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ever, will be more clearly stated and at greater length 
in the detailed report to be presented later. 
Mr. Hargreaves suggested that it might be better to 
hold the Show earlier in the year ; the matter no doubt 
should be more properly brought before the Committee 
of Correspondence. Mr. Daly said that that Committee 
lookt^d after all matters in connection with the Show. 
The President said the following long letter had 
lui n received from the Government with reference to 
the experiments in cane cultivation, the grant from the 
Imperial Government, and suggestions as to the expen- 
diture of the money. The suggestions of Messrs, Harri- 
son and Jenman had been entirely adopted, and he 
thought the scheme suggested would meet all wants. 
The communication would be handed to the Press for 
publication, and would be put on the agenda for the 
next meeting for discussion. 
Sir, — I have the honour by direftion of the Governor 
to forward for the information of the Royal Agricultural 
and Commercial Society the following scheme for the 
extension of experimental cane cultivation in the colony 
which has been framed by the Government after consul- 
tation with the Government Analyst and Government 
Botanist, approved of by the Imperial Commissioner of 
Agriculture, and submitted to the Secretary of State, who 
has san6lioned the employment of part of the Imperial 
Grant-in-aid in giving effe6l to it. 
2. The scope of the present experiments will be en- 
larged by the following extension : 
(aj The duplication of the present series of manurial 
experiments. This will require an area of about 4 acres 
of securely well fenced, well drained land. The objeft 
gained will be that the land devoted to the experiments 
may be allowed from two to three years rest between 
each cycle of cane crops, without, as at present, causing 
a breach in the continuity of the experiments. 
