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manufacturers. He admitted that the article was made very 
near the limit of the standard, which, however, he considered 
rather high, but contended that the addition of salt was aa 
advantage, as it saved the cooks from adding so much to the 
food. ( Laughter .) 
Mr. J . H. Hart considered the lecture to have been in the 
nature of a piece of education, and was very much pleased with 
it. As to cocoa, he had been able to invent a means of extract 
ing the fat of cocoa to a more complete extent than even Messrs. 
Cadbury of London, who had, now, adopted a modification of 
his plan, which was a great success. But he did not think it 
was beneficial to extract the fat, in which point he quite agreed 
with the lecturer. 
Read November, 1897. 
TRINIDAD AS AN AGRICULTURAL COLONY. 
By Rene de Verteuil. 
fTlRINIDAD has been up to now eminently an agricultura. 
co ony, and were its great value as the emnorinm of thf 
. C ? an !£ were great value as the emporium of tl 
trade between Europe and Western and Southern Venezue. 
to enr ’ commercial progress would contribute incontestab. 
to our agricultural advancement. 
is noSw the maj °, rity of the other We st Indies, this islar 
tion nm “ • a SU ®. a r . 0o on Y> f° r the importance of its cacao produ 
stZ'TT™ Wlthm a very shorfc time to be its support in tl 
are now undet^ 6 ™ 3 ® 1Ch , uu P rote cted cane sugar producei 
produce the , ,^°‘ n S' ^ adaptability of its soil and climate t 
Suitural t^pmal staples will cause it to be always a 
its commercial 1 10 e ® Jrts those who desire to rais 
be labouring likewise 8 W* T v U enc . our agement, for that woul 
° kewise towards its agricultural development. 
ment/ bt 1 S s iQ a d !!i in J he r feW W °f ds “agricultural develoj 
without the union of all successfully undertake: 
especially between those mitt T, lere f^ould be no conflicl 
for that just interference and the Soil of the same country 
new country like thfsT eal ]li n “ which government in 
private initiative can be more profitabl^ 10 ® to , the support o 
perseverance and determination ^ a Y secured by combine< 
