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regard to the Bill dealing with the sugar-cane diseases, T have the 
honour to state that having brought to its notice your a 
cor ndence with the Governor of rmm it was resolved : 
proceed further with the proposal to obta the services of an mete 
and the joint committee of both branches. E the Legislature to which 
my- draft Bil had been referred, after due deliberation, with slight 
modifications adopted it. I anticipate ru i will be considered by the 
House of Assembly at its next meeting, and enclose a copy for peni 
Lordship's information. 
2. I also transmit a copy of S M rendered by Mr. Bovell at my 
request, on the fungus disease amongst ng canes, which I regret to say 
Par rs to be still E d dide in forwarding ES to the iced 
I ave once again invited serious attention ther 
-3.- As bein ng germane tothe subject, I Bowie pum: & copy of the 
report of a commission nominated by me in January 1893 ‘to inquire 
into and report on the best means for =F ee the Borer and other 
which are-in the main embodied in the draft Bill dealing with the 
question. 
The Most Hon. (Signed) y J. Js Hay. 
The Marquess of Ripon, K.G., 
&e. &e. &c. 
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Report on the SucARn-CANE Founeus (Trichospheria Sacchari, 
-U = Mass.) at present existing in the IsLAND. 
Although I knew of the existence of what is known as the root 
TEES one of the forms of the poles nee erie Sacchart, 
had obtained permission to plant a' hardy oa of the 
sugar- FEA in a badly affected field on Henley estate, in the parish of 
ohn, so as to ascertain whether the hardier varieties would he 
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matter with certain holes of canes in a field, some of which were dying. 
and from. that time onwards the two forms of the fi angus have spread 
rapidly until now, ert 1895, there is hardly an estate Bch is 
more or less a 
2, Jn many instances so badly has the disease attacked the canes that 
instead of an. aere giving from two to nogahiedti of sugar it will 
require many acres, to give one hogshead 
3. Since my return to the colony I ia not as yet, owing to press 
I work, been able to visit the whole island, = in the parishes that 
1 have been, viz, St. Philip, prd ore St. eorge, and portions of 
disease than there was at this time last year. Owin ng to the dry 
weather experienced during the earlier part of last year the stems of the 
