no TlMEHRI. 
It occurs to me that my letter has been misunder- 
stood. 
I wrote to ask whether the Society would accept from 
farmers here, say lo quakes of yams and as many quakes 
of tannias a sa trial shipment to England, and in the 
event of these finding a ready sale in the English mar- 
kets, to advise us as to the best mode of shipment and 
recommend an Agent in England who could undertake 
to dispose of any shipment the farmers here may send. 
If the Society will accept my offer, I shall endeavour 
to place the yams and tannias with them for shipment 
towards the end of next month. 
With kindest regards. 
NED PIERRE. 
The Dire6lors had agreed to accept the vegetables and 
ship them at the expense of the Society. 
The Hon. B. Howell Jones read the following extra6t 
from a letter from Mr. Cameron, Barbados. 
ist 06lober, 1898. 
" Regarding your enquiries as to Fruit Trade between 
Barbados and U. K. and U. S., I would say at once - 
that there is none. As far as I can gather one gentleman 
here shipped very moderately to N. Y. from his own 
estate, without any great profit, before the change in 
Tariff, but since a duty has been imposed in U. S., he 
shipped only at a heavy loss." 
Mr. Jones said that the difficulties in shipping to foreign 
countries were well exemplified by a case that came 
within his knowledge. An industrious man in the colony 
put up a small fa6lory and made a good cassava farine 
of which he shipped a lot to Cayenne, where it was the 
common foodstuff of the gold-diggers. The duty, how- 
ever, was so high that, having to compete with the free 
produ6l from the disputed territory and Brazil, it did not 
pay. He thought that something should be done by the 
Imperial Government to arrange treaties so that Markets 
could be found for colonial produ6ls. 
