800 Village Clubs Association Conference. [Dec, 



at the outside. For instance, a pen of two pigs, prize winners, 

 at 7 months 6 davs old weie^hed 7 cwt. 2 lb. 



The prizes to be offered at the 1920 Show amount to £4,594. 

 It is possible for a steer or ox to win prizes to the value of £250 ; 

 Sb heifer may win a like sum; a pen of three long-woolled 

 sheep, £110; a pen of three short-woolled sheep, equal; a 

 pen of pigs, £55, or a single pig, £10. Encouragement in the 

 form of prizes is not limited to exhibitors; it is announced that 

 the herdsman, shepherd or pig-feeder who tended stock gaining 

 the first prize in each class will be presented with a sovereign 

 and a framed diploma bearing a suitable inscription. Silver 

 medals will also be presented to the herdsman, shepherd or 

 pig-feeder who fed and attended the best beast, the best pen 

 of sheep and the best pen of pigs in the show. 



At the Smithfield Show for 1920 there will also be shown an 

 extensive and varied collection of agricultural implements, 

 including machines by most of the leading manufacturers. 



An important conference for furthering the movement for 

 the brightening and improvement of rural life by the provision 

 Villa e Clubs centres for recreation and instruction 



Association ^'^^ ^^^^ Village Clubs xissociation 



Conference London recently. The Chair w^as taken 



by the Earl of Shaftesbury, K.P., President, 

 who described the aims of the Association. He remarked that in 

 the past the townsfolk had been the spoilt children of social 

 reformers. It was now essential to bring the country into line 

 with the towns, and to give similar advantages to the rural 

 population. There was great need to lighten the burden of life 

 after a long day's work on the land. 



The first paper, entitled " The Village Club Movement and 

 its Significance," was read by Sir Henry Kew, K.C.B. (Chair- 

 man of the Association), who said that the question of the 

 village was an aspect of the agricultural question. It might 

 be said indeed to be the same question, for if the village 

 depended upon agriculture it was equally true that agriculture 

 depended upon the village. 



The next paper, entitled " The Intellectual Demands of the 

 Villagers," was by Mr. A. W. Ashby (Institute for Eesearch in 

 Agricultural Economics, Oxford. Dealing with the question of 



