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436. Practicaldemonstrations and lectures are regularly delivered 
in certain districts by the officers of the Botanical Department. 
These include such important points as the cultivation and pre- 
paration for market of coffee, cacao, oranges, kola, and grapes, the 
methods of dealing with various kinds of soils by digging, 
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The Botanical Department issues a monthly Bulletin 
dealing with E ga nd horticultural subjects of local 
interest, and gives hints with regard to the treatment of insect 
and fung oid ee s of plants, and the cultivation and curing 
of all aa products likely to be suited to the island. 
Further, an industrial school is attached to the Hope Gardens, 
where the boys ae school for two hours, daily, and at other 
m the i i 
Apprentices from Lagos were lately trained at Jamaica for service 
on the West Coast of i ese are now engaged in 
agricultural work in their own country 
437. There is also the question of ie agricultural education 
necessary to instruct those who may afterwards 
and proprietors of estates and fit them for availing themselves of 
the results of modern advances in improving local agriculture 
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and instructors attached to the present bigh schools and colleges, 
where scientific agriculture could be systematically taught in 
conjunction with field work and experiments. Referring to this 
subject the Headmaster of the High School in Jamaica writes as 
follows i in the Journal of the Agr tains ‘al Society for May 1597 :— 
have endeavoured to show that whatever else it may, or may 
oe e wise to do, the primary and the greatest need is the 
sa “ introduction of the scientific methods of modern agriculture 
nto Jamaica. At present, whenever a Jamaica proprietor 
5 wishes es to improve his adiivanian and the method of handling 
n “ almost any product, he has to get his agents from ab , anc 
et, in face of this, surprise is expressed that the intelligent 
os i eia y turns away from agriculture. e has at 
s present no ae ee of being trained to become valuable, of 
“ be eing fitted to fill the most useful and best-paid posts, or of 
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“ t country is poor; we cannot re to a wd shoal ¢ say ‘ ‘the 
“ truth is just the other way ; it has become absolutely necessary 
“ ‘to our progress; the truth is we cannot afford not to do it, not 
