A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW 



LIBRAS 



NEW YO 



IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. ^ZZl 



OF THE 



Vol. IX. No. 20-5. 



BARBADOS, MARCH 5, 1910. 



Price Id. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Page. 



Agriciiltiir;i,l Echicjitiim, The 



Pidblem i)f 65 



Atjriciiltural Schools, Half- 

 Yearly Exaiiiinatioii of 71 



.Moohiil in the Philiiipiiies, 

 Pr(nluctii>n i)f 71 



Hunk Shelf 75 



Cotton Notes : — 



Cotton Seed Selection in 



the United States ... 70 



West Indian Cotton ... 70 



Department News 77 



Fibre Plani. An African ... 72 



Fibre Plant. The Perini ... 69 



Fungus Notes : — 

 TheChieftiroups of Fungi, 



Parti 78 



Gleanings 76 



(iround Nut. I'seful Facts 



Kegiirding the 68 



Insect Notes : — 



Carl)on I'.isuliihide. Part 1 



Market Reports 



Notes and Comments 



<>nionsin .\ntigua 



Pipe Calabash, South African 



Pulilications of Imperial 

 De])iirtment of Agri- 

 culture 



Rice in British Guiana ... 



Sisal in Mauritius 



Students' Corner 



Sugar Industry : — 



Epidemic .Sugar-cane Dis- 

 eases of the Past ... 



Swiss Milk G'>ats . 



Trade between Canada .-uid 

 the West Indies 



VVest Indian Products ... 



West Indian Seedling Canes 

 in (Queensland 



74 

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 72 

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Tlie Problem of Agricultui-al 



Education. 



I. The Essentials ok Ekicatio-v. 



.NE of the greatest advances in educational 

 ) matters was made when it was realized that 

 I the conditions of life had so changed, and the 

 work that had to be done every day for the people of 

 a country had become so specialized, that it was no 

 longer feasible to educate its inhabitants according to 

 one broad plan, the methods of which should be gene- 



rally applicable to all of them. The increase of 

 population, for one matter, had made it necessary that 

 the things required for the daily life should be produced 

 un a large scale, by the aid of machiner}', rather than 

 by individual craftsmen, and the cheapening of the 

 products of the new mode of manufacture, together 

 with the improved conditions of living, had again 

 reacted by bringing about a state of affairs that further 

 favoured the tendency for the population of a country 

 to increase at a greater rate than that which had ever 

 obtained before. Competition became keen, and it was 

 seen that education must no longer be simply a matter 

 of general preparation for living as an adult, and of the 

 provision of means for inculcating the principles of 

 discipline, but that it must be conducted, for each indi- 

 vidual, in a manner wnich had definite relation to that 

 part of the world's work to which his energies would 

 be devoted ultimately. 



The first effect of the realization of this fact h:vS 

 been to cause much stress to be laid on that side 

 of education which has for its object the production of 

 technical efficiency. There has been, in fact, too great 

 a tendency to give instruction, and to leave out most 

 of that which includes the esseritials of true education. 

 The result has been the production of schemes which 

 went little further than to devise means for imparting 

 knowledge, so that, ic relation to all that is meant by 

 education, no real advance was made on the old sj-stem. 

 Under the former conditions, the individual attained to 

 a wider experience, and little interference was made 

 with the chances for his later specialization, while the 

 new method limited him from the first, and did less to 

 provide him with the means of liberally enjoying his 

 leisure. Another result has been that whatever has 

 had relation to the more mechanical arts and crafts has 

 been fostered, to the comparative neglect, until 



