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The flock of registered Hampshire Downs sheep consists of 

 470 ewes, 170 ewe tegs, and 4 rams. 



The chief items of annual expenditure are the following: 

 Labour 830; purchased foods 976; manures 115. 



International Horticultural Exhibition, 1912. (The Gar- 

 dener's Chronicle, n. 3615; p. 237. London, April 9, 1910). 



The Royal Horticultural Society, has unanimously passed the 

 following resolution " that this public meeting is of opinion that 

 it is desiderable to hold an international Horticultural Exhibition in 

 May and June 1912 . In proposing the resolution the President, 

 Sir Trevor Lawrence, who was in the chair, pointed out the great 

 advance that had been made in horticulture since the last great 

 exhibition in 1866, and referred to the hospitality which British 

 horticulturists had received in France, Germany, Italy, Belgium and 

 Holland in recent years. 







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Agricultural Education. Experiment Stations and the organi- 

 sation of agricultural research. Intellectual development of 

 the rural population. 



T. H. MIDDLETON. Cost of Agricultural Education in England. 



(Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Annual Report on the 

 Distribution of Grants for Agricultural Education and Research 

 in the Year 1907-1908; with Statements respecting the several 

 Colleges and Institutions aided, and a Summary of the Agricul- 

 tural Instruction provided by County Councils in 1907-08, together 

 with the Expenditure on the same. Pp. XLII -f- 161, London, 1909). 



There is no doubt that agriculturists benefit from the twenty 

 millions of public money (505 millions of francs) expended by the 

 country upon education, and it is admitted that the cost of the 

 general education of agriculturists cannot be estimated with any 

 degree of exactitude. 



