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intimate connection with the agriculture of a district in 

 all that concerns general development and progress, as 

 well as in connection with the work of combating and 

 controlling pests and diseases. By the intimate associa- 

 tion of an agricultural college with an Agricultural 

 Department it will be possible for advanced students to 

 be afforded opportunities of studying real practical 

 problems, and of taking part in real live work connected 

 with the subjects of their special study. With such an 

 association it will be possible also on occasion to place 

 particular pieces of work in the hands of advanced 

 students, whereby under adequate guidance they may 

 acquire and exercise responsibility and originality in an 

 extended degree not readily obtainable in the narrower 

 confines of the college. 



It is unnecessary here to attempt to do more than 

 indicate in the briefest outline the equipment required in 

 an agricultural college, which one may now think of as 

 including or being based on an institute of agricultural 

 research. Obviously, this must include an adequate 

 professional staff capable of teaching and investigating in 

 regard to chemistry, physics, botany, mycology, zoology, 

 entomology, veterinary science, agriculture, and horti- 

 culture, and also the work involved in the specific 

 industries coming within the scope of the college, such as, 

 for example, in connection with tropical agriculture, the 

 cultivation and preparation of such products as sugar, 

 cacao, tea, coffee, spices, rubber, starches, fibres, fruit, 

 and a host of others. 



In conclusion, it may be stringently urged upon all 

 those giving consideration to the providing of agricultural 

 education that they carefully bear in mind the capabilities 

 and needs of the many classes of students, ranging from 

 the agricultural labourer to the scientific expert dealing 

 with only a limited range of subjects, and that in putting 

 forward any scheme of agricultural education they should 

 both ask themselves and answer the questions : What is 

 the aim and object of the training offered? What class 

 of person is it designed for? And what kind of life-work 

 (wage-earning work) is he to be expected to undertake 

 when he has received the training proposed? 



