2 PROCEEDINGS AT BOAED MEETI^^GS. 



cattle are i^urcliased in Scotland every week for consumption in the midland towns in 

 England, and before these can be moved it is necessary that a licence be jDrocured from 

 the toAvn or district into which they are going. The Directors, considering this an 

 unnecessary j^recaution, deemed it expedient to call the attention of the Privy Council 

 to it. 



Gleo Margarine.— a letter was read from Sir Herbert E. Maxwell, M.P., stating 

 that he had given notice of a motion on the large ciuantity of oleo margarine which is 

 now imported into this country and undersells our dairy butter, and stating that it 

 would very much strengthen his hands if those interested would move in the matter. 



The Directors considered that it would be most desirable that a different brand was 

 put upon the casks containing this substance and those containing butter, so as to let 

 the consumer know what he was getting. They thought, however, that at present they 

 should not move in the matter till they saw what steps were taken in consequence of 

 Sir Herbert's motion. 



MEETING OF DIRECTORS, 2nd MARCH 1881. 



Present — Lord Arthur Cecil ; Sir Windham Carmichael Anstruther of Anstnither, 

 Bart. ; Admiral Sir William Edmonstone of Duntreath, Bart. ; Sir James Henry 

 Gibson-Craig of Riccarton, Bart. ; Mr. Cunningham, Tarbreoch ; Mr. Ding^-all, 

 Ramornie ; Mr. Elliot, Blackhaugb ; INIr. Maxtone Graham of Cultoquhey ; Rev. John 

 Gillespie, Mouswald Manse ; Colonel Hare of Calderhall, Philpston House ; Mr. Hope, 

 Duddingston ; Mr, Irvine of Drum ; Mr. Kennedy of Sundaywell, Brandleys ; Mr. 

 Mackenzie of Portmore ; Mr. Murray of Dollerie ; Mr. Mylne, Niddrie Mains ; Mr. 

 Smith, Whittinghame ; Mr. John Tumbull Smith, C.A. ; Mr Walker of Bowland, 

 C.B. ; Major Wauchope of Niddrie-Marischal, Professor Wilson, and Dr Aitken — Mr 

 Smith, Whittinghame, in the chair. 



Mr. F. N. I\Ienzies reported apologies for the absence of Lord Balfour of Burleigh ; 

 Sir Henry J. Seton Steuart of Allanton, Bart. ; Mr. Dickson of Corstorphine ; Colonel 

 Gillon of Wallhouse ; Mr. Eliott Lockhart of Borthwickbrae ; Mr. Puilston, Glamis 

 House ; Mr. Smith, chief magistrate, Kelso. 



Before proceeding to the business on the programme, the following resolutions were 

 unanimously passed : — 



The Late Earl of Seafield. — " That the Directors of the Highland and Agricul- 

 tural Society of Scotland desire to express the sincere regret with which they have 

 received the information of the death of the Right Hon. John Charles, Earl of Seafield, 

 K.T., and their sense of the obligations which the Society owed to him, both as a Vice- 

 President and as Convener of local committees." 



The Late Mr. Smollett of Bonhill. — " That the Directors of the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society of Scotland have to record the deep regret with which they regard 

 the death of Mr. Alexander Smollett of Bonhill — one of their number — and their 

 sense of the valuable assistance which the Society had on many occasions received from 

 him as an Extraordinary Director and Convener of local committees." 



Foot-and-Mouth Disease. — A letter was read from Mr. Peel, in reply to a request 

 from the Directors that the Privy Council would take into consideration the needless 

 delay and trouble that were occasioned by compelling those trucking cattle from Scot- 

 land into England not only to have a licence from the uninfected district in Scotland, 

 but also from the receiving district in England, which might or might not be infected. 

 The letter drew attention to Order in Council (598) of 1881, Regulation C (W. A.), by 

 which the licence from the clean district from which the cattle are sent was to be dis- 

 continued, but the licence from the receiving district still continued. 



The Directors, considering that it would save much time if the licence from the 

 sending district had been continued and the licence from the receiving district discon- 

 tinued, and as fat cattle have deteriorated very considerably in form from this an-ange- 

 ment, instructed the Secretary to wTite again to Mr. Peel, in the hope that the Privy 

 Council will reconsider the matter. He was also instructed to request Mr. Peel to lay- 

 before the Privy Council the necessity for great care being taken that trucks which go 

 from Scotland into England to a diseased district are not loaded with hay, cake, or 

 other food for stock, and returned to Scotland without being properly cleansed and 

 disinfected. 



Kelso Show, 1880. — A letter was read from Sir George H. Scott Douglas of Spring- 

 wood Park, Bart., acknowledging, on the part of the local committee, the vote of 

 thanks accorded to the committee by the general meeting in January last. 



Stirling Show, 1881. — The Secretary reported that the competition of stallions 

 for agricultural purposes for the premium of £100 offered by the Society for the best 



