Kogal Scottish ^rBortcuItural Societg. 



Instituted 16th February 1854. 



PATRON : 



HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE KING. 



PROCEEDINGS IN 1916. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Sixty-third Annual Business Meeting of the Society was 

 held in the Goold Hall, 5 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh, on 

 Saturday, 5th February 1916, at 12.45 ^■^'^•i a-nd was attended 

 by about forty members. In the unavoidable absence of Colonel 

 Stirling of Keir, President of the Society, on military duty, 

 Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart, of Lochnaw, senior Vice-President, was 

 called to the Chair. Mr John D. Sutherland represented the 

 Board of Agriculture for Scotland at the meeting. 



Apologies. 



Apologies for absence were intimated from Mr Gammell 

 of Countesswells, Professor Trail, Sir John Fleming, Captain 

 Sprot of Riddell, Colonel Martin, Professor Stewart MacDougall, 

 Messrs Boyd Watt, John M'Kerchar, G. P. Gordon, J. Boyd, 

 Robert Forbes, and Mr and Mrs Wharton Duff. 



Minutes. 



The Chairman said that unless the meeting wished that the 

 Minutes of last meeting should be read, he would move that 

 they be held as read and adopted. 



Mr C. S. France, Aberdeen, moved that the Minutes be not 

 approved. He said that the resolution altering Rule XIV. 

 was not put to the meeting and carried in conformity with 

 Rule XXI. after the amendment was defeated. The Chairman 



