

AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE. 473 



The practical instruction to be conducted as follows : — 



1st year. — The pupil to superintend everything connected 

 with the live-stock and farming-implements. He should, under 

 the control of the director, attend to the pasture, fences, stables, 

 carts, ploughs, &c, and have under his authority the cartmen, 

 crook-boys, &c. He should learn to break and train animals, to 

 dress and bleed the same when sick, to drive a cart, conduct a 

 plough, and to attain a ready skill, manual or directory, in the 

 usage of other implements. 



2nd year. — The pupil would superintend the field-work, the 

 drainage and preparation of- land, planting, weeding, cutting 

 canes, and other operations — under the immediate control of one 

 of the senior, or third year's pupils. 



3rd year. — During the three months immediately following 

 the end of the crop, say, during June, July, and August, the 

 senior pupils will superintend the field-labours, together with the 

 second year's pupils; they will then take under their charge all 

 the preparations for the ensuing crop-season — such as the re- 

 pairing and putting in order the mill and the boiling-house, 

 preparing specifications for mason, cooper, and carpenter's work, 

 including the necessary materials. During the crop it will be 

 their duty to superintend the boiling-house, and to conduct all 

 operations connected with the manufacture of sugar. 



A public examination to take place at the end of the year, 

 and a prize to be awarded to each class — unless, however, the 

 pupils should not be found sufficiently improved. 



Each pupil to pay a premium of 200 dollars for the first 

 year, 100 dollars for the second, and to receive 100 dollars as 

 overseer's salary for the third year. The money received to be 

 placed to the account or credit of the farm. The pupils to be 

 boarded at the expense of Government for the first two years, 

 and by the farm during the third year — the latter as part of 

 overseer's salary. 



Although I attach great importance to chemical analyses, 

 yet I am of opinion that superior and more economical results 

 would be gained, without material difference to the colonists, by 

 obtaining analyses of soils and plants from chemists in Europe, 

 rather than by forming a laboratory and having a chemist 

 attached to the establishment in the island. 



" Central Agricultural Committee."— Events have fully 



