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Don writes regarding its effects on other animals: * Swine fattened 
on this meal lose the use of their limbs, but grow very fat lying on the 
ground. Kine are reported to grow lean on X but sheep not to be 
affected. Pigeons, especially when young, los the power of walking 
by feeding on the seeds. Poultry will not Nadi touch it, but geese 
eat it without any apparent damage. Jn some - im ts of Switzerland 
Special opinions;—'"l have seen many cases of paralysis while a 
Civil Surgeon in the Punjab, vitio the patients themselves and their 
family all believed to be due to the use of khesari dál, and I have 
seen the specimens of the seeds and of the bread made "from them.” 
( reg eer: dé r C. W. Calthrop, M.D., Morar.) “The occasional 
e of the dal does not bring on paraplegia, but many poor people are 
obliged to live almost entirely on it. They eat the green undressed 
plant, cook it, make dál of = — and chapáti of the flour. It is 
people of this description t suffer from sete es of the lower 
extremities.” (Bolly Chund cas Teicher of Medicine). 
CCCCXI.—MINOR INDUSTRIES IN JAMAICA AND 
BERMUD 
At one time it was somewhat the — io deery the small or minor 
industries in our Colonies. "They were, in fact, regarded as likely to be 
of little permanent benefit to thes community. Darig the last few 
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ditions of many of our tropical possessions, and small industries have 
been more fully appreciated. 
Jamaica,—The banana cultivation in Jamaica, a case in point, may 
be cited as a most striking and remarkable instance of how a compara- 
tively ** minor industry " may, under suitable encouragement, attain to 
the rank of a staple product. Twenty-five years sitio the value of the 
bananas exported deem Jamaica was practically nothing. People d 
them for their own use but never thought of shipping them. In the 
year 1892-93 the vidue of the bananas exported from Jamaica reache 
over „0007. It eeded that of var sugar, rum, coffee, or dye- 
woods. In this case a minor indust a comparatively unpromising 
character has been called into existence, aed so advanced in value as to 
rtop old industries vri on for more than a hundred years. 
Banana cultivation in Jamaica has been of err also to other in- 
cocoa, oranges, and spices. Not only so, but “ready money” to the 
extent of nearly 200,000/. annually has been circulated amongst small 
cultivators, who are the chief banana-growers, and their material 
prosperity and consequently their purchasing power have been increased. 
Further, land everywhere has enhanced in value, and a larger demand 
has taken place for cattle, mules, and horses, which a are raised on 
“ pens” in go interior. Practically, therefore, all classes of the 
communit e been benefited and the general resources of the 
enlightened efforts of two able 
Anthony a both of whom laboured most consistently for this 
