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great, particularly as so many of them are working under yearly 

 contracts. 



The third class of farmer has in the meanwhile had an 

 exceptionally good year. He has no milk-round or contract to 

 keep up, whilst his new-calved cows, when sold, have fetched 

 enormous prices. 



The farmer, too, who goes in for " lying-off " cows has come 

 out \evy much better than he ever appeared likely to do, as this 

 class of cow was fetching a high price in the early part of the 

 summer. The Lancashire milk-seller is hoping for the removal 

 of the restrictions against Irish cattle, but he is the last man to 

 want Irish cattle brought into England without proper precau- 

 tions being taken to ensure that fresh infection in his county 

 should be impossible. 



W. R. P. 



The Agricultural Organisation Society. — In order to qualify 

 for grants from the Development Fund, the Agricultural 

 Organisation Society has now l)een reconstituted to meet certain 

 conditions laid down by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 

 and the Development Commission with the approval of the 

 Treasury. 



Under the said conditions the work of agricultural organisa- 

 tion on co-opei*ative lines is to be continued, but on a more 

 comprehensive scale. The first Governors, who hold office 

 until April, 1914, have been appointed by the Board of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries and the Development Commission 

 jointly, and in addition to representatives of the old Society's 

 governing body, include representatives of important agi'icvil- 

 tural interests and other public V)odies, e.g. the Board of Agricul- 

 ture, the County Councils Association, the Co-operative Union, 

 Railway Companies, the County Land Agents Association, &c. 

 Mr. R. A. Yerburgh, M.P., whose work on behalf of the 

 old Society is so well known and recognised, has been 

 appointed the first President, and the Earl of Shaftesbury, 

 K.P., K.C.V.O., the Chairman of the Governors. The re- 

 maining Governors are the Lord Strachie, Mr. F. D. Acland, 

 M.P., Mr. Charles Bathurst, M.P., Mr. S. Bostock, Mr. W. 

 Fitzherbert-Brockholes, D.L., Mr. Philip Burt, Mr. E. J. Cheney, 

 Mr. H. C. Fairfax-Cholmeley, Mr. J. S. Corbett, Mr. Rupert 

 Ellis, Mr. H. Jones-Davies, J.P., Mr. Cyprian Knollys, Mr. 

 Duncan Mclnnes, J.P., Mr. G. L. Pain, Mr. Abel H. Smith, 

 Mr. Clement Smith, The Hon. Edward Strutt, Mr. A. White- 

 head, Colonel Robert Williams, M.P., Mrs. Roland Wilkins, 

 and Sir James Wilson, K.C.S.I. 



The first meeting of the Governors took place on October 

 9 last at the Westminster Palace Hotel, Westminster, S.W. 



