32 PKOCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS. 



Highland Industkies and Fisheries. 



Sir James Gibson Craig, Bart., chairman of the Committee on Highland 

 Industries and Fisheries, intimated that the following prizes would be offered on the 

 occasion of the Glasgow Show : — 



Section £ £ £ 



1. Best collection of inland fishing tackle, . . . . 10 5 3 



2. Best collection of kippered and preserved salmon, . . 10 5 3 



3. Best method of sending salmon and trout fresh to 



southern markets,. ....... 520 



4. Best method of transporting live fry or young fish, . 5 2 



£50 



The report was unanimously approved of. 



Agricultural Education. 



The Rev. John Gillespie, Mouswald, said, in the absence of Mr Mackenzie of 

 Portmore, the convener of the Committee on Agricultural Education, he had to make 

 a verbal report. Immediately after the meeting held in that room twelve months 

 ago, it was resolved by the Board to approach Government with the view of asking a 

 liberal subsidy for higher agricultural education. Arrangements had been completed 

 for the reception of a deputation by the Government when a change in the office of 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer took place, and Mr Goschen was so fully engaged in 

 work connected with the preparation of the Budget that he could not receive the 

 deputation at the time they should have gone up. That practically put the matter 

 on the shelf for a time. Lately the Board resolved to send up a deputation to the 

 Commission on Agricultural and Dairy Schools to give the views of the Board on the 

 subject. That was done, and the report of their evidence had already appeared in 

 the newsjiapers. Mr Gillespie then gave an account of the examination of himself 

 and Mr M'Qvxeen by the Committee. Proceeding, he said the present position of 

 matters was that the Commission had concluded its labours as regarded the taking of 

 evidence, and he believed the appearance of the report might be expected very 

 shortly. Individually, he would take the occasion to express the hope that the 

 recommendations of the Commission would prove adequate. Great Britain was the 

 only civilised country in the world that did not subsidise liberally agricultural educa- 

 tion, and yet that remark was subject to correction. Great Britain had subsidised 

 agricultural education in Ireland for many years to the tune of £4000 annually. 

 Scotland for a number of years had got £150 to the agricultural chair of the 

 University of Edinburgh, and England had got £200 in connection with the professor- 

 ship at South Kensington. That was the measure of the Imperial liberality so far as 

 Scotland and England were concerned. Ireland got £4000 a year, and he rejoiced 

 that it did so, but he did not understand why so much should go to Ireland and 

 so little to England and Scotland. In the meantime they must possess their 

 souls in patience until the report appeared. But, unless adequate recommend- 

 ations were made in this report for agricultural education both in England and 

 Scotland, he humbly thought it was their duty, in the agricultural interests of 

 Scotland — as in one sense representing the people of Scotland^it was their duty to 

 leave no stone unturned to induce the Government to give them a liberal amount. 

 He hoped such measures as were necessary for that purpose would be taken. He 

 also hoped that the recommendations of the Commission would be such that no com- 

 plaint would be made regarding them. He thought that it was well in the meantime 

 that the public should understand what the position of matters was as regarded the 

 money grants, and with that information they should be able to judge of the recom- 

 mendations which that Commission might make. 



Mr NiVEN Matthews, Newton-Stewart, as one who had had a good experience 

 of dairying, said there was no system of farming so likely to succeed during the 

 present unfortunate depression in agriculture as that of dairy farming. (Hear, 

 hear. ) He had had a great many intelligent dairy managers, but their difficultj' had 

 been the want of sound education, and esjiecially the want of a thorough know- 

 ledge of chemistry. He therefore thought it was the duty of the Society to do 

 everything in its power to promote the establishment of dairy schools throughout the 

 country. 



The report was then adojited. 



Pleuro-Pneumonia. 



Mr Stirling of Kippendavie, reported that since the general meeting in June, the 

 committee appointed in May last to inquire into and report as to the practicability 

 of making an exhaustive inquiry in regard to pleuro-pneumonia had asked the princi- 



