850 
may seem best. The small proprietors show some desire to im- 
prove their modes of cultivation, and we shall have some sugges- 
tions to make on this subjec 
117. But whilst we think that the Governments of the different 
ined under natural economic conditions. On the contrary, we 
bes convinced that in many places they afford the best, and, some- 
times, the TI rofitable means of cultivating certain product S, 
and that it is not impossible for the two systems, of large estates 
ánd peasant holdings, to exist side by side with mutual 
advan 
TN d must be recollected that the chief outside influence with 
which the Governments of certain Colonies have ha reckon are 
bos representatives of the sugar estates, that thes decks 
uid that under pres conditions it is the s apila duty of Your 
Majesty’s Government to see that the welfare of the kokoti 
public is not sacrificed to the interests, or supposed interests, of a 
small but influential minority which has vae means of enforc- 
ing its wishes and bringing its claims to notice 
ERE OF A DEPARTMENT As ECONOMIC 
ANY IN THE WEST IND 
118. The a work of cultivating new pele must be 
left in the hands of private persons, whether owners of lar rge 
estates or peasant ail ste but there -— certain directions in 
which assistance can be given by the Sta 
120. Your AC 8 West Indian T REE are, as a rule, not of 
large nitrate and some of them, though possessing separate ad- 
out any information as to what is bate done elsewhere. The 
cultivator of one product is often quite ignorant of the best means 
of cultivating any other, and does not know whether his soil ms 
climate might be better adapted for something else 
remarks have special reference to the small cultivators, but the ej 
are not wholly inapplicable to persons interested in the larger 
estates. 
121. The botanical establishments in the larger es bap such 
as Jamaica, Trinidad, and British Guiana, have already rendered 
considerable assistance in improving agricultural inc asia, and 
ri. are capable of being made increasingly useful in put respect. 
n the Windward and Leeward Islands and Barbados, small estab- 
lishments called botanic stations were established a fw w years ago 
e advice of the Director of Kew Gardens, and the results, 
rk not yet extensive, have been of a distinctly promising 
character. It is evident that to grapple with the present circum- 
gtances, there is god ired for the smaller islands a special public 
