Excerpt from The African Repository, and Colonial Journal, Vol. 8: February, 1833 Desirous of exciting still more aspirit of Agricultural enterprise among the colonists, the Managers appointed a committee some months ago, to consider what means might best be employed for this end. The report made by this committee and adopted by the Board, proposes to allow premiums to such as shall within a reasonable time raise the largest quantities ofthe most necessary and useful pro ducts, also to such as shall first train cattle to labour. And use the plough in cultivation; that the introduction of cer tain valuable animals should in the same way be encouraged; that various seeds, fruit trees and vines. Be sent to the Colony: that an assortment of agricultural implements be entrusted to the Colonial Agent, to be sold at moderate prices to the settlers; and that a public garden shall be put in cultivation, wherein may be shown by careful experi ments, what indigenous or exotic plants. Fruits and yege tables will best reward the labours of the husbandman. No time will be lost in carrying completely into effect the provisions of this report, which can hardly fail to increase the industry and energy with which the colonists are begin ning to engage in agricultural pursuits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.