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all governments of tropical countries. Moreover, the 

 temperate world has to depend on the Tropics for the 

 supply of numerous materials which have become neces- 

 saries of life and the basis of some of the most important 

 manufacturing industries of modern times. With these 

 remarks we cordially agree, because we believe that the 

 best, and, in fact, the only way to help the natives to help 

 themselves is to train up white planters, managers and 

 Government experts to go out and plant and make their 

 estates pay well, for once the native, be he in the East or 

 West, sees that the new-fangled ideas have wisdom in 

 them, i.e., that they give bigger profits, he will then follow 

 the example set and proved b}' practical results, whilst he 

 will not budge an inch when the teaching is only by theory. 

 " With this material progress made of late years," 

 Professor Dunstan went on to say, " had come, somewhat 

 slowly, the recognition of the fact that tropical agriculture 

 was an applied science, and the reflection that progress 

 would have been more rapid and less costly had it been 

 effected more generally under that enlightened direction 

 which depends on the considered application of scientific 

 principles. No one who had studied this question in its 

 many aspects could doubt that a great need existed for the 

 establishment within the British tropics of at least one 

 agricultural college, properly equipped with all the facilities 

 for instruction and research in the several branches of 

 tropical agriculture. The college should be Imperial in 

 its educational character and open to properly qualified 

 candidates from all parts of the Empire without distinction 

 of race, and whilst having close relations with Government 

 Departments of Agriculture in the country in which it is 

 established, should, as an educational institution, be 

 separately organized under the management of a board on 

 which all agricultural interests were represented." 



A remark of Professor Dunstan that it " cannot be 

 doubted that well-trained men with the diploma of a 

 (tropical agricultural) college will readily find remunerative 

 employment," still points to the idea that the bulk of the 

 students would train to work under others. Besides the 

 above the class of men we also want to see come as 

 students, and who we believe will frequent the colleges. 

 East and West, when established, are those who mean to 

 plant for themselves either alone or in pairs. These are 

 the men we want to see spread over the Tropics, and they 

 are just the class of men that are mt going at present in 

 such numbers as the requirements of this country call for. 



