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in milk to be prohibited; u) Railway Companies to be made liable 

 for damage from sparks; 12) Amendment of law of trespass; 

 13) Recommendations of Departmental Committee on Fertilisers 

 and Feeding Stuffs to be carried out; 14) Amendment of Agricultural 

 Holdings Act, so as to protect capital invested by farmer in his hol- 

 ding. Since the issue of this statement the subjects numbered (i), 

 (2), (n) and (13) have been satisfactorily settled by legislation. 



"The official organ of the Chamber is " The Agricultural Record," 

 containing the Proceedings of the Council, published monthly at 6 d. 

 to non-members. A recent special publication is "Agriculture and 

 Railway Rates," by Thomas Waghorn, price i s. 



"Chairman, 1909: G. L. Courthope, Esq.. M. P. Secretary: A. 

 H. H. Matthews, i and 2, Orchard St., Great Smith St., West- 

 minster, S. W. 



Rules of the Agricultural Organisation Society, London. 



The Society called the Agricultural Organisation Society, Limited, 

 with offices at Dacre House, Dacre Street, Westminster, London! 

 has the following objects and powers as set forth in its rules. 



The objects of the Society shall be to carry on the trades, in- 

 dustries, or business of accountants, booksellers, commercial, agri- 

 cultural and general advisers, publishers and teachers of the prin- 

 ciples and methods of co-operation, as applicable to farming and 

 the allied industries, and of promoting the formation of Agricultural 

 Co-operative Societies for the purchase of requisites, the sale of 

 produce, for Agricultural Credit Banking and Insurance, and for 

 11 other forms of co-operation for the benefit of agriculturalists. 

 The Society shall have full power to do all things necessary for 

 the accomplishment of all objects specified in its rules, including 

 the power to purchase, hold, sell, mortgage, rent, lease, or sub- 

 lease, lands of any tenure, and to erect, pull down, repair, alter, or 

 otherwise deal with any buildings thereon. 



Agricultural Societies in England and Scotland. (British 



Year-Book of Agriculture and Agricultural Who's Who. 1909-10. 



London, 1909, p. 93). 



"Midland Re-afforesting Association. 150 members. 

 President: Sir Oliver Lodge, Birmingham. Hon. Seer.: Herbert 

 .Stone, Bracebridge Street, Birmingham. 



Royal English Arboricultural Society. Founded 1882. Subscrip-- 



