ESCUELA.'AGRÍCOLA PANAMERICANA • TEGUC1GALPA H O N D.Ü RAS

M01ÍIHLY NEWS LETTER , ' v- . : •• .. \R 1950. Wiien the. United Fruit Company establishe'd ^his school it liad in mind two objectives, first, the.training oí sound agriculturists, and second, stimulation of ^ntorest throughout trop'ical America in the praetical sort of education it was propased .to impart hero, In our January News Letter :we mentioned 'that the Ifovernment of Ecuador was plannitig to establish a vocational schoól of tropical agriculture at Daule , near Guayaquil, and had sent ing. Absalóh '^ola Barcia here tÓ study our program and physical plant» "We llave 'now received a request from HermosillOj Sonora, Me^&oo, where a similar project is under consido rat ion» "í/e aro advised", writes Sr J, .R. Fernández, ^that wo might wáll'take your schoól as th'e model for our

Th& big evont of tUe moñth was the filling of our two silos. This occupied the second and thlrd year boys for a full weok» The: f ir.st silo was f i^led with sorghum obtained from Costa Rica, which was not véry sweet, plus a good porcontage of pigeon pea tops; the second with a mixture of Guatemala grass (Tri>psacum latifolium) , -pigeon pea tops and sugar cane^ . •• .• x , . The mango season has just about come to a^n GH¿, The following varieties were in production this year:, Amini? Aroemanis3 Carabao, GadboSLg, 'Goletó» Haden, Julie, Madoo and Mulgoba*. Sinco t/he students have acquired rather extorísive field experience in sampling mangos (though not always under the most favorable ccrnditions) the class in horticulture \vas asiced t/o vote upon^the respective merits of these varietios, They were told in advance that they shóuld vote for the variety they would choose if thoy could only have one mango tree^ and the fruit was not to bo put on tho market but was for their personal consumption» There were 38 votes in favor of Haden, 5 in favor of Julie , 4 in favor of iviulgoba and 2 in favor of Amini, No ono was much improssed by any of the four varieties from Java: ArQemanisr Ga.cU>0BSi Golok and Madoo. Sinco tho big problem in mango culture at this particular place is control of flies of the genus Anas t repha s tho larvae of vjliich coriimonly infost the fruit, students were asked if thoy had found"any varae^y practically free from these lar va et ' All agreed that Julio showed vory slight infestation, and that the worst is Haden» Wo suspect that ono or two other varioties may have been as badly infested as Haden? but the boys* attention was callad to the latter because there wore so many more fruit s produced and examined» There wore rolatively few visitors during the month. Mr John K Olyphant Jr. , of Mew Tork; brouglit his family here on the 5th for an overnight stay, Mr-. Olyphant ' is a meanb'er of the Board of Directors of the United Fruit Company* The Ambassador "_ Israel t o Central America, Hon. Moshd Tov, carne on the 7th, accompanied by Mrs Tov the Cónsul of Israel in Togucigalpa, MT« Jacobo Wezenblut-, Wo were groatly interested in discussing with Ambassador Tov the possibility of our cooperating in,, the horticultura! development of Israel through sending propagating material of our new hybrid avocados from México, On tho 12th we were happy to recoive Mr. Claud L. Horn of the Office of Foroign Agricultural Rolations, U. S. Department of jagriculturet with whcra. wo discussod ¡aany of our horticultural problema t On the 24th we were visitoci by Messrs Martin Gonnelly and J« K* Siraras of tho General Officeg United Fruit Oompany*