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(6) The Curator to distribute to schools plants that can be furnished 
from the Botanical Station. 
(c) Every boys’ school to have attached to it a piece of land, and four 
hours a week to be devoted to its cultivation. The area of the land 
to be 3 acres to every twenty-five boys attending the school, on an 
average ; the ground to be planted with cocoa, coffee, rubber, fibre, 
&c., with native food crops between the rows. The master of each 
school to keep a diary ot the work done each week. 
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(e) An annual prize to be offered to boys of the school which has the 
best farm in any district. 
(7) A course of instruction both practical and theoretical for teachers to 
be instituted at the Botanical Station, and the Missionary Societies 
to be invited to send teachers to go through this course. Teachers 
who have qualified in this manner to receive 10 per cent. of the 
grant given to their schools for agricultural work. 
(g) A certain number of schools to be selected for meteorological 
observatories and to be furnished with rain gauges, the observation 
to be recorded by the schoolmasters, and to be communicated to 
the Curator of the Botanical Station. 
His Excellency’s minute attached to the paper was— 
“T concur in recommendations (a) and (0), and I wish the Acting Curator 
to give effect to them with the least possible delay. Application for plants 
should be made by the Director of Eduction for the schools which it is decided, 
in the manner suggested below, should have farms.” 
Mr. Johnson concludes his very interesting report with a few words on the 
teaching of agriculture in the Gold Coast schools. He says :—‘It appears to 
me that the agricultural industries of the colony might be materially improved 
and extended by causing the elements of agriculture to be taught as a specific 
‘subject in the assisted schools, and encouraging the formation of plantations 
worked in a systematic manner by the pupils. The advantages accruing from 
work of this kind, inculeated upon the young minds, would no doubt encourage 
some of them to take up planting as a means of earning a livelihood. At the 
present time the lads upon leaving school seem possessed of one ambition— 
viz., to become clerks; but, as the supply exceeds the demand, numbers become 
mere loafers. Plantations, of a kind, already exist in connection with some of 
the schools, in which the grant offered by the Government for industrial work 
is earned by the scholars., My various tours this year afforded me opportunities 
for visiting a number of these plantations, and I must confess the efforts were 
in most cases very futile, the system of work poor, and the crops meagre ; yet I 
learn, from a list kindly furnished me by the Director of Education, that the 
grants earned by these schools varied from 25s. to £42 in 1899. It is very 
evident that unless the teachers are themselves instructed they cannot instruct 
their pupils. In some of the West Indian Islands the school teachers are given 
lectures and practical instruction in agriculture, and I feel convinced that if 
some such scheme was introduced into this colony the school plantations might 
be converted into useful training grounds for the scholars and serve as object 
lessons to planters.” 
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DROUGHT-RESISTING- MACARONI WHEAT. 
The United States Department of Agriculture has just announced one of 
the most valuable discoveries of recent years. It is the introduction of the 
drought-resisting macaroni wheat, imported from the Volga region of East 
Russia. This wheat is adapted to semi-arid districts, and can be profitably 
grown in the great plain regions of the United States far beyond the one 
