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given to instruction and practice in agricultural operations in the field. The 

 student should be practically taught the nature and requirements of crops 

 commonly cultivated in the colony and the best means of dealing with them. 

 They should be practically instructed in. and learn to carry out the methods 

 of preparing the soil, the selecting and planting of the seed and the reaping 

 and curing of the mature crop. They should also be practically instructed in 

 budding, grafting, pruning, and kindred operations. Some practical instruc- 

 tion in horticulture should also be given. 



43. In the instruction given to the students of the training colleges par- 

 ticular attention should be directed to offering them information calculated to 

 be useful to them in their capabilities as teachers in Elementary Schools, and 

 further, great care should be given so to instruct them in the methods of 

 teaching agricultural subjects that they may be able to turn their acquired 

 knowledge to the best possible advantage when instructing pupils in the Ele- 

 mentary Schools. 



44. This instruction may be given best in the final year of the stu- 

 dents' training and for this purpose these students should speud one day a 

 week at the Experiment Station, spending the whole working day there. This 

 may be readily arranged after consulting with those in charge of the Training 

 Colleges, and it does not appear necessary at this point to enter more particu- 

 larly into details, the outline we have given serving to indicate the general 

 scope of the teaching and the time which should be devoted to it. Some con- 

 tribution towards the expenses of this work should be made on the part of the 

 Training Colleges. 



45. In addition to the courses of instruction already suggested, short 

 courses on special subjects of local interest and importance may be arranged 

 with advantage. In this maimer from time to time lectures and demonstra- 

 tions might be given on the methods of growing, curing and manufacturing 

 such products of Coffee, Cocoa, Sugar, Bananas, Orange, Fibres and Indian 

 Rubber. These courses should be, more or less, of a technical character cal- 

 culated to afford information to men already engaged in, or about to engage 

 in, industries connected with these subjects. 



46. We are instructed to suggest methods whereby instruction in agri- 

 culture may be given to boys of the peasant class who may be able to afford 

 to pay small sums for the instruction which they receive. 



47. It appears to us that the first requirement for the proper performance 

 of this duty will be some provision whereby boys under training may reside 

 near the Station. If buildings are provided for this purpose, we would pur- 

 pose that what may perhaps be called an Elementary School for Agricultural 

 Training may be formed upon the following lines: — 



48. A fixed number of boys whose ages may be from 14 to 16 years should 

 be received into the School, and some care and control should be exercised in 

 the manner of their admission. Proper forms of application for admission 

 should be drawn up, and these applications should be signed by some person 

 of standing, such as the Custos for the Parish of the applicant It would be 

 well that the Resident Magistrates should not sign these applications lest there 

 should arise some confusion in the minds of the peasantry between this school 

 and the Industrial School to which the Magistrates have power to commit chil- 

 dren. These applications should be considered by the Station Board, and 

 candidates carefully chosen to fill any vacancies existing in the School. 



49. A Superintendent will be required for the School, together with a 

 sufficient number of assistants to preserve discipline and order, not less than 

 one assistant to every 12 or 15 boys will be necessary. 



50. The instruction to be given to these boys must largely consist in 

 training them in the art of husbandry in different branches ; they should be 

 taught as fully as possible how all the various cultural operations of a farm 

 or estate are conducted ; they should learn to till the soil and to prepare it 

 for various crops ; to plant, tend and reap these crops, to bud, graft and 



