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very glad to see that the prejudice on their part was 
being gradually broken down, and he looked forward 
with great hope to the cane-farming undertaking to 
break it down still further. If they could only get the 
people to look upon the owners and managers of all 
the estates, both large and small, as being one with 
them, and to recognise that their prosperity was bound 
up with the prosperity of the people, a very great step 
would have been taken to bring about the desired 
result. The people were very gradually beginning to 
realize that their best friend was the planter ; that he 
was the man who could give them the most information, 
the man who could show them how to get money in 
the best and quickest way possible. Regarding the 
({uestion of weighing canes, he had great hopes that 
engineers would succeed in finding out a better way of 
measuring the weight of canes than by punt loads. He 
did not see that the Society could go any further in the 
matter, but was of opinion that they could very well 
undertake the responsibility of arbitration as had been 
suggested, in regard to disputes. 
Mr. Culpeper said he would suggest that the 
Agricultural Committee should go a step further and 
ascertain from the manager of estates in the different 
counties and from the various Village Councils, the area 
that would be at the disposal of farmerj for cane-farming 
next year. 
The Rev. D. J. Reynolds said he looked upon the move 
as one which could be very helpfijl to the peasantry of 
the colony. If they were to increase that desirable 
body — the small proprietary body — he thought they 
had in the cane-farming industry the remedy for a 
great many of the ills from which the colony now 
