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Progress Made by Organisation Past Half Year Detailed by Mr. A. F. Thelwell. REARSAGE PROGRESS made by the J.A.S. for the January-June half year period was detailed to the Board of Management yesterday by Mr. A. F. Thelwell, Secretary, at the regular half-yearly meeting which was convened at the Society's offices at North Parade and presided over by Hon. G. Seymour-Seymour, First Vice-President. Reports showed that during the period branch membership in creased by over 2,200 branches doubled the volume of seed dis tribution by the Society; success was attained along major produc tive lines; tomato growing in south Manchester and St. Elizabeth, po tato growing in St. Ann and Man chester, lime extension and white yam growing in St. Ann and Clarendon. In addition to these the Secretary also reported a con siderable increase in correspond ence volume. The entire Board unhesitatingly agreed with the Secretary that the Society’s activities for the first half year have been remarkably progressive. Present were Hon. Seymour Seymour, Mr. Thelwell, Hon. G. A. Jones, Director of Agriculture, Hon. and Rev. J. W. Maxwell, Messrs T. P. V. McDaniel, P. St. Leger Bacquie, A. Theo McKay, Rudolph A. Burke, T. J. Cawley, C. Owen Cover, C. L. A. Stuart, Hon. Maurice Segre, Messrs D. D. Phillips, W.J. Thompson, F. . V. Smith, Marketing Officer, and A. P. Hanson, Supervisor of Agri cultural Instructors. . The Auditor's Report confirmed in a measure the reported all round progress, and showed in de tail that the Society is in a good financial position. A satisfactory percentage of turnover was reported in all de partments, resulting from an all round decrease in the cost of materials and seeds to growers. Mr. Thelwell said the Society had actually doubled their turn over for the period, which was a wonderful achievement. Mr. Burke led the Board in congratulating the officers of the Society, and asked that their satis faction over the results reported be recorded in the minutes. An important part of the meet ing was the views expressed in the report of the marketing of ficer, which would undoubtedly be of great public interest. This was taken “on camera.” OPENS PROCEEDINGS Mr. Seymour opened the meet ing with welcome to Mr. Burke, recently returned from an Ameri can vacation which he hoped was thoroughly enjoyed, and con gratulations to Mr. Cover for his services to his home parish in ap preciation of which citizens made a souvenir presentation to him. Minutes of the last half-yearly meeting were confirmed on mo tion of Messrs McKay and Cover, following which the Secretary read correspondence from the Director of Agriculture in respect of Government aid to citrus grow ers. By recent Council resolution Government decided that growers with less than 2 acres of citrus cultivation should not be aided financially by the Citrus Develop ment Loan Board, Chairman of which is Mr. Smith. Discussions led by the Chairman, Secretary, Messrs Cawley, McKay and Cover, were that while the inclusion of these small growers in the scheme would involve alto gether-a recast of the scheme, it was most desirable. Mr. Smith said he felt sure Government would give ear to any workable scheme the Society was in a position to recommend. Mr. McKay pointed out that such proper provision in the scheme as should be recommend ed should include alteration of the constitution of Loan Banks to provide for long term loans, in stead of short term loans as at present. The matter should be put to the Legislative Council, and elected members asked to see it through, Mr. McKay maintained, _The agreement reached was that the Secretary should prepare a scheme to be submitted at the next meeting for discussion , and forwarding to Government. ~~ _ J. A. S. JOURNAL Under “Questions” on the agenda Mr. Cawley asked the reason for the spasmodic mailing of copies of the Journal, instead of month ly as they are printed. The Secretary's reply was that during sittings of the Legislative Council the excess printing thrown on the Government Printing Of fice resulted in delay in getting the Journal off. _ Mr. McKay recalled that some years ago private enterprise made an offer in connection with print ing of the Journal, which offer the Society “in a fit of commercial generosity” rejected, with the re sult now complained of. The Board discussed the advis ability of dividing the work of printing the Journal between a private enterprise and the Govern ment Printing Office, finally agreeing with the Secretary that this was the practicable thing to do. Messrs Stuart and Cawley open ed the door of complaint against the illegibility of reports sent to members from the office, which the Secretary promised to pay greater attention to in the future, Letter from the C.S.0, covering a memorandum on Sugar Cane experiments, was read. In the let ter was the stated request that the memo be published in the Journal for general information. Discussions led by Messrs Mex Kay and Cover dissolved the sub ject down to a question of wheth er or not the report should be published. Mr. McKay's opinion was that publication would have one ef fect—that is, to “show up the de partment of Agriculture) as not being sufficiently posted on the