848 Occupations of agricultural Students, [jam;-; 



Many living mites were found on the bushes sprayed with 

 quassia and soft soap, though the bushes were sprayed as 

 thoroughly as possible. On May 25th slight scorching was 

 seen on the young leaves of the bushes treated with lime and 

 sulphur. A microscopical examination of big buds from 

 treated bushes and those from control bushes showed but little 

 difference. In each case swarms of mites could be seen at 

 the opening of the buds. Though many of the big buds had 

 dried up there were still plenty from which an active migra- 

 tion was going on. 



On June 16th the scorching of the leaves on the 

 "sulphured" bushes was more marked. All the big buds 

 were dried up, but mites were found in the young buds just 

 forming. 



On November 4th the plantation was examined as the owner 

 was grubbing the bushes. Sample twigs were taken from the 

 various rows and submitted to microscopical examination. 

 This was necessary, as in November all the buds that contain 

 mites have not yet become "big." 



The samples were taken quite indiscriminately, and repre- 

 sented a fair average of the buds. The big buds in each 

 sample were counted with the following results. 



Percentage 



Big Normal of Big 



Bud. Bud. Bud. 



Control 68 102 667 



Lime and sulphur ... 76 167 45 "5 



Quassia and soft soap ... 69 135 51-1 



The sample from those bushes treated with soft soap only 

 were not counted, as they were obviously no better than the 

 control. Thus the lime and sulphur treatment reduced the 

 amount of disease to two-thirds of the untreated, and the 

 quassia and soft soap to four-fifths. 



Questions are sometimes asked as to the parentage of the 

 agricultural student, and as to what becomes of the student 

 himself. The Board's Report on the 



Occupations of Distribution of Grants for Agricultural 

 Agricultural Students ^ , , . , 



after leaving College. Education in 1910-11 furnishes some 

 interesting particulars on this point. 

 The Institutions which are aided by the Board were asked 

 to supply information showing the occupation of the parents 



