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GOVERNOR ОЕ GOLD Coast to COLONIAL OFFICE. 
My Lorp, Accra, 28th August 1888. 
In my Sox pars No. 53, of the 2nd of March last, in section 11, 
it was stated: t- Aburi, -which- has, mountain slopes of southern 
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* aspect and ‘a fertile soil Parin suited for coffee and cocoa, the 
© former of which is alread У cultivated to some extent, owing to the 
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hasised the advantages of agriculture to the Africans of the place, 
“ and endeavoured specially to stimulate the local native sluggishness 
< in which some leaven of industry has begun to show itself. I had 
* already ordered a space of about three acres to be cleared of bush, 
* with a view to the commencement of and concentration of the expen- 
xs diture upon gardens at out-stations on the аа of a model 
ке з well as with a view of improving the sanitary surroundings 
= pf this house ; pe I am hopeful that I may see my way at no distant 
« date’ to place before you a definite scheme on the subject." In my 
Despatch No. 232, of the 30th of June, I referred to the subject in 
paragraph 19, and stated that I should presently do myself the honour 
of submitting to your Lordship a scheme for the formation of an agri- 
я farm at Aburi under the charge of a fit and competent man 
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have now the honour of bringing the proposed scheme more par- 
ticularly under your Lordship’s notice. The “ Bulletin of Miscellaneous 
Information ” for June, issued by the Director of the Royal Gardens at 
Kew, refers to this Colony i in the following extract from page 150 :— 
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“ from the fact that the coast line of the Gold Coast Colony alone is 
* 350 miles, and that the total area of the British Protectorate is from 
“€ 24,000 to 30,000 square miles. The staple products of this Colony 
“ are sive oil and en лине bst among other «ср a аге сорга 
“ (from the foot But Im), guinea grains, gum copal, c ood, and 
“ beniseed, If. о gs N eed ресе magnificent TE in this 
* Colony were ae S to cultivate economic. plants in a systematic 
* manner for purposes of export, the material wealth of the Gold Coast 
“ might be enormously inc 
It was mainly with the view of teaching the Natives to cultivate 
economie plants in a systematie manner for purposes of export that I 
and distributed in large numbers to the people in the neighbourhood in 
the first instance, and afterwards sent further into the country by pupils 
whom I contemplate taking from the schools when willing to give their 
attention to industrial jii By their labour and agency, when 
sufficiently educated for the purpose, additional farms or gardens could 
be started, and by these means the people generally would become 
acquainted with the fact that other products than those indigenous to 
the country had been ert into it, were thriving and would be 
remunerative, and thus observing the advantage to be gained by their 
propagation, would be disposed ‘to cultivate them. By this mode of 
procedure I trust that in time it will be possible to raise sufficient 
quantities of new productions which may, in the not too distant future, 
add E to the value of the exports from the Colon 
h these objects in view, when passing through ye in March 
last, 1 instructed the Surveyor-General that he was to have "e 
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