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other places the attendance, though not as large as the districts would 

 warrant, was satisfactory, the right sort of people turned out, that is, 

 the small freeholders. One man who was at the Quebec demonstration 

 last year, again walked six miles to Quebec to get further information 

 as he said that his cocoa had improved immensely from the treatment 

 he gave it last year on my advice. 



Mr. Edwards of Mason Hall, Port Maria, also attended the Quebec 

 demonstration, he being anxious to see the demonstration on pruning. 

 He had come all the way to the Hope Gardens and received instruction 

 on budding, by means of which he is now quite expert, having 

 succesfully budded a lot of sour orange trees on his own property. 



At Retreat the people who attended seemed to be keenly alive to the 

 importance of the demonstrations, and were particularly interested 

 with the buding operations. 



At Jacks River a very nice field of young cocoa and coffee was 

 demonstrated on. 



At Hampstead a fine field of young cocoa, the property of Mr. H. J. 

 Rudolph, was also demonstrated on, both young and old coffee plaats 

 also being obtainable. 



At Highgate I lectured in a very fine field of young cocoa about six 

 acres in extent. The cocoa trees were of all ages up to two years, 

 planted by sowing two and three seeds in one spot, in order that 

 one tree might be secured in each place. Then in the usual fashion the 

 whole were left to grow. Most of the trees required to be pruned also 

 to prevent them from becoming six acres of gormandiser-growing, 

 non-bearing cocoa trees. I explained the reason for pruning, and 

 showed how to prune. 



At Belfield a fine young field of cocoa was shown, which was simply 

 going to bush for want of pruning. It was growing on good land, was 

 kept clean and was old enough to bear ; and yet it was not bearing, 

 simply from the want of a knowledge of the proper treatment of the 

 tree on the part of the owner. 



With regard to the soil in the districts visited, my second visit has 

 still further impresssed on my mind the importance of the opinions I 

 expressed after my first visit. The soil of the part of St. Mary visited 

 by me is beyond doubt very fertile, and yet requires scientific cultiva- 

 tion. The soils around Hampstead particularly require the utmost 

 forethought with regard to drainage, by means of the cutting of 

 trenches, the addition of lime, and of vegetable matter, and aeration 

 by constantly digging up the soil. The carryiug off the water on the 

 very heavy soils by means of trenches is a matter of the greatest im- 

 portance, so as to prevent the soil getting sadden, and to prevent the 

 loss of heat by the evaporation of large quantities of water from the 

 soil. 



The district traversed as may be gathered from the first part of this 

 report is full of young cocoa fields of all ages and sizes ; but many of 

 the people are becoming tired of the cultivation, as they say that the 

 trees grow up all right, but bear little or nothing. I think that it is of 

 the greatest importance that the people should have it drummed into 

 them that it is not the fault of the trees, locality, or soil, but simply 

 that they allow the trees to grow gormandisers until they become 

 orest trees with scarcely a pod on them. 



