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Judge of the farm prize-competition in Warwickshire in 1876, he 
wrote a report marked hy his customary care and exhaustiveness ; 
and so well was this thought of that, four years later, he was en- 
trusted with a similar report on the farm competition in Cumberland 
and Westmoreland (1880). 
In connection with these farm-prize competitions, about which 
to the last he was always regarded in the Council as a great authority, 
a curious topographical facility of his must be noted. For many 
years topography was perhaps his most absorbing study. He was able 
to indulge his taste for travel to some extent by several tours in 
Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany, 
where he visited many of the chief scenes of interest, and explored 
many places remote from the track of the ordinary tourist ; but his 
knowledge of other countries, and indeed of his own country, was by 
no means confined to what he had seen. He had studied maps and 
guide books, and histories and travels. He knew the locality of 
almost any place named, what was to be seen there, what had 
happened there in the past, and how it was to be reached. He was 
kind enough to undertake the duty of mapping out the itinerary for 
the Judges of farms for the Nottinghamshire Farm Competition in 
1888 ; and he volunteered a similar kindness for the Devon and 
Cornwall competition of the present year. His itinerary for this 
inspection was probably one of the latest pieces of work to which 
he was able to set his hand. It was constructed with surprising 
knowledge of the country and of the means of locomotion in a 
thinly-populated district, badly served by railways ; and revealed an 
intimacy with the mysteries of Bradshaw as unusual as it was enviable. 
Other contributions of Mr. Little to the Journal were the 
article on the Agricultural Labourer — his history, wages, ex- 
penses, domestic life, daily work, and education — contributed 
to the memoir on the Agriculture of England and Wales pre- 
pared by the Society for the International Agricultural Congress of 
1878 ; a detailed report on the working-dairy at the Derby Show in 
1881 ; a review of Mr. Jenkins's Report to the Technical Commis- 
sion on Agricultural Education, which appeared in two parts in 
the volume for 1885 ; and a report as Senior Steward of Implements 
at the Newcastle Meeting of 1887. 
In December 1881 he accepted an invitation to a seat on the 
Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, and for the next eight 
years he was an active participant in the varied work df the 
Council, serving on the Journal, Chemical, Seeds and Plants, 
Implement, and Education Committees, and contributing impor- 
tantly to the deliberations of each. About the same time as he 
became a Member of Council he was appointed to the Professorship 
of Agriculture at the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester. 
His first course of lectures was delivered in May 1882, and from 
that time until last November he contributed three courses of 
lectures in the year. 
For several years before his death he had been an active member 
of the Committee of the Farmers' Club, and a frequent speaker at its 
