Feb. I, 1894.] THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST. 
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and other art oraftscnen, aad he thought that what 
he was now recommending to them was the course 
they should adopt in the studies wbi ih thay should 
take up there. Mr. R, V. Otiiaholm. Follow o£ the 
Royal lu titute of British Arcbibeots, lately a hig h offi- 
oial undsr the Indian Government, wrote some time 
ago admirabla notes on technioal instruction in 
IndU addressed to the Uaekwar of Baroda, an 
enterprising native potentate whose prosecution 
of public works had been marked with immense 
liberality. He V70uli reoommend that a oopy of 
this pamphlet should be procure i. Mr. Chiaholm'a 
view was that some as teaohers skille I workmen 
should be obtaiued from Europe every year for 
six months and he placed them in the following 
order.:— (1) oarpeatec sad joiner, (2) painter aod 
glazier, (3) deooirator, (4) stone Oirver, and (5) 
p'umber, and be advised that they should be 
followed by the higher artizans, (6) putting foreman, 
(7) superior house deoorator, (8) glass-blower. 
He commended that view to everyone who was 
interested in the suocess of this institution. The 
hon. gentleman then proceeded to say that this was 
the ilrat occasion he had koo^a of any educational 
(unction parsing off without mention of the ad- 
vantaged of what was known as the physical 
eduoation of the Oeylon youth and he hoped it 
augured well (or the.r future aaifor their roquire- 
menta of technical knowledge. He rafbrred to 
CRICKET, FOOTBALL AND TENNIS. 
He had no desire to speak disparagingly of any 
of these gamSd, far from it, but this he did not 
hesitate to state, that the Oeylon yoUth was too 
much given to these gimes, and one had only to 
pass by any of the open public squares or public 
spaces in Colombo to see cricket engaging the aiten- 
tion of the Ceylon Youth from seven o'clock in the 
morning till sunset. (Laughter and a voice: "What 
about Golf ?"). He had been asked "what about 
Golf ?" and he could do himself there. Ha 
admitted that he was an enthusiaatio golfer. 
Golf, however, was not a game ; it was a scientific 
pastime (Great laughter).' 
He remembered well that dne soldier Ool. 
Boyes who commanded that magnificent regiment, 
the Gordon Highlanders, in Oeylon, and who was 
an enthusiastic golfer, reprimanding a friend 
who was rather a saofifer at the Royal and 
Ancient Art of Golf, telling him that GoH was 
NOT A GA.ME BUT AN ART, 
and as much an art aa painting a picture or com- 
posing a poem. (Laughter). He could say to the 
students that any one of them at the end of 
six months' praotica would find it easitr 
to take the engine there to pieces' and 
put it together again than make a good round 
of Golf after th ee yeara' practice. Ha would 
not detain them any longer — he thought he had 
taken up too much of their time already — but he 
would give the students one piece of advice and 
that was to be accurate, 
ACCUR4CX 
v/a,3 the first principle of technical knowledge. It 
wis wise to distrust that which seemed most 
probable to take uotuiag for granted. In the 
luiUers of detail tba whole secret of the world 
really Uy. Lu them look to the details and the 
larger matters would generally take care of theji- 
selves. Let tlmn be diligent anl obedient to the 
Principal of iha Institution, and endeavour to be 
wisa a'ld active. The wise and the active con- 
quer ditliju. io < by datin>i; to attempt tham ; fo ly 
and alula siiivor and shrink at the sight of 
toil aod trouble and mike the impossibilities (bey 
isar. (Loud applause ) 
Mr. Ferguson Editor " Ceylon Observer." 
Mr. J. FERGD30N said that while it gave him 
much pleasure to be present at eg interesting a ' 
function, still he felt he had been specially in- 
vited as a witness to the compact or understanding 
that day entered into between the Heads of 
Departments and other official and unotlioial 
leaders on the one side and the Principal of the 
Technical Institute on the other. The D. rector 
of Public iDsttilotion knew how careful they were 
to record facts and figures in Baillie Street, and 
so he and his lieutenant, Mr. Human, shrewdly 
felt that it would be well to have a referee in 
future years to testify to the covenant that day, 
entered into. But while he (Mr. F.) was ready'" 
to make this record, he could not but feel' 
a personal interest in the iaauguration of Technical ' 
luslruotion in Ceylon : indeed in one department ' 
he claimed to be a worker in the field ; for 
since Ceylon supplied the world with the finest 
cinnamon, coconut oil, cocoa, tea, and in its dty,' 
coffee, it had rightly got the highest reputation 
as a pladiation colony, and recognizing this fact ' 
he, thirteen yeara ago, had started what might 
be called ' a monthly TeoliQieal lostruotor or " 
Compilation in Tropical Agriculture, now repre- 
sented by a dozen gobdly volumes. Five years ago, 
the Teohnioal School of Agriculture came into 
existence, and its Magazine followed, und was 
incorporated with ita predecessor, so that the ' 
work of Mr. Drieberg and himself went' 
circling round the sub-tropical world, month 
by month. This carried the name and repatation 
of Oeylon far and near, aa was shown 
when the head of the Agricultural Depart- 
ment in Washington told him in 1884, with- 
out knowing that he was iuteresied, how 
the Ceylon peiiodical was valued in his' 
reference library and carefully filed month ' 
by month. Now he had mentioned this simply to 
indicate a possible prospect before Mr. Human and' 
his School : after a time, possibly a '• Taohnical 
Instructor" Magazine would appear and if it dealt ' 
with the very interesting indigenous bandioratta 
mentioned by the Direutor of Public Works, in 
their present or original mode of 'working and then 
after the application of Western Science, that alone 
would make the magazine of interest far beyond the 
bounds of Ceylon. But whether suoh a puoliaation '< 
appeared or not, of one thing he was quite sure :' ' 
that Mr. Human's pupils, after supplying press- ' 
ing local requirements at first, would very i 
soon begin to look beyond the island for a field for ' 
advancement. Already young Ceylonese were doing ' 
good work in the countries all round them, some < 
getting as far as South Africi and America ; and 
moat certainly youn^ men trained to a handicraft, 
as Mr. Human'would have lada of the right stamp '' 
trained, c JuM li>ok the whole world in the face and go 
anywhere. With so many of the island's sons going 
oat in this and other ways, a favourite toast in 
Ueylon wouid s lou bi the old Jacobite one of 
" Over the water." Of course, there were drawbacks 
to young men in beginning tecbuioal work here ; 
one had been referred to in the tradiiioa ul 
indolence which appertained to the people atd 
island. But other countries had their adversa 
traditions, for instance on the Borders of Scotland, 
the ancestors pos ibly of His Excellency the Lieut.- 
Governor, otrtaiuly of himself (the speaker), were 
11 thieves and robbers : 
" They stolo li be.'vuf thut muda their broth, 
From Eiiulaiid and from Sootlaud botb."' 
(Liughtar). Fonuaaiuly in his owa case, his 
forbeirj had mjvolalong timo ago to the Iligh- 
laii la where there waa little or nothing to steal 
and BO they had to go to work. Wliat he 
