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pries aak for training boys in agricultural pursuits ; (3) 
theo retical (and to some slight ribo nt the 
Fricke) ate of agriculture in elementary achivels (4) to 
promote the teaching of scientific agricuiture in saute and 
schools; (5) to organise horttenTraral “shows and exhibitions of 
implements and machinery suitable for is cca and curing 
tropical products; and (6) to prepare bulletins, leaflets, and 
other literature on subjects suitable for euina in the West 
Indies 
The duties devolving on the Botanic peer may be more fully 
described. ey are to devote themselves in a systematic manner 
to the work of introducing, kasseret oa distributing all the 
promising economic plants of the tropics ; they are to initiate the 
itt ts, 
in the efforts made in the larger colonies to secure improved 
varieties of the sugar cane. They are to actas centres for diffusing 
accurate information, and as training institutions for the practical 
teaching of tropical agriculture ; also as the headquarters from 
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economic plants, their suitable iraina and the best methods 
for a and peg the prire 
or for AES eat wre might be provided ie the local 
governments in lieu of continuing ihe present payments to the 
botanic stations. It is de inable that the funds contributed by the 
Imperial Government should be wholly devoted to the efficient 
working of the department, and not to establishing gardens or 
erecting permanent structures. 
ADMINISTRATION, 
It is recommended by the Commission that “a competent 
Imperial officer ” be appointed to take charge of the Department, 
whose duty, briefly stated, would be to develope the agricultural 
resources of the Wind ward and Leeward Islands and Barbados. 
s been suggested that this officer should act under the 
ath ‘quihority of the Secretary of ate and should locally 
the Imperial Government. The most PARAT paR he AA in 
view of the present Mail p akaiona d would be Barbados 
is scheme might be submitted beforehand, and receive the 
careful consideration of the several governments concerned, but 
when the general policy has been settled it sN be understood 
that all administrative See pe nd the charge of all the existing 
and any further Botanic Stations established in the Windward 
and Leeward — are left entirely in the hands of the 
Imperial office ht also act, as ps required, as 
oe antuoaley k the other Colonies. 
It is an essential part of the scheme now set forth that it should 
be consistently carried out for a period of 10 years at least. 