subject matter. Mr. Phillips voted solitarily against publication. Correspondence from Mr. T. W., Briscoe in respect of an Anti erosion campaign was discussed briefly and voted for handling by the Instructors Committee, copies being in the meantime circulated to members for study. Following reading of the Secre tary’s report, Mr. McDaniel cited the necessity of the Society cir culating branches and instructors with a view to removing an er roneous impression that there was a ban placed on the number of branch societies which may be formed. Tig: Board ‘agreed that here was no’ limit to the number of branch’ societies which may be armed in a parish. The Secretary will circulate the information to instructors. NEW ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR The Board approved the appoint ment of Mr. A. L. Robinson as an assistant instructor on six months probation, in connection with which Mr. Cawley was told that the Instructors’ Committee will de cide where the new appointee will be stationed. Dealing with an application from Walsonton School, Vere, for a grant in raid of their juvenile agricul tural project, Mr. Hanson inform ed the Board that he had ‘visited the area, which was near Alley, and observed the work being car ried on. The grant requested was to en able the branch to set up a fence to protect their work from animals —which Mr. Hanson said were al lowed to roam freely about. One guinea was voted. Members expressed that these juvenile ef forts should be given every en couragement. The question of how far the Society should go in respect of the White Yam Competitions was discussed with enthusiasm. Mr. Thelwell reported the great pro gress achieved in St. Ann and Clarendon, and of the enthusiasm which had spread the industry to Malvern. “The question is what is the best thing to do,” he stated, after members had spoken on the com petitions. Mr. Seymour express ed the fear that white yam grow ing would jeopardise the potato market. The fear was however dissipated by Mr. McKay who pointed out that white yam was a storeable product unlike potato. The Board agreed, on motion, to allocate £ 35 to the competition— Manchester and Clarendon £ 25 and St. Elizabeth £ 10. The luncheon adjournment was then taken. AFTERNOON SESSION The afternoon session opened with the consideration of several resolutions which dealt with land settlement, roads, water supplies, etc. Two resolutions from half yearly meetings were passed by the Board, asking for the reten tion of the services of the pre sent Secretary, Mr. A. F. Thelwell. The First Vice-President ex plained that the Director of Agri culture and he were discussing the matter with Government, but as the Colonial Secretary was at the present time busy with the Legislative Council it was hoped that after the adjournment the matter would be satisfactorily ar ranged. The St. Andrew Branches re corded their regret at the passing of Mr. Morgan Jones in a reso lution in which they recalled the high hopes held out to them by Mr. Jones when he addressed them. A resolution dealing with af forestation from the Manchester Branches was passed by the Board, and the first Vice-President remarked that they could not talk too much about afforestation in this country, because if it was going to be worth anything in the next fifty years they had to start now. Multiple resolutions came in from various branches dealing with land settlement, and it was decided to reply to those pointing out that the matter is being dealt with by the Government who have appointed a Board to administer the funds—£ 200,000 which have been allocated for the scheme. In dealing with resolutions which complained of the bad con ditions of the roads in land settle ments, the Board decided to write Government asking for a state ment with regard to the policy in this respect—as to who should maintain these roads. The following new members were elected: Thos. W. Briscoe, Finn Planta tion, Banana Ground, M. ©. Dougall, Petersfield, Sea forth, Shim Kong, 43 West Street, Eng. Henry George DeLisser, High gate. A. A. Robinson, Blackstonedge. Moses Matalon, 149 Harbour St., Kingston. Allan VY. Lyons, 13 South Camp Road, Kingston. Major A. C. Paton, Sussex, St. Ann's Bay. Percy Junor, Spaldings, L. H. Bicknell, Agualta Valery 1. Annotto Bay. E. E. C. Henriques, Industrial Garage, Church St., Kingston, W. L. Coke-Kerr, Barossa Cot tage, Mandeville, T. H. Sharp, Christiana. The half-yearly meeting of the Society will be held on July 27. The Secretary announced that they had bought three telescope third-dimension picture films of agricultural subjects for the use of the juvenile branches. Activity in juvenile branches was growing rapidly. There were now 74 juvenile classes which were ex hibiting great enthusiasm. HOG SICKNESS Sporadic outbreaks of hog sick ness have ben reported in St. Thomas, St. Andrew, and at Pleasant Valley in Clarendon, and now the Society received reports from Frankfield in Clarendon. The Board was of the opinion that free inoculation should be carried out, and the Secretary has been direct ed to take up the matter with Government. The cost of inoculation was said to be high, and was be yond the means of many of the owners.
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