TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN TROPICAL AGRICULTURE 5 



MALAY STATES. Rubber, tapioca. 



INDIA. Tea, coffee, cinchona, cotton, sugar, indigo, 

 tobacco, and jute. 



AFRICAN COLONIES. Cotton, oil seeds, cocoa, coffee, 

 rubber (of several kinds), kola. 



In connection with the college there should be a demon- 

 stration plantation of a sufficiently large extent to enable 

 a practical study being made of the habits and methods of 

 cultivation employed with respect to all the above-named 

 crops, but in order to obtain a diploma the student might 

 only be required to qualify in tea, rubber, cocoa, and 

 cotton, with another selected subject. 



The chemical, entomological, and botanical sides of all 

 the products dealt with should be made a compulsory 

 part of the training for the diploma course, and facilities 

 should be given for students to specialize in any of these 

 subjects. 



The preparation or manufacture of such of the products 

 as require it should form part of the instruction, and the 

 working of the necessary machines should be demon- 

 strated. The different modes of cultivation or prepara- 

 tion of the same product in different countries is a point 

 of importance; the cultivation of tea, for example, varies 

 considerably in Assam, Darjeeling, Punjab, and Ceylon. 



Accepting the fact that the majority of students in the 

 tropical college would be candidates for posts upon 

 rubber, tea, cotton, cocoa, or coffee plantations, where a 

 large number of labourers are retained for the working 

 of the estate, it is necessary to consider what subjects, in 

 addition to those directly associated with the cultivation, 

 scientific treatment, and preparation of these plantation 

 products, are useful, if not essential, to obtain the best 

 results. Among these, surveying, building construction, 

 the erection of machinery, sanitary arrangement of 

 labourers' dwellings, uses of simple medicines, first 

 treatment of epidemics, and book-keeping are of import- 

 ance. 



In the few agricultural schools in existence, as, for 

 instance, those in South Africa, some of the sub-tropical 

 plantation products are studied in the school course, and 

 demonstration farms are employed to assist in the 



