PREFATORY NOTE 



IT is with some hesitation that I have compiled this 

 chronicle. When circumstances brought the career 

 of the Agricultural Club to a close, a desire was 

 expressed by some of its members that the papers 

 and addresses submitted to the Club should be put 

 on permanent record. A few of them have been 

 published in different quarters mainly in the 

 Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture but the 

 majority were circulated only to members of the 

 Club and were not accessible to the public. One or 

 two indeed never attained even this degree of per- 

 manence, but were condensed into a typewritten 

 summary. A complete collection was therefore 

 impossible. Even had it been possible there would 

 still have been difficulty. Some of the addresses 

 were prepared mainly to stimulate discussion, and 

 their authors would not wish them to be regarded as 

 embodying their considered opinions, while others 

 were of passing interest which was not likely to be 

 re-awakened at this time. 



Being in doubt I consulted the members of the 

 Club with the usual result. To compare small 

 things with great, I was in like case with John 

 Bunyan 



" Some said let them live : some let them die." 



The former were in a large majority, but minori- 

 ties, even if they " must suffer," have nevertheless 

 some claim to consideration. Eventually, of course, 

 I compromised. I decided to select from the 

 disjecta membra a sufficient number of fragments 



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