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classes, the one comprehending sugar, the other all 
miscellaneous products, or in other words, the one con- 
sisting of the one product about which any trouble is 
here taken, and the other including all those other pro- 
ducts which are produced, either because they more or 
less directly tend to the making of sugar, or because 
nature unassisted produces them, and man, tempted by 
the hope of gaining a prize for them at the Exhibition, 
collects them if he happens to stumble over them in his 
idle moments. As regards the former of these two 
classes, no words are necessary to explain the statement 
that the production of sugar is the one industry here 
earnestly undertaken. As regards the latter class, all 
who think for a moment, will realize the fact that of the 
exhibits other than sugar, some are produced solely as an 
indirect means of making sugar, either because some 
things, such as cattle and garden produce, are necessary 
as the food of the sugar makers, or because others, as race- 
horses, art productions, and needlework, are necessary 
to the amusement of some of the sugar-makers them- 
selves or of those who minister to their wants ; nor is 
it difficult to realize that all exhibits other than sugar, 
such as the fibres, the dried plantains and cassava, the 
oils, and the barks, are sent to the Exhibition, not 
because there is • any endeavour to produce them for 
practically useful purposes, but because they are 
easily made or gathered, and may win a prize of a 
few dollars for the exhibitor. This is an unsatisfactory 
state of things and certainly does not indicate that the 
purpose of these Exhibitions of encouraging variety in 
our industry, is at present being attained. And yet these 
