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300. In Dominica, as elsewhere, the burden of all suggestions 
to i o minor industries is to instruct and encourage the 
small cultivators to make the best use of the land, and grow 
successfully such plants as will enable them to produce articles 
for export—in fact, to do something more than grow ground pro- 
visions, which it is admitted at present only supply themselves 
and their families with the bare means of existence. In the 
late Sir Robert Hamilton’s report on Dominica, he dwelt very 
strongly on the need of teaching the small settlers on these lines. 
e recommended: “ They should be instructed as to the soil, 
n situation, and exposure rira paies for the cultiv premi oa Ee 
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“ suitable ; with the distances that trees of each sort should be 
“ planted apart, which differs even with the same description of 
“ cultivation on steep and on flat s pa eoi ; with the best mr 
“of sheltering such of them as require shelter ; with the b 
“ways of pruning the tre rees ; and vi piren and laasaga 
“ the produce for market 
301. Dr. Nicholls suggests that agricultural instructors and 
gardeners should be trained at the Botanic Station. “ It would,” 
he says, “ be to the manifest advantage of the agricultural interest 
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