we believe this will meet with the hearty approval of the Board of Manage- 

 ment of the Society. 



61 . The results of the investigations conducted at the Station would be 

 published in the Bulletin of the Botanical Department and the Journal of 

 the Jamaica Agricultural Society, in this way there would be no need for the 

 issue of a new Journal. 



62. The management of the affairs of the Station should be entrusted 

 to a board which should be charged with the administration of the funds 

 provided for the Station work. The Board should also direct the nature of 

 the work to be undertaken at the Station, the courses of instruction to be 

 given, and should generally control the agricultural instruction provided for 

 the various classes and grades of pupils and students to whom we have 

 referred. 



63. It appears to us that the Board might well be constituted as 

 follows : — 



Ex Officio Members — 



(1) The Director of Public Gardens and Plantations. 



(2) The Government Analytical and Agricultural Chemist. 



(3) The Head Master of the Jamaica High School. 



(4) The Secretary of the Agricultural Society. 



(5) The Commissioner of Agriculture of the Imperial Department 



of Agriculture for the West Indies. 

 Members nominated by the Governor. — 



(6) An Elected Member of the Legislative Council. 



(7) A person who is not an Elected Member of the Legislative 



Council 



64. Water supply. This question is of fundamental importance and an 

 adequate supply of water must be assured before other operations are under- 

 taken on the Hope site. The rainfall at the Hope Gardens averages 52 

 inches a year, during the dry season of 1896-97 the rainfall was only 31 

 inches. It will not be necessary to obtain a water supply capable of con- 

 tinuously irrigating the whole of the Station land, but a sufficient supply 

 should be secured to enable growing crops to be kept in a healthy condition 

 during dry seasons. Some cultivation is still maintained in the district with- 

 out the aid of irrigation. But it would be unsatisfactory if Experiment 

 Station work were undertaken without some water supply to supplement 

 rainfall. 



65. The Hope Gardens derive their supply from the Hope Water Works, 

 for this a sum of £131 lis. a year is paid. A further sum of £54 is paid 

 for the water supplied to the Hope Industrial School. 



66. It is not dersirable that the Experiment Station should seek to ob" 

 tain its water supply from the same source, and several other methods of se- 

 curing a supply have suggested themselves : — 



(1) The construction of ponds or reservoirs within the Hope Gardens 

 for the conservation of the waste water now running at intervals 

 from Hope Water Works and for collecting and storing storm 

 water. 



(2) A supply of water may possibly be obtained by means of wells 

 sunk into the alluvial strata underlying the proposed station. 



(3) A small and fairly constant stream of water exists on the hillside 

 above Hope Gardens on land belonging to the heirs of the 

 Duke of Buckingham and Chandos: we believe that the use of 

 this water might be secured for the Station at a reasonable price. 

 In order to utilise this supply means must be taken to convey the 

 water from the hillside to the Station by appropriate channels, 

 we have had an inspection of the ground made from which we 



