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10. Special efforts should be made to maintain demonstration plots, 

 whereon should be shown as continuous object lessons, correct methods of 

 cultivating crops of local importance. 



11. It is desirable that attention should be given to the economic value 

 of the different methods of working, of cultivating, manuring and general 

 handling of crops, as well as the value of new varieties of plants ; and in the 

 publication of the results, as far as possible, reference should always be made 

 to the difference in the monetary value of these methods or varieties, for the 

 information and guidance of practical planters : indeed this should be the key- 

 note of a large proportion of the work of this kind, — the determination 

 whether certain operations, or the introduction of certain varieties of plants 

 will or will not pay. 



12. The station will also afford facilites for the study of the enemies, 

 pests and diseases attacking crops, a subject of growing importance and one 

 for which there is very little provision in the colony to-day. 



13. Such commercial considerations as the methods of preparing and 

 packing products for export also come well within the province of the station 

 work. 



14. The care and management of farm animals and dairying demand 

 attention : provision should be made for carrying on work on these lines in 

 connection with the Station and a distinct and property equipped Veterinary 

 Department should be ultimately formed at the Station. At the outset, how- 

 ever, we are constrained by questions of economy and finance to suggest that 

 this veterinary side shall be started in a small way only, trusting that as soon 

 as the Station is found to be firmly established, veterinary questions will 

 receive the attention they deserve, and that proper provision will be made 

 for this work at an early date. 



15. Publications setting forth the results obtained at the Station should 

 afford useful information to those now employed in dealing with agricultural 

 products. 



16. Instruction in agricultural science and the arts of husbandry should 

 also be afforded to the youths of the colony ; this instruction on the one 

 hand should be framed to meet the requirements of the youths who are 

 about to become planters, while on the other, it should include training for 

 those to be actually engaged in tilling the soil and conducting manual agri- 

 cultural operations. Instruction of a particular kind should be provided for 

 those under training to be teachers in elementary schools, so that by their 

 agency sound ideas on the subject of agriculture may be diffused throughout 

 the country by means of the scholars whom they will have to teach. 



17. This brief outline will serve to indicate in a general way various 

 functions which we believe should be discharged by an Experiment Station 

 in Jamaica. 



18. We have given careful consideration to the many points involved in 

 the questions relating to the best means of establishing such a Station, and 

 we are of opinion that this may be secured in the following manner : — 

 Provided that the necessary assistance is given, it appears to us that most 

 of the work involved in our proposals may be superintended and carried out 

 by means of the Department of Public Gardens and Plantations and the 

 Chemical Department, and this without detriment to the working of these 

 Departments. 



19. In connection with the Hope Gardens and the Hope Industrial 

 School there are upwards of one hundred acres of land available for such a 

 Station as we contemplate. A plot of about 27 acres lying between the lands 

 of the Jamaica High School and the Hope Gardens, and along one side of 

 which runs the high road with the electric car line, appears to be a suitable 

 »ite for occupation at the outset. This land is similar in character to much 

 of that now occupied by the Hope Gardens, and is sufficiently fertile for the 



