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The Journal of the Royal 
their ideas on the railway possibilities of the future. 
At the monthly meetings, besides tlie usual routine 
business, discussions took place on : Fruit shipments to 
Canada ; The Agricultural Conference at Barbados ; 
Desiccated Cocoanut ; Banana Food Products and 
preservation of Tropical fruits and vegetables, in 
connection with Professor Spawn's evaporation process. 
And, at a recent meeting, in presenting some publica- 
tions of the Department, I took the opportunity of 
explaining the excellent methods of the Department of 
Agriculture and Technical Education for Ireland as 
worthy of imitation in our own colony in educating 
the people in agriculture and minor industries. 
A special meeting of the Society was held in February 
to hear the views of Mr. Chas. Pickford as to the 
desirability of having a representation of the colony at 
the Toronto Exhibiton. A small but fairly good and 
representative selection of exhibits was eventually got 
together as the result of that meeting, showing the 
principal products of the colony, which along with other 
West Indian exhibits made an interesting show at the 
exhibition and attracted considerable attention to our 
mineral, as well as agricultural resources. 
The usual Horticultural Show, which had been held 
regularly every year since 1893 under the auspices of 
the Society, was not held this year, the Directors feeling 
that the Society was not justified in facing the annually 
recurring loss resulting on the holding of the Show, the 
practical educational advantages accruing not being 
deemed commensurate with that loss, especially in the 
absence of any promised grant or guarantee from the 
Government, which was appUed for in the ordinary 
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