HISTORICAL. 7 



The studio in which Gainsborough immortalised on canvas 

 the fashionable folk of his day was the meeting-place of the 

 Agricultural Club. The walls which had echoed to the 

 flippant scandal and gay gossip of the town a century and 

 a half ago were equally responsive to the country-side 

 conversation and agricultural arguments of the present 



day. And in another hundred and fifty years . In 



that spot 



"Where I made one turn down an empty glass." 



The Club held thirty-seven meetings for discussion. On 

 two occasions the proceedings did not begin with a prepared 

 address on paper ; in one case the gentleman who was to 

 introduce the subject failed to attend owing to unexpected 

 detention at the House of Commons, and in the other case 

 the subject was, so to speak, thrown down from the Chair 

 to be scrambled for without formal introduction. 



The subjects discussed took a wide range and were as 

 follows : 



" The Training of the Rural Worker in the operations- of the 

 Farm," Sir A. D. Hall, K.C.B. 



" Pig Keeping in War Time," Lord Bledisloe, K.B.E. 



" Village Life After the War," Sir Henry Rew, K.C.B. 



" Industrial Farming," Mr. C. S. Orwin, M.A. 



" The Place of the Small Holder in the Problem of Rural Recon- 

 struction," Mr. George Nicholls, O.B.E. 



" The Place of Women in Agricultural Development," Mrs. 

 R. Wilkins, O.B.E. 



" British Agriculture as a Business Proposition," Mr. J. H. Guy. 



" The Decline of Village Life : Cause and Remedy," Mr. Haman 

 Porter. 



"Village Reconstruction," Sir H. T. Eve, K.B.E. 



" Rural Housing : Policy and Administration," Sir Lawrence 

 Weaver, K.B.E. 



" Agricultural Development and National Welfare," Mr. R. 

 V. Lennard. 



" Agricultural Organisation with particular reference to guaran- 

 teed prices," The Rt. Hon. F. D. Acland, M.P. 



" Food Production in War and Peace," Sir T. H. Middleton, 

 K.B.E. 



" Intensive Culture : Is there Scope for Further Development ? " 

 Mr. R. R. Robbins, C.B.E. 



