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The remarks that have fallen from him have been most instructive, and this 
leads me up to a matter which I would like to have ventilated. These 
Conferences, properly speaking, are intended to be educational, as are also the 
papers that are read. A gentleman takes up a certain subject, upon which he 
writes a paper, but unfortunately a good deal of extraneous matter crops up - 
into it which can hardly be called educational by any stretch of imagination. 
It is discursive, and takes up a lot of time that expunges from the 
business of the Conference most important educational matters. There are 
several questions that were to have been brought up whose position has been 
forced out by foreign matter. I do not think I am in a position to move a 
motion, but I would suggest that for any future Conferences the papers that 
are to be read by delegates be submitted to their respective societies, previous 
to being presented at the Conference, in time to be thoroughly considered, and 
sent to the Agricuitural Department to be printed in sufficient numbers for 
distribution to each of the delegates. When that paper is read, we have the 
gist of it, and are better able to debate it. Instead of a man having to get 
up and speak ¢mpromptu, he would have the opportunity of studying the subject, 
and any remarks that might fall from him would be of educational value to 
people who had not the practical experience that that man had had, and these 
Conferences would be considerably more productive of good. I own, with the 
greatest of pleasure, to have derived a great deal of instruction by my presence 
here, but I feel that if the system suggested had been carried out I should 
have gone home infinitely better informed, and would have derived during my 
stay here infinitely greater pleasure. I understand those at the head of 
affairs are only too anxious to do anything to further improve the Conferences, 
and I think the suggestion thrown out is quite feasible. 
Mr. AtkEn’s motion was then carried with acelamation. 
The Hon. J. V. Cuaraway: I am much obliged to you, gentlemen, for 
your vigorous display of pleasure. It is not altogether asinecure to preside at 
these meetings, because you are obliged to cut things short, and the chairman 
cannot be too polite. What Mr. Booker suggests is what we have aimed at, and 
what we haye been utterly unable to accomplish. The suggestion is all right; 
and when people are really anxious to come to these Conferences and take a 
pride in being nominated by their associations, we shall be able to get the 
papers in time so that they may be printed and distributed to delegates. But 
at the present we cannot get the associations to nominate their representatives 
even in decent time. Members are here now whose names arrived too late to 
be printed on the programme, and when we are unable to get the names it is 
even more impossible to get the papers submitted and selected. As Mr. Booker 
says, there is a good deal of extraneous matters in the papers, and, as you are 
aware, we have been forced to add two more sessions to our original programme. 
Mr. P..McLnan: I would just like to put myself right with reeard to 
Captain Henry’s remarks. I have had a good deal of experience in conferences, 
and knew what the probable result would be without a Resolutions Committee. 
Somebody had to take the initiative, and, in putting my motion, the object was 
simply to securé results from the Conference. I am not on the committee 
myself, and, so far as I could, I proposed gentlemen to sit on it representative 
of the various industries here represented. 
This concluded the regular business of the Conference, but on Thursday 
evening the representatives from the various sugar districts had a meeting at 
the Prince of Wales Hotel, at which the central sugar-mills and cognate 
matters were discussed at length. On the same evening at the Good Templars’ 
Hall, most of the rest of the delegates attended a meeting on the tick 
question, Mr. P. McLean being in the chair. Messrs. T. S. Beatty, H. 
Cattermull, L. P. Landsberg, C. J. Booker, and Bridgman gave a number of 
valuable and interesting facts in connection with their practical experience 
with the tick, on the conclusion of which Dr. S. Hunt, the Government 
Pathologist, answered at length a large sheaf of questions handed in to him in 
writing by delegates present. : 
