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The moment has also come when special scholarships ait 
required to be granted to students of agriculture, open not onlj 
to the pupils of the two colleges, but to all natives of the island, 
o ena ie them to pursue a technical course of studies in Europt 
an . menca, for it is only with the aid of young men with sound 
eoietica training, that we can expect to progress scientifically 
wmi existing industries, and to hope to establish new ones with 
reasonable chances of success. 
The Chairman said they had all listened to a most admirabif 
an a e paper upon the agricultural capabilities of this colony 
nr ie rusted that it would be followed by an in terestim; dis- 
cussion. e called upon several gentlemen to come forward. 
^ J ' H- Hart . sa id that to tell them all in which he agre 
all in wM G J r . tRuil W0U ^ ta ^e ten minutes, but to tell the 
a timp Th 6 lsa S ree ^ with him could not be done in so sho 
which fiins 6 ° ne which he agreed was on the benefi 
before the m ^' ef f I 1 n o s . lla d in ventilating questions and placir 
Aereement^ 1 ?' Vlews different sections of the com mu nit 
personal ^agreement was sometimes a matter of mei 
because he P haH° n ; did not wish to enter into a discussic 
be trench in cr n ° lea, d a paper on the same subject and woul 
speakers andTh h * s ° Wn gTOUnd - He therefore left it tooth 
agriculture at a future® mee^ng. t0 Say °“ ^ 
what har)^'i? SeP r^ Urra, y sa ‘ d a g re ed with a great deal o 
ditltd w ,th n Mr d e Verte but atthe g sametim eh 
on the C ocoa h industry dea He h feil^ ^ “ P ast discUSSI °' 1 
had deterim -. \/ , failed to see in what way coco 
tree was the' small 1 ? st P laQters knew that the younger tb 
the colony there had h 6 D ? ring M r - Hart's residence ii 
tion of cocoa and tl, 6611 t VS P' ar g° increase in the cultiva 
proportion of sm aller 1 r6SU k , of . t !le increase had been a largei 
of bean would hail ‘ ^ in the next <5™ years the si* 
bean was made tn immensely. Whether the sail* 
might be demanded grades or Jower S rades ’ * 
paration, not so much . rk:et ’ Was only a question of pro 
°f the bean. He thouo-h^ i '* 10n ,° deterioration of the quality 
the fruit trade. If they read the^ t0 b , nng "P the <l uestion oi 
they would find it stated P ° n ° f the R °J' al Commission 
corae forward. That was to Pe ° ple of this ' islan <i did not 
of failure stated by the Comnl^ exte nt true. Another reason 
Were n°t what they shou^l^'T 6 '’ 8 Was that ‘he steamers 
ceased, 1893, he WouH refers L ° av '»g the period when it 
to the time when it was begun 
