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A system has been recommended in Belgium whereby the 
adult natives would be compelled to plant a given number of 
trees and provide for their upkeep, the crops belonging to the 
natives. This system is called by some people forced labour ; 
others are of opinion that it would rapidly improve the con- 
dition of the natives. 
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN THE GOLD COAST. 
By W. H. PatTErson. 
Government Entomologist, Gold Coast Colony. 
{No abstract supplied by the author. ] 
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN THE PUNJAB. 
By J. Ht. Barnes, B.S, PLC, F.G.8 
Principal of the Punjab Agricultural College and Agricultural 
Chemist to the Punjab Government. 
[No abstract supplied by the author. ] 
| Discussion. ] 
The Presipent: I would ask you, before proceeding to 
discuss these papers, to give your thanks to the authors—to 
Dr. Gough for having read Mr. Dudgeon’s paper; to Dr. 
Manetti for reading Dr. Gioli’s paper; and lastly, to Mr. 
Hamel Smith. These have been very interesting communi- 
cations. Mr. Dudgeon discusses in detail the necessity of the 
establishment of an agricultural college in the tropics, and no 
one can speak with greater authority or larger experience. 
.Mr. Dudgeon, as many of you are aware, was originally a 
planter in India. He then took up the study of tropical 
agriculture in Egypt, Ceylon, and the United States. He was 
next appointed Inspector of Agriculture in British West 
Africa, where he made every year tours of inspection and 
produced some valuable reports to the Colonial Office, and he 
now occupies the very important position of Consulting 
Agriculturist to the Government of Egypt. With regard to 
Dr. Gioli’s paper, though I am afraid some of us were not 
able to follow it with that completeness we desired, owing to 
