TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN TROPICAL AGRICULTURE 4! 



hands of the Government of the Punjab, a sum with 

 which to commence operations, and the local Government 

 added to this a further sum of one and a half lakhs, 2 and 

 began the formation of a Department of Agriculture 

 which, in the first instance, consisted of a civilian director, 

 with four European experts, two agriculturists, one of 

 whom was to be the principal of the new college and the 

 other a district officer, one chemist, and one botanist. 

 The site chosen for the new college was situated on a 

 piece of land near Lyallpur in the Lower Chenab Canal 

 Colony, land which had been reserved from the early 

 days of the opening of the colony to serve as a Govern- 

 ment experimental farm. Building operations were com- 

 menced in 1906, and two blocks of buildings, one consist- 

 ing of laboratories, lecture rooms, offices, museums, 

 library, etc., and the other of the laboratories and lecture 

 rooms for the teaching of chemistry and physics. These 

 buildings were completed in 1911, by which time a college 

 workshop, and a small electric generating station and 

 gas plant had been added. The total cost of the buildings 

 was Rs. three lakhs, fifty-one thousand nine hundred and 

 twenty-four, 3 and the fitting and equipment and scientific 

 apparatus, tools, machinery, etc., Rs. one lakh, eighty- 

 five thousand four hundred and twenty-five 4 more. In 

 the equipment of the college provision was made by the 

 Staff to carry out research work in the different sciences 

 as well as the ordinary routine teaching. The college 

 laboratories are roomy and well-aired; thus, for example, 

 one of the botanical laboratories has a floor space of 

 51 by 31 ft. and a height of 26 ft., the whole of one side 

 facing north being fitted with large windows, so that a 

 microscope can be used at any point of the laboratory. 

 One of the chemical laboratories has a floor space of 

 60 by 27 ft. and a height of 25 ft., and is fitted with every 

 modern convenience, the details of all fittings having 

 been worked out by the specialist in charge of each 

 section. The college was opened to students in Sep- 

 tember, 1909, and a course of instruction which had been 



2 10,000 sterling. 3 ^23,462 sterling. 



4 12,365. sterling. 



