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. That wherever deemed possible by the sub-committee the practice 
of spreading ag around young canes be given up; and that wherever 
it be resorted to only trash from a field which has been inspected by the 
sub-committee =a declared healthy, or as healthy as possible, be 
employed. 
5. The rotten canes on all fields diseased with rind fungus — 
* root Kors should be burnt on the field, or crushed and burned a 
herein-before mentioned. In fields diseased «m. root fungus the 
stumps should be dug. nps the mould shaken off, and be allowed to dry 
and be burned or burie 
6. That rotten canes on all fields be Fg ael burned during the 
Juicy ones could be first crushed and the megass burned, the 
Aii being bo 
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8. That sale estate put such an area under the so-called hardy 
varieties of cane plants as St ¥ suffice to re-plant the whole of the estate 
in eid varieties if necessary. 
9. That when root fungus has Nen its appearance, rattooning for 
the present should be g dually given 
10. That the be riolica V with a view to 
cutting out canes. pos orer or fungus, which canes should be 
bagged upon t e spot and taken away, iia and burned. 
meer WEL of crops should be especially 1 Midi to in the case agf 
Todt 
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The following documents carry on the history of the subject :— 
Nore by Mr. Masskkz on the meteo Mags gt Trichospheria 
a "e Sacchari, — 
Specimens of diseased sugar-cane were sent to Kew i in 1878 from 
Porto Rico for investigation. These were submitted to the Rev. M. J. 
Berkeley, who gave the MS. name of Darluca melaspora to the fungus 
present on the canes. The fungus was afterwards very briefly described 
under Berkeley's name by Cooke in Nuovo Giornale Bot., vol. x., p.26 
(187 8), who incorrectly gave the locality as Australia instead of Porto 
ico. ceardo has added to the confusion by changing the name to 
scour iie melas. RAA bu In Keine Cooke's diagnosis — 
disher (Bul de France, f XL, D 4/9, 1895), Toro 
fallen into the adi of “considering the Melanconium | stage 
A igi d pr Mas , to onymous with Co Àyrium 
: be 
m (Berk.) Sac Bramination of Berkeley’s type specimen 
GOVERNOR OF BARBADOS to Dodduaan OFFICE. 
Government koa Barbados, 
My Loss Manqugss 9th February 1895. 
x irm reference to your ea s ys Death 3 No. 131, of the 
Decem ue Të ‘last, respect ng the acti £ Assembly wi with 
