, 1892-11-05

sugars: divided between the Central Fac
tory and estates, the chemist would scarce
ly have sufficient time for either. The mea-
sure here proposed is nothing new it has
been used with a great deal of beneficial
results elsewhere, and we may be sure to
have good benefit of it here too he would
therefore support the proposal and recommend
it to the Colonial Council.
The Governor said he was glad to see the
Draft we'll received by the two honorable
Members who had commented on it. With
reference to the remarks from both Mem
bers regarding the place for the Laboratory,
he must say the reason why the Factory
has been preferred is because a chemist is
there already, and IA Laboratory too is there.
He must confess he could nos SEE the great
advantage to be derived from having the
Chemist located ON the Kings Estate.
Even if-aud this he considered as a given
thing-a great deal Of experiments will be
made ON those Estates, the distances are not
SO great neither from there nor elsewhere
to the Factory, and there is of course no
thing to prevent chemical anal ysiN Of soils
being made at q distance from the locality
of the soil. AS for the use to be made of the
Chemist, time will show, if there will really
be so much demand as stated if SO, then the
scope Of the Laboratory might be extended.
IN Tie COnn6uCou6uG GIcT6 IIlAY DB q great
deal of work for the chemist it will proba-
bly, so here, as in Barbados later on there
will not be so much use for the chemist.
But certainly, the Agricultural Laboratory
may do us good service.
2nd Member for Frederiksted's Country
District (BlackUood) could agree with his Ex-
cellency on the points gained by having the
Laboratory at the Central Factory, but he be-
lieved that a Resident Chemist will be having
as much as he can overcome and will soon re-
quire an Assistant On the other hand, it is
a judicious move to have the measure carried
out as economically ss possible and there can
be no doubt that a great deal of good results
will be obtained even with the Laboratory
located there. He did not know how much
is required to be done by the Factory's Che
mist for the Factory; any how out of crop he
will certainly not have SO much to attend to
there; still the crop time is just the period
when planters will require his services to
test sugar.
The Governor: During Crop season the
chemist will not b. at disposal tor anal wing
So%il;(out of crop he will be at disposal; testing
of sugar can be done at any time.
End Member for FrederikSted's Country Die
trict Black,ooOd, During Crop planters would
not require the services Of the che mist for
analysing soil this will be required in the
fall of the year, during the planting season.
He had been given to understand by the Che
mist from Antigua, and he had also read, that
the simplest way in slmpIing soil is by Il
piece Of boiler pipe, IS inches long, and
bore it in the soil, the soil inside is taken out,
air dried, on q piece Of paper, placed under y
gallery; such samples selt to the said che
mist would be Analysed, and he would state
what it contains and what it requires.
In a 10 acre piece one sample to
be taken from every acre, each one
be analysed then all ten mixed together
and o general analysis taken of the whole.
LIST Member for Christiansted (Crsagh): As
far as he can see, this measure is q crest boon,
a thing which all planters interested in
the welfare of the island without hest
tation will go in for. Perhaps later
on it might be necessary to have
q man Individually for the purpose
of analysing soil and testing sugar but
for the present it is not necessary and he
would therefore join in recommending this
proposal to be adopted as submitted. It is
a pity this measure was not taken years ago;
bat now we have it at our doors, and we
should secure it. He would propose that the
bill be put to the vote.
No one requested the word further 1st
discussion was clio ed, and the bill passed to
2nd discussion at tho request of the Govern
mani II was mt tn vote IF tba 0pd d;souos;on