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to the cultivation ot* canes, and they should be 
requested to report from time to time to the Society 
as to the extent of the cultiv^ation. What the people 
wanted was instruction. 
The Chairman said he had listened with very great 
interest to the discussion that had taken place, and he 
thought the suggestions made were very valuable 
indeed. He thought they might ask the Agricultural 
Committee to draw up the leaflet as suggested by the 
Rev. Mr. Reynolds as to the advantages of cane -farming 
and the best way of going about it, for distribution. 
With regard to the suggestion as to the appointment of 
local secretaries, he supposed members were aware that 
the Government were about to appoint an Agricultural 
Board, and he thought it might be one of the duties of 
that Board to interest itself in matters of that sort. 
Howev^er, it did not follow that the Society should not 
do everything in its power to promote the cane-farming 
industry. With regard to what Mr. Culpeper had said 
about the progress made in cane-farming, he would 
remind him that the seed in connection with the 
industry had just been sown, and they could not expect 
the idea to catch on all at once. A beofinnino: had been 
made, and he felt confident that the cane-farming 
industry would steadily extend. When a farmer 
received a sum of money for his crop, it would be an 
encouragement to his neighbour to go in for the 
industry. He had no doubt that when the industry 
was fairly started it would go on progressing. He 
might state that a plant was now on order for liftino- 
the canes out of the punts and weighing them before 
putting them in the cari'icrs. With regard to the kind 
of cane to be grown, that was a matter which must be 
