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space has been allotted to accommodate a very comprehensive 
and useful library. 
Adjoining the office is a small but well equipped laboratory. 
Near by stands the class room, Foreman’s house, tool and packing 
houses, potting shed, two propagating houses and a fumigator; 
the latter being used for imported seeds and plants which, when 
necessary, are brought straight from the Customs house and 
fumigated before the importer is allowed to take possession. 
A few yards further away is situated a meteorological shed, 
and a cocoa drying house. The latter is of the ordinary type 
with sliding trays and a furnace to supply artificial means of 
drying when wet weather necessitates the trays being pushed 
back under cover. A considerable quantity of cocoa, nutmegs, 
and cola nuts, passes through this house in the course of a year. 
AGRICULTURAL INSTRUCTION. 
The present day system of agricultural training takes the 
place of the more elaborate provision of 20 years ago, when a ~ 
grant of money from the Imperial Government allowed of from 
20 to 25 boys being trained and accommodated in the old 
military buildings at the Morne. In those days the pupils, 
under the charge of an Agricultural officer of the Department, 
were fed and clothed and schooled in general agriculture, as well 
as in subjects of an elementary education, for which a school- 
master was employed. Field work commenced at 7.30 a.m. 
and at 11 a.m. the boys were brought in and placed under the 
care of the schoolmaster until 4 p.m. when all instruction for 
the day came to an end and the boys were encouraged to take 
part in games and sports organised by the officer in charge. 
It is interesting to record that at that time pedigree animals 
were kept for stud purposes and the care of these animals 
together with school gardens, and bee-keeping formed part of 
the boy’s agricultural training. 
The stock included :— 
Horses, Donkeys, Cows, Sheep, Goats, Pigs, Rabbits, 
and Poultry. 
The grant made by the Imperial Government for the upkeep 
of the Morne school was withdrawn in 1910, and, as the local 
Government was not in a position financially to take over the 
school and continue the good work on a similar scale, it became 
necessary in that year to dispose of the stock and close the 
buildings. The need of a system for training the youth of the 
island in agricultural methods after the closing of the Morne 
school was met by the local Government in 1911, when a small 
class room was erected in the Botanic Garden, and six boys 
were admitted as pupils for a period of two years. This system 
of training started in 1911 is in force at the present time. 
hen new pupils are required to take the places of those who 
have completed the course, an advertisement is inserted in the 
