July, 1908.] 



:>1 



Miscellaneous. 



Production et consommation mon- 



diales da caoutchouc. Bull. Econ. 



Indoch. 8. p. 735. 

 Appareils de mesure, employes pour 



la fabrication de caoutchouc. Le 



Mou. de Caout. Mar. 1906, p. 370. 

 Rubber prices and other notes. Str. 



Bull. July 1901, p. 272. 

 Substitute for rubber (Synantherea 



sp.) Ind. Gard. 9. 8. 1900, p. 96. 

 Imports and exports of raw rubber, 



United Kingdom. Ind. R. Journ. 



July 1906, p. 78. 

 Annual review of the Indiarubber 



market, 1906. " T, A." Feb. 1907, 



p. 57. 



Warburg. Was lehrt uns die Statis- 



tik des Rautschuks? Tropenpfl. 



1907, p. 65. 

 Exports and imports of raw rubber 



into the United Kingdom Ind, R. 



Journ. 15. 7. 1907, p. 87. 

 The crude rubber field. Ind. R. 



World, Aug. 1907, p. 337. 

 Rubber interests in Europe, do. 



p. 350. 



An apparatus for testing unmanu- 

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1907, p. 201. 



Methods of analysis of raw rubber. 



Journ. L'pool Univer. I. C. R. 1907. 

 The art of vulcanisation. Ind. R. 



World, Mar. 1904, p. 187. 

 The action of chalk in vulcanised 



rubber. Ind. R. Journ. Aug. 1906, 



p. 246. 



The influence of time in cold vulcan- 

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The testing of* raw rubber, do. p. 283. 



Vulcanising freshly coagulated latex. 



do. Oct. 1906, p. 405. 

 Report on a visit to Great Britain to 



investigate the rubber industry. 



Burgess. Str. Bull. " T.A." Aug. 



1906. p. 131, Sept. p. 209. 

 A revolution in the rubber trade 



(direct export of latex to Europe). 



"T.A." Feb. 1906, p. 12. 

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"T.A." Oct. 1906, p. 281. 

 Rubber sale system at Antwerp. 



"T.A." Nov. 1905, p. 664. 



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The price of rubber. "T.A." May 



1908, p. 411. 



SCHOOL GARDENS. 



In dealing with the subject of Agricul- 

 tural Education at the recent Con- 

 ference, special attention was drawn to 

 the progress made in establishing School 

 Gardens in connection with elementary 

 schools in the West Indies and British 

 Guiana. It was mentioned that at 

 Jamaica, fair progress was being made 

 in this direction. In 1900, only six 

 schools received special grants amount- 

 ing to £32. In 1906, the number of 

 schools had increased to ninety-two, and 

 the special grants to £227. 



At British Guiana, three Government 

 school gardens had been established at 

 Georgetown. In addition, it was re- 

 ported that the managers and teachers 

 of over fifty schools had started small 

 gardens in the country districts. These 

 latter are stated to be earning about 80 

 per cent, of the small grant offered under 

 the Code Regulations. 



In Trinidad duriug the last year 203 

 schools were examined in practical agri- 

 culture. Steady progress is reported 

 from all parts of the island. The forma- 

 tion of school gardens is stated to be 

 hiudered by the want of suitable land, 

 and by other difficulties. Five horticul- 

 tural school-shows are annually held in 

 Trinidad and Tobago. 



At Grenada, agricultural education in 

 elementary schools appears to have 

 declined during the last two years, and 

 nothing worth mentioning is being done 

 at present with school gardens. Matters 

 are practically at a standstill also in the 

 elementary schools at St. Vincent. 

 Moderate progress is reported from St, 

 Lucia. 



At Barbados, forty-one boys ' schools 

 and three girls ' schools presented 

 children at the annual examinations in 

 object-lessons. About one-third of these 

 had school gardens or showed plants 

 under cultivation in pots or boxes. It 

 is stated that the school gardens are 

 decidedly better managed than before, 

 and the number has increased to twenty- 

 one. The school exhibits at the Peasant 

 Exhibitions reached a higher standard. 



At Montserrat, five school gardens have 

 been started, and it is reported that very 

 good results have been obtained in the 

 cultivation of various kinds of vege- 

 tables. Theoretical instruction is also 

 given in school hours. 



At Antigua, efforts have been fairly 

 successful in introducing and encour- 

 aging the teaching of agriculture and the 

 formation of school gardens. So far, 



