. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW or THK IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. LIB' QA Vol. XI. No. 261, BARBADOS. APRIL 27, 1912. Pbioi Id. CONTENTS. Paob. Page. Aiiricultural Show, Moiit- Plants and Rjidium 141 serrat, 1912 139 Prize-Holdings Competi- Cotton Notes :— tion, Doiiiiiiica, 1912 132 The Worhl's In- Ramie Fibre, Method of 134 Cleaning 136 West Indian Cotton ... 134 School Gardens in Great Department News 135 Britain 137 Departmental Reports ... :5 Seeds, Longevity of 136 Educatio
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW or THK IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. LIB' QA Vol. XI. No. 261, BARBADOS. APRIL 27, 1912. Pbioi Id. CONTENTS. Paob. Page. Aiiricultural Show, Moiit- Plants and Rjidium 141 serrat, 1912 139 Prize-Holdings Competi- Cotton Notes :— tion, Doiiiiiiica, 1912 132 The Worhl's In- Ramie Fibre, Method of 134 Cleaning 136 West Indian Cotton ... 134 School Gardens in Great Department News 135 Britain 137 Departmental Reports ... :5 Seeds, Longevity of 136 Education in Rural Schools 129 Soil, Temperature of. Fungus Notes :— I'nder Different Con- The Panama Disease of ditions 135 Bananas, Part 1[ ... 142 Soils, Hot- Weather Gleanings 140 Ploughing and 131 Insect Notes :— Soy Bean in England. Eel Worms, or Nema- Trials of 137 todes, Part I 138 Students' Corner 141 Leaf Green and the Work Sugar Industry:— of Leaves 137 Tlie New York Sugar Market Reports 144 Trade Laljoi-atory ... J 31 Notes and Comments ... 13« I'ganda, Exjjort Trade of. Plant L:Ll)el'!, Tainting ... 143 1910-11 139 Education in Rural Schools. ilOR some time past, the need has been felt in 'the West Indies tor improvement in the edu- )cational methods employed, in rural schools particularly. The same circumstance has existed in Great Britain, where a stage in progress has been marked recently by the issue of a Memorandum on the Princijjles and Methods of Rural Education, by the Board of Education, England. In England, the dis- tinctions between the circumstances surrounding schools in town and those in the country are much greater than the differences which obtain in the West Indies, where almost all commercial effort is directly connected with agriculture. The same general princi- ples apply nevertheless in both cases, and actually in a broader degree in the West Indies; and it will be well to see in what way several of the matters in the Memorandum mentioned may
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