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remarkable considering the limited outlook which young men 

 and boys naturally have in small West Indian islands. They 

 are sent to experimental stations for a certain time and the 

 experiments carried on at these stations illustrate on a small 

 scale what we are aiming- at on a larger scale. As regards 

 elementary teaching of adults in tropical agriculture, I should 

 like to touch on one point to which Mr. Lyne drew attention. 

 I should like emphatically to confirm what Professor Carmocfy 

 said with regard to the value of prize competitions. In 

 Dominica we have found, as Professor Carmody has pointed 

 out with regard to Jamaica and Grenada and it is now being 

 done by Trinidad also that we have been able by means of 

 prize competitions very greatly to improve the standard of 

 cocoa cultivation amongst the peasants of that island. I 

 should 1 also like to point out that during the last ten years a 

 very large colony of peasant Sea Island cotton planters has 

 sprung up. The chief characteristic of these islanders has 

 been that they are exceedingly careless agriculturists, but 

 owing to a large extent to the prize competitions which we 

 have instituted, there has been a great improvement, and they 

 have largely adopted those improved methods of cultivation 

 which are essential to the successful production of Sea Island 

 cotton, and it is surprising to see the exceedingly well culti- 

 vated plots of cotton in those districts which were formerly 

 so neglected. In conclusion, I should like to make one 

 remark in relation to the question of a tropical agricultural 

 college. Wherever the 'tropical agricultural college may be 

 located, and no matter whether there may be one or two, we 

 can never hope to realize within any one locality the broad 

 range of conditions which prevail throughout the tropics, but 

 at the same time the men who go there and work as students 

 will realize what after all is the main thing, the atmosphere 

 permeating the whole of the tropics, and the college will pro- 

 vide a focus and a centre for those tropical countries where 

 research work is being done, and will serve as a stimulus and 

 a guide to many of us who are attempting to do, in the 

 intervals of other occupations, a certain amount of purely 

 scientific work under our isolated conditions. 



The PRESIDENT : Gentlemen I am afraid we must now 

 bring this discussion to a close with a vote of thanks to the 

 readers of papers, though I am sure there are many here who 

 would like to make further contributions to the very inter- 

 esting discussion we have had this afternoon. The subject is 

 bound to come up at other meetings in other connections, and 

 I will only say now that the question of an Imperial agri- 

 cultural college in the tropics has since the opening of this 

 Congress assumed almost an international character. As 



