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Kenovation of Farm Orchards. 



industry, especially before the appointment of the present 

 Controller. 



The scheme of reconstruction now approved requires that 

 the members of the Council shall in future be appointed as 

 representatives of particular interests or associations except in 

 the case of the nominees of the Ministry. Members will 

 accordingly be nominated by the following bodies or inte- 

 rests : — The National Farmers' Union, the Federation of 

 British Growers, the Horticultural Trades Association, the Lea 

 Valley Growers, the National Union of Allotment Holders, 

 the Royal Horticultural Society, the National Federation of 

 Fruit and Potato Trades Associations, the Retailers' Associa- 

 tion, and the National Federation of Retail Fruiterers. &c., 

 Limited, the British Florists' Association, the National Seed 

 Trade, the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers, the British 

 Fruit Preservers, the Cider Manufacturers, the Workers* 

 Union, the National Union of Agricultural Works, and the 

 Chamber of Horticulture. 



This alteration will without doubt strengthen the Council 

 and give added value to its advice on horticultural questions. 

 In future, it will speak as a duly elected body of representa- 

 tives covering the whole industry, and will be to some degree 

 comparable with the Council of Agriculture for England, 

 which was set up by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries 

 Act of 1919 to give advice on general agricultural matters. 

 The number of members of the old Horticultural Coimcil is 

 cut down by nearly a half, and the economy resulting from 

 this change, quite apart from the other advantages arising 

 from it, will be considerable. 



The West of England Farm Orchards Committee, appointed 

 by the Ministry and attached to the Agricultural and Horticul- 

 Renovation of ^^^^^ Research Institute, Long Ashton, 

 _ ^ , J Bristol, carried out in the autumn of 1919 

 Farm Orchards. i x- ^ ^ ^ i * -o-i ^ 



an exhaustive survey of a total oi d31 larm 



orchards in Devon, Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, Wiltshire, 

 and Worcestershire, and, as a result of their investigations, 

 recommended, m^eraZia, that dem.ODstrations in orchard renova- 

 tion and management should be given at suitable centres in 

 each county. The IMinistry has accordingly suggested to the 

 County Committees of the West of England that they should 

 take over some neglected grass orchards and renovate them, 

 in order to demonstrate to farmers and others what can be done 

 in this direction. 



