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of learning pra6lical agriculture on every sugar estate 
and there were two or three cocoa plantations where 
those who wished to learn could do so. Then such a 
School would be very expensive and the benefit not 
commensurate with the cost. The Committee thought 
therefore that until the people showed some desire for 
such an institution it would be as well to abandon the 
idea. 
On the motion of Mr. Mackay, seconded by Mr. 
Cochran, the report was nnanimously adopted. 
The Secretary read the annexed report of the Cana- 
dian Flour Committee. 
Mr. Mackay asked that the papers should be allowed 
to stand over until the proposed experiments were 
carried out. Meanwhile perhaps the " Daily Chronicle" 
would publish the Proceedings of the Committee. 
This was agreed to. 
The President reported that a meeting of the Exposi- 
tion Committee had been held, at which Mr. B. Howell 
Jones tendered his resignation as Commissioner, and Mr. 
Jacob H. De Jonge was nominated in his stead. This 
nomination had been forwarded to His Excellency the 
Governor, but up to the present nothing beyond a formal 
acknowledgment had been received. 
Mr. Hargreaves brought forward his motion, of which 
due notice had been given, that the Society urge the 
Government to offer inducements for tobacco cultivation. 
He knew little of tobacco himself, but he had bought 
good cigars on the Venezuelan side of the Amacura, and 
did not see why it could not be grown here as well. He 
did not expe6t that anything like that of Havana could be 
produced, in the colony, but he certainly thought some- 
