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PROMOTION OF MR. T. J. HARRIS. 



Mr. T. J. Harris, Agriculturallnstructor and Assistant Superinten- 

 dent at Hope Gardens, has been sel'^cted by His Excellency Sir H. L. 

 Greary, Governor of Bermuda, for the post of Superintendent of the 

 Public Gardens of that Colony. 



The duties are to take charge of the Public Garden — an Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, established for the improvement of agriculture 

 in Bermuda, the education of the farmers in better methods, and the 

 introduction of new profitable crops. 



The salary is at the rate of £300 per annum with house and with 

 fees for inspecting imported bulbs. 



Mr. Harris's work in Jamaica has been of a similar nature, and it is 

 due to the satisfactory way in which his work has been done, that he has 

 received the appointment. He has been successful in the special work 

 assigned to him at Hope Gardens of working out the details involved 

 in the art of growing and curing both Havana and Sumatra tobacco, 

 in hybridising Pine Apples and growing the seedlings, &c. After two 

 or three years of constant experiment for the Director, he has found 

 out how to bud the Mango. By the same method he has budded Cocoa 

 which is of enormous importance to cocoa planters in every land, — in 

 fact it is an epoch marking discovery in cocoa growing. The system 

 has been extended to the budding of Nutmegs, Avocado Pear, Sapo- 

 dilla, &c 



Mr. Harris has taught the principles of practical agriculture to the 

 Hope Industrial boys, the garden apprentices, the students at the 

 Mico and Shortwood Training Colleges, students at the Laboratory, 

 and has assisted in the Teachers' annual course at Hope and the Mico, 

 besides acting as Superintendent of the Gardens in the absence of Mr. 

 William Harris. 



He takes with him the good wishes of his colleagues and those who 

 have benefited by his instructions. 



"W. Fawcett, 

 Director of Public Gardens and Plantations. 



THE STORY OF THE PAP AW. III. 



By F. B. Kilmer* 

 ( Continued from Bulletin for April.) 

 The Ferments of the Papaw^. (continued.) 



The ferment may be extracted from the dried milk by water or 

 glycerine (neutral, acid or alkaline), by vei'y dilute alcohol (5 — 100) ; 

 and from such a solution may be precipitated by any of the usual 

 methods, such an excess of full strength alcohol, saturation with al- 

 kaline salts, etc. 



The following are the most important of the practical methods of 

 separation. The first three are the methods of Peckholt : 



(1) Exhaust the juice w'th ether; then exhaust the residue, first 

 with absolute alcohol and next with 80 per cent, alcohol ; the dried re- 

 sidue is then treated with water which dissolves it almost entirely 

 forming a turbid solution. The waterly solution is finally precipitated 

 with alcohol; the precipitate washed with alcohol, and dried over calci- 



*Reprinted from the '* American Journal of Pharmacy." 



