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ae the colony. I would, therefore, recommend that i govern- 
nt have in connection with the botanical station a few acres 
indar coffee cultivation. If it should be decided to Dakia the 
h Company’s 
should be given to farmers and others who are desirous of availing 
themselves of it, to inspect the machinery and see how it works. 
Some p toma -e should be used even if it were decided 
to work some at 
5. There is no paar now imported into the colony ; and 
though so some growers may be able and willing to procure it after 
seeing and understanding its use, they will act unwisely to get 
now what may prove to be mere white elephants in their hands, 
and sizer. Their prices vary. D have an os recently 
(Messrs. Walker, Sons. & Co., Limited), who profess to have 
invented the best pulper for Liberian coffee. A London fi o 
John Gordon supplies machinery, but I do not know if their 
pulper is specially adapted to the aap coffee. American 
machines appear to be cheaper. 
` 17. As some or all of the machinery above-mentioned may n 
be within the means of small growers, it will be an advantage à 
A curing establishment is all that is necessary. Mr. Crowther, in 
his report on his recent visit to the West Indies, says (in page 19) 
that the cost of the buildings needed for this purpose for a farm 
of 300 acres need not exceed £160. If eventually the Naggeniion 
with respect to providing the means for — a the pu 8 
to the best mode of preparing coffee be ended to d" the 
additional cost will be comparatively sma 
19. A third plan that I would suggest for encouraging; agriculture 
a the eonim aeaa of annual shows, in which prizes are to be 
or competition in different i TA eE of agricultural 
labed, for articles and objects produced or maintained in 
colon 
0. Before stating the plan in detail, I may mention that one of 
its objects i is to aen enterprise to other channels than coffee and 
cacao, in order to avoid the dan anger of throwing all the economic 
egg of the reita in one basket 
; 21. My proposal is that the shows shall be under the patronage 
of the government, but directed by a committee of which the 
