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some time an Honorary Member, will receive the great- 
est consideration at my hands, 
I have the honour to be. 
Sir, 
Your most obedient servant, 
D. MORRIS, 
Commissioner of Agriculture 
for the West Indies. 
A communication from Dr. Morris, covering a copy 
of the " Report of the Agricultural Work for 1900, of 
the Imperial Department of Agriculture " was read, 
and the Secretary was desired to thank Dr. Morris for 
the Report. 
In connection with Dr. Morris's letter, Professor 
Harrison said that the majority of the scientific 
delegates to the Conference agreed with Mr. Scard in 
his criticisms ; he (Prof. Harrison) had spoken to many 
of them at the Conference, and had since received 
several letters expressing the same opinions as those in 
Mr. Scard 's report. The President remarked that their 
Society was not one of the oldest but the oldest 
in the British Empire outside of Scotland, where 
the Highland Society was older. 
The President then introduced Mr. E. N. McDavid, 
wlio, he said, would read a paper on the working of 
a small farm. Mr. McDavid had had some experience 
of farming on the Demerara River, but his paper would 
deal with a typical farm on the East Coast. Mr. 
McDavid then read the annexed paper : — 
The Working of a Small Farm. 
In a colony like ours where agricultural pursuits 
are of the first importance in almost all the rural dis- 
