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Miscellaneous. 



measurement of land, dairying, manual 

 labour, Slojd (joinery and wood work), 

 cookery and gymnastics. Besides these 

 branches of education there are lectures 

 and lessons on history, geography, 

 political economy, book-keeping, &c. The 

 school terms are arranged to suit the 

 convenience of the peasants, and consist 

 of about four months in a year. Both 

 young men and girls are admitted. A 

 high school will have a class for girls 

 during the winter months and a class 

 for young men in the spring. No en- 

 trance examination is held, all appli- 

 cants between the ages of eighteen and 

 twenty-five are admitted. The pupils 

 reside on the premises during the whole 

 term, and the cost of board, lodging, 

 and tuition is very moderate. The educa- 

 tion differs in different schools, and is 

 intended to suit the requirements of the 

 young men and women attending the 

 classes. The pupils are trained by 

 teachers usually of a high standard of 

 competence, who take a just pride in 

 their work. The leading rules of these 

 high schools may be summed up in the 

 following: — "Honour, physical labour, 

 know your trade thoroughly and mind 

 it well, never neglect your intellectual 

 developments." There are at present in 

 Denmark, with its population of only 

 two and a half millions, about a hundred 

 such schools, with an annual attendance 

 of about ten thousand (the actual figures 

 for 1906 were 85 schools with 7,886 pupils). 



Some system of education on the 

 above lines is required in Ceylon, since 

 the peasant cannot afford to waste his 

 time in a long course of education with 

 the object of gleaning a little knowledge 

 suited to his every-day wants, but a 

 training of four or five months (which 

 if he is so disposed, he can repeat for two 

 or three years) should go a great way to 

 educate him as he requires to be educated. 



There is another point that calls for 

 attention in Ceylon, Rice cultivation is 

 the main employment of the villager, 

 but it does not occupy his whole time. 

 He has much enforced leisure, and, until 

 he can find in his own home some re- 

 munerative employment to occupy his 

 spare hours, he will not do full justice to 

 himself, and will have neither the means 

 nor the contented spirit that should 

 help him to progress and increase in 

 prosperity. The present state of affairs 

 can only be remedied by the encourage- 

 ment of minor rural industries suitable 

 to local conditions. 



These are some of the considerations 

 which, I think, should weigh with those 

 who have it in their power to guide the 

 destinies of the Ceylon farmer. 



LITERATURE OP ECONOMIC 

 BOTANY AND AGRICULTURE. 

 XXXV. 



Tea: General— (Contd.) 



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 intorno alio sviluppo del frutto del 

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 1899. 



Tea in South Carolina. Exp. Sta. 



Rec. XI. p. 741. 

 La production et le commerce du 



the en extreme Orient. Bull. Ec. 



Indoch. 1900, p. 480. 

 See Just's Jahresbericht. 

 Suzuki. Thein. Bull. Agr. Coll. Tokio 



1901. See Nature 10. 10. 1901, p. 582. 

 Huile de the. Journ. d' Agr. trop. I,, 



1901, p. 78. 

 Kiefer. Die Thee industrie Indiens 



und Ceylons. Wien 1902. 

 Die Kultur des Thees in Indien. Tro- 



penpfl. 1903, p. 350. 

 Geschiednis van de Gouvernements 



Thee cultuur op Java. Ind. Merc 



Nov. 1904, p. 757. 

 Tea in Java. Bamber and Kingsford. 



" T.A." Nov. 1904, p. 310. 

 Formosa teas, do, do. p. 322. 

 Tea in Japan, do. do. p. 329. 

 Formosa tea development. Ind. 



Plant. 6. 1. 1906, p. 5. 

 Compton. The leading teas of the 



world. Ind. Plant. 26. 5. 1906, p. 364. 

 Ceylon's Import duty on tea. do 



June 1906, p. 447. 

 La propagation asexuee du theier. 



Journ. d' Agr. trop. Dec. 1905, p. 360. 

 The leading teas of the world. India. 



"T.A." 1906, pp. 150, 483. 

 Our excessive tea crop. " T.A." Mar. 



1906, p. 168. 



Sorting and grading of teas for the 

 Colombo market, do. Feb. 1906, 

 p. 52. 



British grown tea at home and 

 abroad, do. Jan. 1906, p. 836. 



Tea culture in Japan. F. O, Report 

 637, 1905, 



Scheikundige bestauddeeleu van het 

 theeblad. Ind. Mere. 30. 4. 1907, p. 

 283. 



Tea culture in Japan. " T.A." Feb. 



1907, p. 79, 



The leading teas of the world : China. 



"T.A." May 1907, p. 289. 

 Ceylon's import duty on tea. 



"T.A." Mar. 1907, p. 148, 

 The Brick tea trade of Thibet. 



"T.A." Nov. 1905, p. 092. 

 Consumption of tea in the world. 



do. p. 694. 

 The tea trade of China, do. p. 694. 

 Tea cultivation in Japan, do. Dec. 



1905, p, 773. 



