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was to be made to teach practical Agriculture 

 or "farming." This was to be the business of 

 later years assisted by the Agricultural schools 

 and Experiment Stations. 



Efforts were also made, by the offer of 

 scholarships and provision for the services of 

 Lecturers in Agricultural Science, to encourage 

 the teaching of Agriculture in the High 

 Schools and Colleges in the West Indies. 



It is hoped by these means to educate, 

 according to his station, the peasant and the 

 planter, and give to each the particular train- 

 ing and knowledge necessary to equip him for 

 the battle of life. 



In the pages of Nature Teaching prepared 

 by Mr. Francis Watts, F.I.C., F.C.S., and 

 now issued as a Text book by the Imperial 

 Department of Agriculture, an attempt is 

 made to place in the hands of Teachers both 

 in Elementary and Secondary schools a well 

 selected, but co-ordinate body of information 

 suitable to West Indian conditions, to be 

 supplemented in each case by numerous illus- 

 trations and experiments in which the pupils 

 themselves take an active part. 



Nature Teaching is not a Reading Book, 

 and it is not desirable that it should be 



