The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-09-29

have governor at nearly the cost OF
$4,000, (nearly the income ofthe presl-
dent of United States. judges at from
$4,000 to $4,000 and everything in
proportion, so that this little negro
dependency, cost nearly, if not more
than 100000 per annum to rule.
/ When the emancipation took place
there were only two classes OF people,
the whites and the blacks, the latter
slaves and the former, whatever their
condition, Mdsso's. There were no
middlemen of consequence; tor
white man to do bodily work was
looked upon as disgraceful. In fact
! no small industries could get in, for
the large sugar and coffee plantations
monopollzed all the land, and any
property for sale was quickly bought
up and added to the acreage OF the
old plantations. No lands could be
bought by new settlers for love or
money. Minor industries were un-
known, and those who tried them
were so ridiculed that they LETT III
disgust. The policy of the British
government should have been at the
first to appoint instructors Of agra'
culture, to open markets for the
minor products and teach the inhab'
itants, who were impoverished by
the change, to turn their attention to
the cultivation of small farms and
enobling white labor Have they
done so? In no manner whatever.
They have a Botanical Garden that
distributes plants gratis, but in our
long residence there we never saw a
single pamphlet of instructions, Civ
ing how to plant, how to grow, and
how to sell any plant distributed
from the gardens, and the people
who get the plants are in the position
of the man who bought an elephant
at public sale.
Jamaica can be made the Garden
Spot of the world it can be made the
homes of thousands of Engllshmen
who leave Great BritainT note from
dissatisfaction with their government,
but for the purpose of making homes
and escape the over-pressure ofpopu-
lation and would still be glad to re-
main British citizens. The sick peo-
pie of Great Britain would find a
sanitarium in the mountains of Ja'
maica unsurpassed byany in the world
Poor men, if instructed, could find
land that one acre with proper Guilt
walton, could support family but for
the over-government and over-philan-
thropy. Everything is done in ia
maica on the rudest and uncivilized
plan AS to horticulture there is
none. Allow us to state one single
point. Jamaica is the only country
in the world that grows Pimento,
(allspice) for shipment. This plant
cannot be set out like other spices.
The ripe berries are eaten by the
birds and the seeds drop in the
woods, which when cut down, the
seeds spring up in Plmento. The
young trees cannot be transplanted,
and nine tenths of those in the pas
lures are male trees, for the Pimento
is dioci09us; only one tenth of those
male trees are required and yet we
have never seen any attempt made to
cut down the others and bud them
when young. The people know
nothing, nor is there the least at.
tempt on the part of the government,
who taxes them some 100000, to
teach them anything. They do not
even know how to bud an orange !;
and although hundreds of vessels are
trading there tor bananas they have
never even tried TO find out if there
are not more profitable bananas to
grow than what they have, although
there are fifty varieties of bananas
that have never been introduced into