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transport, tools, &c., concluding with a short chapter on agri- 
culture in the tropics in primitive times and its gradual change to 
more modern methods, 
In Part II the principal cultivations of the tropics are set out 
in detail, and a large number of the different tropical products 
are illustrated. Tables are given in many cases of the 
amounts of the different articles exported, but it is un- 
tables are not carried beyond the 
of publication 1909. uggestions as to the improvement of 
tropical production by careful cultivation, hybridization, &c., are 
made throughout the chapters. It is of interest to notice that in 
ava, Liberian coffee has been successfully acclimatised up to 
tropics, and is concerned with peasant agriculture, finance, education 
of the peasant, and kindred subjects, and concludes with a usefu 
parts of India and Ceylon, &e, 
The careful education of the peasant, as is pointed out, is the only 
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agriculture in native hands, and this must be a very slow process. 
Something has already been done by the establishment of schoot 
gardens, and by these means and by peripatetic instructors much 
good is likely to arise in the future. As an instance of native 
gained in the process. Not only has the peasant proprietor much 
to learn, but also the owner of ‘the large estate and Dr. Willis has 
much of value to say to both classes, 
The concludi &, part is taken up with a consideration of 
ss brace organisation and policy and questions as to the 
iistration of departments, laying out of lands, and the formation 
agricultural societies, An adequate index concludes the volume. 
