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instructive discussions such as we used to have. I 
think the Society will have viewed with much pleasure 
the formation in some of the villages of Agricultural 
Societies. I refer more especially to Victoria-Belfield 
and Bagotville. Agriculture must always be the 
mainstay of this colony whether it be sugar cane or 
minor industries. In connection with these Societies 
I would strongly urge upon them to impress upon their 
members the desirability of putting in permanent 
cultivation. Say a man owns a couple of acres or 
more, it would cost little for him to get say a few 
pods of cocoa, plant the seeds, and keep the plants 
weeded, whilst the necessary shade trees would cost 
even less, and at the end of five years he would be 
deriving a steady revenue. Another class of cultivation 
which has been most unaccountably neglected is the 
growing of canes for the factory. Sir Nevile 
Lubbock, in a very interesting address which he 
gave to the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce on 
10th December last, mentioned that he started this in 
Trinidad in 1882, and with some "difficulty persuaded 
'* eight small farmers to start growing canes with a 
" view to their sale at factories." Last year there were 
6,696 of these farmers and they grew 106,741 tons of 
cane, nearly one-fifth of the whole cane production of 
the island. In this direction there are large possibilities 
and good profits to the farmer. As you are aware a 
trial shipment of fruit is to be made by the Society to 
Canada and this I hope may be successful and bring 
about more trade relations witli our big sister in the 
nortli. Ferliaps on a large scale the most interesting 
agricultural problem in these latitudes at present is 
the production of a seedling cane having all the 
