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would be derived by the encouragement of such an industry, from 
the various blocks of land that he saw, of land leased 0 
some Barbadian immigrants, and it was at Mr. Lubbock s re- 
quest that he gave every possible encouragement to a number o 
settlers about the district of Guaracara. Very many people 
were under the impression that cane farming was really to be 
the saving of the sugar industry, if anything at all would save it, 
and many theories had been “built upon the subject, but he 
thought that if the question was looked into closely from a prac 
heal point of view it would bo seen that it was utterly a isur o 
suppose that cane farming alone could ever save the sugar in 
dustry. It would be a valuable auxiliary at all times and was 
ali’eady a most valuable aid, but, to begin with, no sugar estate 
<* any size, which had been established perhaps at great cost, 
w hich ^d on it machinery to the value of many thousanc s 
pounds, could ever dream of depending entirely on a s *tpP y . 
uanes from small and independent growers. It would be 
he 'R ht of madness to do so, nor could they ever depend upon a 
re " l ’ ar supply to keep that machinery steadily at work and th J 
would all easily understand that, with machinery such as was 
quired on large sugar estates, the only possible means of wor g 
with economy was to keep it in constant and regular work, i 
also contended that the supply of canes from farmers 
C ieve the planter of the greater part of his work o cu j 
n therefore enormously reduce his demand f° r a , ‘ se 
? 0re w ? s ma de of that point than of almost any other, b 
e y said, instead of introducing a number of ltnniigi' 
od, a every year, all you want to do is to give out your fields^ to 
'e-farmers ; but to give out your fields to cane . , was to 
‘ _ ’ can ®-farmers to grow the canes on your own a - t jj’ ose 
a legal term, changing the venue for the gio » colony, 
es and changing the employment of labour 1 quan- 
e mere fact of their growing canes did no ie ' ^erefore 
y of labour required to produce those ca “e ; ne( j at its 
°ng as the whole cane cultivation was nr .j was 
P r «ent rate, so long would there be the demand that the ^ 
nlfay for labour. That demand has been cons a ^ to sa y 
er yet been sufficiently supplied, and ie . ^ f or some 
J‘ 6re se <^d to be little hope of its being J u P£ iMio f,ers to 
years to come. They had been urged by th ropr ietors as 
^hout establishing the labourers as •T^‘ ruiu which they 
fiuicldy as they possibly could, in view of th ° sofar as sugar 
* ( ; m to have come to the conclusion was in. , een ’ reproached for 
u Ration was concerned, and they ‘ a 3 establishment of 
' a .' mg done nothing towards encouiagui„ ^ fully and 
lr >or industries. It would take a Ijiig Fenwick) wished 
Properly int0 8Uch a sub ject, but he (Mr- * 
