ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. Ixiii. 



Seventh Meeting, December 11th, 1917. 



Mr. H. W. Potts in the Chair. 



papers: 



Mr. H. W. Potts, Chairman of the Section, delivered a 

 lecture on Agricultural Education in America. The lecture 

 was illustrated with a particularly fine series of lantern 

 slides depicting the wonderful development of the technical 

 arts and agricultural science in America. Particular 

 emphasis was laid on the handsome manner in which agri- 

 cultural science is endowed in the States. Mr. Potts 

 stated that agriculture and the teachers of agriculture 

 were almost worshipped in America. 



Mr. Potts stated that he returned to Australia after a 

 tour of the globe, convinced that here we have the richest 

 agricultural country in the world. The pity of it is that 

 up to date we have not risen to our opportunities. 



exhibits: 

 Mr. E. Oheel exhibited three distinct kinds of beans 

 recently introduced, viz., (1) Kratok Bean, an evergreen 

 creeping fodder plant ; (2) Rabaul Bean, similar to Kratok 

 but splashed with reddish marks; (3) a bean (Phaseolus 

 vulgaris) from a German ship captured by the Portuguese. 



Three excursions were held during the year, viz., Hawkes- 

 bury Agricultural College (twice), and Grantham Stud 

 Poultry Farm. 



