GOOD MEN AND TRUE 



Milton Druce was one of those men whose 

 knowledge, experience, and integrity count for 

 much in the practical work of the show yard, 

 and his services as a judge were constantly re- 

 quisitioned by the leading societies. A close 

 intimacy sprang up between us in my Oxfordshire 

 days and was intensified afterwards, for he was a 

 member of the Bath and West Society's Council 

 and its senior steward of stock. He it was who 

 urged me to become a candidate for the secretary- 

 ship of that Society, and I owed much to his 

 advocacy when the selection was made. He was 

 one of the most single-minded, God-fearing men 

 I ever met, and his death, which came all too 

 early, was a real sorrow to me. At his decease he 

 was occupying my old post as secretary of the 

 Oxfordshire Agricultural Society. 



I rejoice that there are two left I fear only 

 two of that Oxfordshire Committee to which I 

 have referred, one of whom, my old and valued 

 friend, T. Latham, of Dorchester, Oxon, has since 

 those days been elected a member of the Bath and 

 West Society's Council, and has rendered it yeoman 

 service as a show yard steward ; the Shoeing and 

 Milking Competitions of the show, especially, owing 

 much to his practical knowledge, initiatory power 

 and never-failing energy. As an active member 

 of the governing bodies of such representative 

 agricultural institutions as the Central Chamber, 

 the Farmers' Club, and the Smithfield Club, 

 among others, he has given valuable aid to the 

 country-side, while earning the goodwill of those 

 with whom he has acted. 



A. T. Matthews, too, is still, I am glad to say, 



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