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(3.) That in the case of plant canes, 
(a.) That the plants be taken from fields unaffected by any disease, 
and the greatest care be observed to most scrupulously examine 
healthiest looking; (5.) The plants selected for planting be 
stripped ¡and soaked in a strong pape of temper lime and 
water or other mixture known to be fatal to the fungus or 
borer ; and (e) After the plants bes sprouted every sprout or 
young canes showing the sliehtest it no or indieation of 
disease be Vitbónt fail pulled up and bur 
(4.) "That in the case of all supplies, whether for plants or ratoons, the 
same course be pursued as recommended in resolution (3). All 
dead plants taken out when supplying, be burnt ontside the piece. 
(5.) That immediately after burning the banks should be broken and 
manure or green dressing be put on them. 
As regards resolution (2) (a) the maximum limit of 14 days has 
been recommended in order to leave it to the diseretion of planters to 
burn within à day or two after the cutting of the piece or to delay the 
operation until after the stools have sprouted, not later than 14 days 
after cutting to suit the nature of the soil and the opinion of the 
individual planter. 
. The members of the committee, whilst hitherto more or less fully 
convinced of the absolute necessity of some such course, have now 
above all unity of purpose, as they find that precisely the same measure 
were enforced by legislative enaetment by the AI e cf Mauritius 
some rs ago, as the onl sible means of fre 
culture, within a few years, of an insect (the borer) which threatened 
it with certain ruin, and al m the terms of th from Mr. 
W. Thiselton Dyer so recently as March this year, forwarded to the 
Governor of the Windward Islands by the Secretary of State in a 
stem dated 24th ultimo, on the subject of the fungus in Barbados. 
4. The Committee therefore, as the only means of securing universal 
and Ede action throughout the Colony, urge in the most pressing 
manner on all proprietors of estates and on all and any persons having 
or growing canes the necessity for carrying out the measures above 
referred to and, in the event of their not being carried out, suggest 
that the Government be asked to legislate soas to render these measures 
ers e later o 
ved by Mr. Campbell and seconded by Mr. H. A. Hazell that the 
eiii resolutions be adopted and submitted to the Feee of the 
Planters’ Club and the Chairman of the meeting, the Honourable C. J 
immons, with a request that they be printed and citcùúlatöð without 
delay to all proprietors and cane-growers, urging on them esira- 
the same to be published in the next issue of the “ Government 
Gazette 
(Signed) J. G. Court, 
28th April 1894. Chairman, 
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