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in the same way that the Chemical 
Committee had done with district 
Agricultural Societies and local ex- 
periments. Something niiidit be done 
in the way of lectures on dairying 
or other agricultural subjects, and 
the Committee recommended that 
they be empowered to receive com- 
munications from county and district 
associations desirous of establishing 
such lectures, with a view to assist- 
ance being given to them by the 
Society either by advice or by a 
pecuniary grant. 
The Committee had had before 
them two very important matters, 
^z.. the two schemes drafted by the 
Charity Commissioners for the 
foundation of schools at Woodbridge. 
in Suffolk, and at West Lavington. in 
Wiltshire. The Woodbridge school 
was a grammar school already en- 
dowed, and it was proposed to add to 
it a modern side in which agriculture 
should be taught. The fees were to 
be 507.. a sum which appeared too 
high for the ordinary farmer class. 
The Committee had no particular re- 
commendations with regard to this 
scheme, because it appeared rather a 
higher class school, and apparently 
came up to the same level as the 
Colleges at Cirencester. Downton. 
Hollesley Bay. &c. The West Laving- 
ton scheme was to be started under 
a charity founded on the will of Aid. 
Dauntsey. dated 1543, yielding a 
maximum endowment of 2,000/. a 
year. The Commissioners proposed 
to devote a certain sum of money to 
the establishment of an elementary 
school, and about 1.300/. a year for 
an agricultural school on the same 
basis as the Aspatria .Agricultural 
School, which might lie preparatory 
for Cirencester College. This scheme 
was considered very carefully in 
Committee yesterday, and certain 
suggestions with respect to age. 
lodgings, fees to. be charged, ice. 
were made. West Lavington was a 
district of large farms, but no doubt 
with a view to respect local feelings 
and prejudices — Alderman Dauntsey 
being a West Lavington man — it had 
been decided to start the first school, 
at all events, at West Lavington. To 
mark the Society's appreciation of the 
principle of this scheme, the Com- 
mittee recommended that Lord More- 
ton. President of the Society, should 
be nominated as the Society's repre- 
sentative Governor. 
Earl Cathcakt drew attention to 
the valuable information to be ob- 
tained from a recent Parliamentary 
Blue Book on Foreign Agricultural 
Departments respecting the travelling 
lectureships, which were a very es- 
sential feature in those Scandinavian 
countries which had made themselves 
such serious rivals to British agri- 
culture. He suggested that this Blue 
Book should be noticed in the 
Journal. 
Mr. Bowex-Joses said that itin- 
erant lectures were already esta- 
blished by the Board of Agriculture, 
and had been found very successful 
in some parts — North Wales, for 
instance. Professor Dobbie had 
given lectures in a number of towns, 
and they were attended largely by the 
farmers in the district. He thought 
this subject might be kept in view by 
the Society, and also that members of 
the Council might to a great extent 
make known the beautifully executed 
drawings of Miss Ormerod and her 
sister, issued by the Society, and 
cause them to be used for object 
lessons in the elementary schools. 
He believed it was partly owing to 
the fact that managers of these 
schools were not aware that such 
illustrations existed that they were 
not much used. 
Dairy. 
The Hon. Cecil T. Parker an- 
nounced that he had been appointed 
Chairman for the year, and that the 
Committee had had under considera- 
tion at their meeting yesterday the 
arrangements for the dairy at the 
Plymouth Show, and for the judging 
of the butter-making competitions 
and dairy appliances. 
Hunter Stallion. 
The Duke of Richmond and Gor- 
don announced that he had been 
elected Chairman for the year. The 
appointment of Judges and veterin- 
ary inspectors for the forthcoming 
Spring Show on March i to 7 had 
been left in the hands of the Royal 
Commission on Horse-breeding. Mr. 
T. H. Miller, as senior steward of stock, 
was appointed to act as steward at the 
Stallion Show on behalf of the Societv, 
