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seived their masters long and faithfully. Other prizes and medals, arising 

 out of legacies to the society by various benefactors for determined objects, 

 have also been awarded, and two competitions, to which prizes attach, for 

 publications on seed-drying and horse-breeding, have been opened, f^^l^ 

 The society has a special fund of about 25,000 crowns intended^for 

 grants to poor students who have to pass examinations in agriculture at the 

 Higher School of Agrictdture and the Veterinary School. Monthly grants of 

 no more than 20 crowns are made for the maximum period of a year. Six 

 students received in 1915-1916 such grants amounting altogether to about 

 900 crowns. 



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Mention should finally be made of four meetings, held on the initia- 

 tive of the Society of Agriculture, by its representatives and those of three 

 other large agricultural associations in the kingdom, namely the Associa- 

 tion of Mutual Agricultural Societies, the Federation of Co-operative Socie- 

 ties, and the Peasants' Association {Husnuind). At the first meetings no 

 more was done than amply to discuss and to vote on an order of the day ad- 

 dressed to the Minister of the Interior. This expressed a wish that agri- 

 culture should be more largely represented in the commissions responsible 

 for fixing the prices of foodstuffs. At the other meetings various other sub- 

 jects were discussed, such as the employment of agricultural machines, the 

 protection of agricultural interests abroad, the formation of an agricultural 

 office of accounts. All the meetings were well attended and their results 

 have been very important to agriculture. Summary accounts of their 

 discussions have been published in differerent agricultural reviews. 



