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St. Thomas. 



Tuesday, March 8tli. — Lectured in the Court House at Morant Bay- 

 to about 50 people on the management of soils, manuring, &c., also 

 on cocoa, tobacco, coffee, oranges and grapes. 



Afterwards demonstrated on the budding of oranges and pruning of 

 coffee and cocoa. 



Thursday, March 10th. — Whitehall. Lectured in the School-room 

 to a room full, on coffee, oranges, tobacco and cocoa, and afterwards 

 demonstrated on budding of oranges and pruning coffee and cocoa. 



Friday, March 11th. — Johnstown. Lectured in the School-room to 

 an audience of about 25 men and a number of women and the bigger 

 School children, the subject being the same as the day before. 



Saturday, March 12th. — Visited Dr. Neyland's cocoa cultivation at 

 Bachelor's Hall, and visited numerous people's cultivations on the road, 

 gave advice to Mr. Stewart in particular regarding his grapes, peaches, 

 coffee and oranges. 



Monday, March 14th. — Lectured in the School-room at Thornton. 

 While dealing with the crops fit for the locality, particular stress was 

 laid on the way in which the people waste the land, and yet are dis- 

 satisfied that they cannot get more. 



Tuesday, March 15th. — Lectured at Chigoe-foot Market to a good 

 audience of 50 or 60 adults and about a dozen of the biggest boys from 

 the Seaforth School, dealing with tobacco, oranges, coffee and grapes ; 

 ihe soil here is light and sandy and should grow, I think, grapes of a 

 good quality. 



Wednesday, March 16th. — Lectured at the Wilmington Sohool-room 

 to a house full of people. 



The large attendance was doubtless due to energy, and the interest 

 taken in the people by the Rector of Morant Bay. 



The people hereabouts are very land-greedy ; many think an acre of 

 land not worth bothering with and because they cannot become the 

 possessors of a large tract they simply sit and grumble. I therefore 

 devoted a good deal of time after lecturing on tobacco, oranges, treat- 

 ment of ground provisioijs, and cocoa, to show what might be done 

 with an acre of land and I think I succeeded in impressing a few of 

 them with the idea that an acre of land would really produce some- 

 thing if properly cultivated. 



St. James and Hanover. 



Wednesday, March 30th. — Lectured and demonstrated at Retrieve 

 School on cultivation of coffee, oranges, ginger, and tobacco to about 

 30 men besides women and the biggest School-children. Also demon- 

 strated with the aid of a skilled labourer from the gardens the use of 

 the ordinary digging and Assam forks, and on draining the land. 

 This is a most favourable locality for such a demonstration, the land 

 being rich but heavy and in some instances badly drained. 



Thursday, March 31st. — Lectured at the Mt. Hermon School-room 

 to about 30 men, chiefly members of the Lamb's River branch of the 

 Agricultural Society, the subjects dealt with^being the same as at 

 Retrieve. The land in the immediate vicinity of Mt. Hermon was not 

 favourable to a demonstration of implements, but many of the audience 

 were from surrounding districts where such implements would be ex- 



