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Agricultural Education, 



he has picked up the technical part of 

 his subject, and then takes other work 

 elsewhere. Further, as it is not worth 

 the while of a competent assistant to 

 remain on with a view of becoming the 

 head of the department, he accepts the 

 first good place abroad that offers, 

 knowing he will have to go sooner or 

 later. The consequence is, there is not 

 at the colleges any number of promising 

 young men who could be pub into respon- 

 sible posts and trusted to carry out such 

 a scheme as Prof. Middleton recom- 

 mends. 



It is not simply a case of getting a 

 little more money to pay the staff. A 

 farm is always a one-man business, and 

 the farmer cannot understand anything 

 else. The governing body of the agri- 

 cultural college has the same bias ; it 

 recognises the Principal, but not the 

 members of the staff, excepting occasion- 

 ally and collectively. 



There are, however, signs of a change. 

 A movement is already on foot, although 

 little or no reference is made to it in the 

 report before us, for affiliating the agri- 

 cultural colleges to the Universities. If, 

 as we hope, the Universities rise to 

 their responsibility, they will see to 

 it that the teaching at what is virtually 

 their agricultural department is as good 

 as in any other department, and they 

 will know how to secure this end. Our 

 hope for the future lies not so much in 

 the action of the local committees, or 

 even of the Government Boards, helpful 

 though these may be, as in the action of 

 the Universities themselves. As soon as 

 they take the problem in hand matters 

 will be righted, and the supply of young 

 men wanted for such a scheme as Prof. 

 Middleton's, and for the posts that are 

 opening up in the British possessions 

 beyond the seas, will soon be forth- 

 coming. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



LITERATURE OP ECONOMIC 

 BOTANY AND AGRICULTURE. 



By J. 0. Willis. ' 



Rubber Cultivation : 

 Ajrica : — 

 Zimmermann, Sfcatistisches fiber die 

 Kautschuk-pflanzungen in Deutsch 

 Ostafrika. Der Pfl., 1907, p. 321. 

 Exploitation et culture des lianes a 

 Caoutchouc en Afrique Occiden- 

 tale. Journ. d'Agric. trop., June 



1909, p. 172. 



Rubber in Nyassaland, "T. A." Suppl., 

 Aug. 1909, p. 178. 



W. African rubber cultivation, do. 

 p. 190. 



L' Hevea en Afrique Occidentale. 



Journ d'Agri. trop., Nov. 09, p. 323. 

 Rubber cultivation in Uganda. Ind. 



Jl., 7. 3. 10, p. 301. 

 Note sur les Heveas cultives en 



Afrique Occidentale. Journ. dAgri. 



trop., May 1910, p. 130. 



L'Hevea a la cote Occidentale de 

 TAfrique. Bull. Jard Col. June 



1910, p. 422. 



La question de la main-d'oeuvre et le 

 caoutchouc au Congo francais. 

 Nogues. Bull. Ass. PI. Caoutchouc. 

 II. 105. 



Le Caoutchouc a Madagascar, do; 

 110. 



America : — 



Rubber cultivation in Jamaica. W. 



Ind. Bull., 8. 1907, p. 191. 

 Progress of the rubber industry in 



Trinidad, do. p. 195, " T.A." July 



1908, p. 2. 



Rubber in British Guiana, do. p. 200. 

 The present condition of rubber 



culture. Year-book, Rubber P. A. 



Mexico, 1907-8, p. 10, " T,A." Aug. 

 ' 1908, p. 106. 



Rubber cultural prospects in Mexico. 



Ind. Wld. 1. 7, 1001, p. 352. 

 Rubber Expmts. in British Guiana. 



W. I. Bull. Vol. IX. No. 3, p. 254. 

 Rubbers from Trinidad, " T.A." Dec. 



1908, p. 507. 



Rubber at Agricultural Conference. 

 Bull. B, of Agri. Jamaica, Nov. 

 1905, p. 233, 



Rubber in Jamaica a failure. Straits 

 Bull. Feb. 1910, p. 57. 



Olsson-Seffer. The rubber industry 

 of Mexico. Trop. Life, Mar. 1910, 

 p. 50. 



do. The rubber boom and Mexico. 

 Am. Rev. Tr op. Agr. I. 1910, p, 73. 



Asia.— 



Rubber cultivation in Java. " T. A.' 

 Suppl. May 1908, p, 486. 



The soils in the rubber districts of 

 the Malay States, " T.A," Feb. 19U7. 

 p. 38. 



