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Indies has its attention largely directed towards agricultural developments of 

 the nature of those we are advocating, but the operations of this Department 

 have not been extended to Jamaica beyond the offer of an annual grant for 

 providing an Agricultural Instructor and for small Agricultural Scholarships. 

 We feel most strongly that providing an Agricultural Instructor without some 

 such basis of practical work and teaching as we propose will prove an ineffi- 

 cient means of dealing with the agricultural problems now confronting us. 

 This view we were enabled to lay before Dr. Morris during our visit to Bar- 

 bados, and to point out to him the desirability of utilising any grant of officers 

 or of money in connection with some such organized method of working as 

 we now put forward, a view in which he concurred. 



26. Seeing that the Imperial Department of Agriculture has already prof- 

 fered assistance in agricultural teaching, we suggest that it should be ap- 

 pealed to for help on a broader basis, namely to provide the services of the 

 additional men required for carrying these plans into effect. To put this in a 

 definite form we think that a request might be made for £300 a year for an 

 assistant chemist. £200 towards providing for an Assistant to Director Pub- 

 lic Gardens and Plantations, and £150 to provide for the services of other 

 lecturers and instructors, thus making an appeal for an annual grant of £650 

 instead of the X'HoO which is offered for agricultural instruction in another 

 way. 



27. The Imperial Department in addition to providing an instructor, pro- 

 posed to offer scholarships to assist pupils in attaining instruction: these 

 scholarships we believe, would be extended to the amplified form of agricul- 

 tural instruction provided for by these plans. We have not included them 

 in the sum of £650 here referred to for services of assistants and instructors; 



28. The boys of the Industrial Schools may be employed to advantage 

 in carrying on the cultural operations of the Station: this work will form the 

 best means of training them to perform agricultural work of a practical kind, 

 and as all the various crops raised will require to be grown with the greatest 

 care and with specific objects in view, their training would be eminently 

 practical and thorough. Beyond the mere tilling of the soil the boys would 

 have the duty, under proper supervision, of reaping and handling all the 

 crops grown on the station including such crops as Yams. Potatoes. Corn. 

 Sugar-cane. Tobacco. Coffee, .Oranges and Cocoa. 



29. To give effect to this some changes will be necessary in the present 

 Industrial School and Reformatory. As now existing there is the Reforma- 

 tory at Stony Hill and the Industrial School at Stony Hill — these two 

 Institutions being amalgamated and worked together, and also the 

 Industrial School at Hope. There appears to be very little difference 

 or distincion at present between the Industrial School and the Refor- 

 matory, except that only boys classed as belonging to the Industrial 

 School were sent to Hope. The establishment of the two arose we under- 

 stand, from a desire to separate those boys who are placed in a Reformatory 

 in consequence of having committed some offence which renders them liable 

 to be committed to prison, from those boys who are under no proper control, 

 waifs and strays or destitute, but who have no stigma of crime attached to 

 them, and are in consequence sent to the Industrial School. As matters now 

 stand, it does not appear that at Stony Hill any difference in treatment or any 

 distinction is made save in name only. The two classes of boys are not 

 separated in the. Stony Hill institution nor is there any difference in their 

 training or treatment. 



30. Under these circumstances it seems to us desirable to abolish this 

 distinction and to have one institution to be called an Industrial School, to 

 which should be committed juvenile offenders and vagabonds. But in order 

 to prevent the ill -effects which would arise from the presence in the school of 

 hoys of decided criminal tendency, likely to interfere with the well-being of 

 the school while they derive little benefit from its influence themselves, pro- 

 vision should be made whereby boys of this kind may be committed, either at 

 first or later, to a prison for juvenile offenders. 



