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think, therefore, that having these advantages, the estimate 
of cost which Mr. Hamel Smith has quoted with regard to 
Ceylon will be very much less in our case. As a matter of 
fact, I think that if the salaries of two research workers be 
provided, we shall have enough to go on with for the next 
five years. As to the question of education, I may say that 
in 1900 we introduced agricultural instruction into the primary 
schools of the colony. In. two years or thereabouts we trained 
200 teachers, and in about another year or so agriculture was 
made a compulsory subject for children of a certain age in all 
schools. School gardens are attached to the schools, in which 
a certain amount of agricultural instruction and practice is 
given to the elder students of the schools. In association 
with all this we have school shows once a year, at which prizes 
are given for the best vegetables, or whatever it may be, that 
are grown on these school plots. We have also provided a 
system of home reading courses, by which persons who are 
already employed in agriculture, on estates or otherwise, may 
receive instruction by correspondence to supplement the know- 
ledge which they obtain in practice every day. That is a three 
years’ course, and it is working out very satisfactorily. About 
ten years ago we introduced higher agricultural education 
into the colleges, and some sixty students are examined 
every year by the Cambridge local authorities in agriculture. 
The examination papers are purposely set so as to be suit- 
able for tropical students. You will see, then, that in Trinidad 
we have done a great deal of the work that an agricultural 
college is expected to do, and I sincerely hope that within 
the next five years we shall be provided with sufficient funds 
to add the two scientific men whom we would employ solely 
on research. There is one point which was referred to by 
Mr. Lyne to-day to which I would like particularly to draw 
attention, and that is this. He said he was of opinion that it 
was impossible to make any improvement in the methods of 
the adult labourer. Well, I think in the West Indies we have 
accomplished an improvement in two or three of the islands. 
It was started many years ago in Jamaica and in Grenada, 
where a scheme of competition amongst peasant proprietors 
was established, and prizes given to those who were most 
successful in their work. In Trinidad we adopted that system 
about three years ago, and I can assure Mr. Lyne that the work 
has been most successful. In the first year’s competition 
(which was unfortunately limited to two districts, as we have 
not more than two agricultural instructors) there were about 
300 competitors, and instruction was viven on the holdings 
of each competitor by the instructors, who were the best 
cocoa planters we could obtain on the island. They go there 
