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his training will have to be on a little higher level. But what 
is mostly occupying our minds to-day is the higher training 
in tropical agriculture, and that, I think, is what we under- 
stand by that term here in this country. Now I do not pro- 
pose to-day to enter into any discussion, or to say anything 
with regard to the rival claims of the East (which in this 
matter of a tropical agricultural college is principally repre- 
sented, I think, by Ceylon) and of the West Indies. Our 
President to-day in his address, as I say, really put the matter 
in its proper perspective, which amounted to this: We have 
to consider not only the interests of Ceylon, or of the West 
Indies, or of any other country, but the interests of the student 
who goes out from this country, or from Europe, and we have 
to decide where he is likely to get the best education in 
tropical agriculture; and, of course, when you have to deal 
with young men of tender years, you must also consider the 
question of health. We in Ceylon are quite content to leave 
the matter there, and we are quite certain that when we con- 
sider the variety of products which are grown in Ceylon, not 
merely in experiment stations, but by practical men running 
their plantations on a business footing and making money out 
of them, there is no country in the world with the advantages 
that Ceylon can offer. Then you have also to consider the 
matter of transport. Transport in some countries, especially 
for instance in Africa, is slow and laborious. In the West 
Indies you have the disadvantage of the islands being separated 
by wide seas. Now Professor Dunstan referred to Peradeniya 
this morning, and Peradeniya, which is the projected site of 
the College of Agriculture in Ceylon, is in the centre of the 
planting industry there. There is no plantation in Ceylon for 
rubber, or tea, or cocoa, or coconuts, or citronella, or any- 
thing. else, which cannot be reached in one day from Pera- 
deniya. I do not know whether you can say so much as that 
of any other part of the world. Mr. Hamel Smith, I think, 
referred to the West Indies as possessing a large and compre- 
hensive variety of products cultivated on a plantation scale, 
but I do not think that the West Indies can compare with 
Ceylon in this respect. There is no tea there, for example, 
and I do not think their rubber industry, at any rate yet, has 
reached the practical, progressive, and successful stage which 
it has in the East. As far as fertility of soil goes, I do not 
know whether we could not quote figures to show that we 
in the East can produce crops equal to those of the West 
Indies. Now, gentlemen, I should like just to mention to 
you one or two points which have occurred to me in consider- 
ing this question of a College of Tropical Agriculture. In 
Ceylon we have our plans prepared, we have our site selected, 
