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elude by sayiug, that the agriculture of our country will never 

 find an element of riches or prosperity in the quality of the 

 meat of its breeds of animals by concluding that tliat quality 

 is superior to that of the English breeds, and remind you that 

 it is the contrary that I maintain, but rather in the quantity. 

 The maas of consuoiers have not delicacy of palate enough to 

 diatinguish an imperceptible shade in the taste of meat. The 

 population who consumes, as well aa the farmer who produces, 

 require a great quantity of meat, in order, not only to supply 

 the demand of our markets, but still more, to furnish to our 

 neighbours the deficiency in their production. That is the 

 question ; to place it upon shades of taste or flavour, which 

 are appreciable only with gourmands, is a mockery. The agri- 

 culturists, setting aside all prtjndice of race and nationalityi 

 ought to apply themselves to the breeding of animals that 

 bring the most profit ; although even MM, the gourmands 

 who hold to flavour without being willing to pay an extra price 

 for it, may make wry faces and cry "shame" upon the English. 

 F. R. DE LA Treuonnais. 

 P.S. Allow me to transcribe here the following passage, taken 

 from the last puhlication of one of our most eminent ecouo- 

 mists. In a book entitled " Acjrkulture and PopuhUion,''' M. 



L6onc6 de Lavergne says, in speaking of cattle, p, 203, " Agri- 

 culture has three great products— meat, cereals, and wool. 

 Of these three commodities, meat is the moat important, if not 

 in itself, at least by the influence that its production exercises 

 over the others. Not only does it constitute one of the most 

 precious aliments for man — one of those which combine in the 

 smallest volume the most of nutritive matter, and which repair 

 the most the forces without fatiguing the organs ; not only it 

 implies the labour, the milk, aud the wool, which possess, not 

 less than itself, of beneficial value ; but without it, no dang, and 

 consequently but few cereals. All the agricultural edifice rests 

 upon the cattle ; there is no greater interest for peoples. We 

 may say without exaggeration that the richest and most power- 

 ful are those who have the most of them. This production 

 has made great progress in France, having doubled in fifty 

 years, and quadrupled in a century. Is that enough ? Beyond 

 a doubt, no ; for, in the present state of agricultural know- 

 ledge, we might still make it four times more. England has 

 done so ; and I therefore understand that they attach an im- 

 portance of the first order to that species of product. All that 

 interferes with the propagation of cattle is a puhlic muforttme ; 

 all that promotea it is a blessing, &c." 



ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 



Weekly Council, March 30.— Present : Colonel 

 Challoner, Trustee, in the Chair, Sir E. C. Kerrison, 

 Bart., M.P., the Rev. L. Vernon Harcourt, and Mr. T. 

 Lyoa Tliurlow. 



Mangel Wurzel.— Mr. Edward Farmer called the 

 attention of the Council to the importance of storing 

 Mangel Wurzel, and to a fact which had occurred within 

 his own experience, which led him to believe that the 

 root in question " might be kept good for food in the 

 winter, twelve months after having been stored from the 

 ground." 



Polish Agriculture. — The Agricultural Society 

 of the Kingdom of Poland having decided to hold an 

 annual agricultural meeting, at which a leading feature 

 should be the trial of implements, applied to the Coun- 

 cil for a statement of the principles on which the trials 

 of the Royal Agricultural Society of England had been 

 carried on. The Council ordered copies of the several 

 reports on the trial of implements at the Society's coun- 

 try meetings, along with Prize Sheets for the current 

 year, and a statement of the prospective arrangement 

 for the trials during the ensuing four years, with an 

 e.xplanatory letter from the Secretary, to be forwarded 

 to the Agricultural Society of Poland. 



Adjourned to April 6. 



Monthly Council, April 6. — Present ; His 

 Grace the Duke of Marlborough, President, in the 

 chair; Earl Powis, Lord Feversham, Lord Leigh, 

 Lord Berners, Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., Sir J. V. B 

 Johnstone, Bart., M.P., the Hon. W. G. Cavendish' 

 M.P., Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, Mr. Alcock] 

 M.P., Mr. Amos, Mr. Raymond Barker, Mr. Barnett' 

 Mr. Barthropp, Mr. Bramstone, M.P., Mr. Blount, Mr! 

 Caldwell, Colonel Challoner, Mr. Exall, Mr. Foley," 



M.P., Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, Mr. Ilamond, Mr. 

 Fisher Hobbs, Mr. Hudson (of Castleacre), Mr. Law- 

 rence, Mr. Milw^rd, Professor Simonds, Mr. Slaney, 

 M.P., Mr. R. Smith, Mr. Banks Stanhope, M.P., Mr. 

 Thompson, Professor Voelcker, Mr. Jonas Webb, and 

 Mr. Wilson (of Stowlangtoft). 



The following were elected members ; 

 Bruce. John, Tiddington, Stratford-on-Avon 

 Burnet, David, Ashley, Stockbridge,nant3 

 Cszalet, Eev. W. W., 6, Groavenor-Street 

 Elliston, B., Croydon, Arrington, Cambridge 

 Graves, Septimus Perry, Stoney Thorpe, Southam 

 Green, William, Takely, Little Cau6eld, Chelmsford 

 Halford, Thomas, Newbold on-Stour, Stratford-on-Avon. 

 Hoelay, Thomas, The Fosse, Leamington 

 Isherwood, Arthur, Marple Hall, Stockport 

 Langdon, William, Ashford House, Barnstaple 

 Long, Alexander Wearing, Mint Cottage, Kendal 

 Margetts, John, High-Street, Warwick 

 Morgan, Godfrey Clarke, M.P., Ruperra Castle, Cardiff 

 Noakes, John Tompsett, Brockley House, Lewisham 

 Neville, the Hon. Cbas. Cornwallis, Heydon House, Royston 

 Nightingale, Vaughan, Burway, Ludlow 

 Perkins, John S., Leek Wootten, Warwick 

 Salt, Thomas, Weeping Cross, Stafi'ord 

 Sanderson, Hastings, 5, Brinswood East, Leamington 

 Surtees, Henry Edward, Dane End, Ware 

 Wilson, William, Berkhamstead 

 Wright, William, Sigglesthorne, Hull. 



Finances.— Mr. Raymond Barker, Chairman of the 

 Finaui-e Committee, laid before the Council the Monthly 

 Report on the accounts of the Society, from which it 

 appeared that the current cash-balance in the hands of 

 the bankers was £2,206. 



Journal. — Mr. Thompson, Chairman of the Journal 

 Committee, made the following report : 



1. The Committee recommend that the spare copies of the 



Implement report should be sold at 2s. 6d. each. 



2. That the paper on Potatoes by Dr. Lang, ordered to be 



reprinted, should be reduced so as to be published at 

 a very cheap rate for the use of cottagers. 



