply the services of an instructor to show how the fruit should 
be handled and selected to suit the market. Other subjects that 
the trees at present existing in island should be kept clear of 
other vegetation, and extended in nares localities. According to 
there is a want of “trained professional aid in 
helping to grow new industries” and “imported professional 
skill ” to find out which products and cultivations would best 
suit the various tracts of land which make up the grand total of 
20,000 acres now lying ruinate in the Colony. Such assistance 
could be afforded by the staff at the Botanic Station, which should, 
however, be increased as suggested later on 
the whole the circumstances of Grenada are not of a 
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the interest of the cacao SEEEN sirm which r ~ EE, 
“ change should take place in a condition of things which is a 
“ healthy and beneficial one for both country and people. With 
z ‘ their properties free of mortgage sani other de a and with more 
rtainly far better, in the cases of all but very small 
“ holdings, than those of mere labourers on estates. 
221. Efforts sae be made to keep the land already under 
cacao in a productive state, and to maintain the trees in a 
thoroughly healthy mrnebinieg. Old and decayed trees should be 
oy replaced by young trees. The use of manure is to be 
encouraged on intelligent lines, ail subject to the character and 
Sonena of the soil. On this point the valuable report 
presented by Professor Harrison on the soils of Grenada will 
prove of great service. 
made for saber ing suitable manures of guaranteed quality at the 
lowest possible cost 
223. It is most important that the interest of the small settlers 
in their Bolins should not be allowed to slacken, or that the 
cultivation be neglected owing to the fall in prices. Every acre 
of land now in cacao that is abandoned isa loss to the community 
