4^ ' TiMEHRI. 
for agricultural purposes. The rising generation of our 
Creole labourers do not take kindly to agriculture, and 
many of them rather than till the soil, prefer to lead 
a haphazard, improvident existence. It is certain the 
future of this Colony and the happiness and prosperity of 
its people depend on agriculture. Our expensive system 
of education appears to be faulty, judged by results, and 
it will take a long time, much effort, example and patience, 
to make our people a thrifty, self-reliant and industrious 
peasantry. They are not well qualified to establish new 
industries and produce satisfa6lory results, and something 
ought to be done by way of training, either in existing 
schools or special institutions, to prepare them for the 
successful cultivation of minor agricultural industries. 
The new Crown Lands Ordinance will render it easy for 
the industrious and ambitious labourer to acquire a home- 
stead of his own, and if he could only be made to realise 
that he must work out his own salvation by his own 
energy and industry, without relying on Government 
assistance, or believing, as misguided efforts are made to 
induce him to do, that the sugar planter stands between 
him and prosperity, then we might expe6l to see a sure 
development of the minor industries. In time the present 
neglected, dilapidated and desolate appearance of the 
cottage homes of our people may give place to neat 
dwellings, trim and well-kept gardens and fences, and 
sanitary surroundings. It should be the business of 
those who come in conta6l with our labourers, or who 
can exert any beneficial influence over their a6lions, to 
encourage them in steady industrious habits, the tillage 
of the soil, the growth of economic produ6ls, and the 
much needed improvement of their dwellings and sur- 
