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A system has been recommended in Belgium whereby the 

 adult natives would be compelled to plant a given number of 

 trees and provide for their upkeep, the crops belonging to the 

 natives. This system is called by some people forced labour; 

 others are of opinion that it would rapidly improve the con- 

 dition of the natives. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN THE GOLD COAST. 



By W. H. PATTERSON. 

 Government Entomologist, Gold Coast Colony. 



[No abstract supplied by the author.] 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN THE PUNJAB. 

 By J. H. BARNES, B.Sc., F.I.C., F.C.S., 



Principal of the Punjab Agricultural College and Agricultural 

 Chemist to the Punjab Government. 



[No abstract supplied by the author.] 



[DISCUSSION.] 



The PRESIDENT : I would ask you, before proceeding to 

 discuss these papers, to give your thanks to the authors to 

 Dr. Gough for having read Mr. Dudgeon's paper; to Dr. 

 Manetti for reading Dr. Gioli's paper; and lastly, to Mr. 

 Hamel Smith. These have been very interesting communi- 

 cations. Mr. Dudgeon discusses in detail the necessity of the 

 establishment of an agricultural college in the tropics, and no 

 one can speak with greater authority or larger experience. 

 Mr. Dudgeon, as many of you are aware, was originally a 

 planter in India. He then took up the study of tropical 

 agriculture in Egypt, Ceylon, and the United States. He was 

 next appointed Inspector of Agriculture in British West 

 Africa, where he made every year tours of inspection and 

 produced some valuable reports to the Colonial Office, and he 

 now occupies the very important position of Consulting 

 Agriculturist to the Government of Egypt. With regard to 

 Dr. Gioli's paper, though I am afraid some of us were not 

 able to follow it with that completeness we desired, owing to 



