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4. Alfred Henry Inman, 9 Queensferry Street, 
Edinburgh. Fourth prize of 5Z. 
5 John James Jeffrav, Blackaddie, Sanquhar, 
N.B. 
6. Richard Henderson, Portland Estates Office, 
Kilmarnock, N.B. 
7. Edward Douglas JIalcomson Hamilton, 
Magherabuoy, Portrush, Co. Antrim. 
8. John Arthur Llewellyn Beasley, Aylestone, 
Leicester. 
9. George Felham Thomas, Hemsworth, 
Poutefract. 
10b James Guntcr, Estate Office, Glasbury. 
11. George Shaman Mitchell, Cannon Street, 
Belgrave, Leicester. 
The Committee had agreed upon a 
report, embodying the results of the 
examination and thechief points dealt 
with by the examiners, which would be 
published in the next number of the 
Journal (seepage 421). Two commu- 
nications had been received from the 
Charity Commissioners, (1) with refer- 
ence tothe Bromyard Grammar School, 
stating that thescheme for that founda- 
tion had been approved by Her Majesty 
in Council, and (2) forwarding copies 
of a draft scheme for dividing the 
endowment of Jarvis's Charity into 
two endowments in the parishes of 
Staunton-on-Wye, Bredwardine, and 
Letton, and inquiring whether, in the 
event of the scheme receiving the 
approval of Her Majesty in Council, 
the Council of the Society would be 
prepared to appoint a Governor, as 
proposed in Clause 6 of the draft. 
The Committee recommended that 
the Council undertake this duty upon 
the completion of the scheme, and 
that Mr. E. Vincent V, Wheeler be 
nominated as the Governor represent- 
ing the Society. Copies of the 
report of the Joint Committee of the 
Central Chamber of Agriculture and 
the Farmers' Club on Technical 
Education in Agriculture were laid 
upon the table, and, after discussion, 
it had been resolved to recommend 
the Council to agree with the follow- 
ing recommendations of the Joint 
Committee : — 
(1) That there should be esta- 
blished and maintained, at the cost 
of the State, a Central Normal 
School of Agriculture. 
(2) That State aid should be 
liberally given to certain endowed 
and county schools on condition of 
their establishing an agricultural 
side for the proper teaching of the 
theory and practice of agriculture 
— practical instruction being carried 
out on a farm, which might either 
be the property of the school — 
or rented by the school — or avail- 
able by permission of neighbouring 
farmers. Arrangements should be 
made for the delivery of courses of 
lectures by the teaching staff or 
other lecturers, open to farmers of 
the district. 
(3) That grants should continue 
to be given by the State in aid of 
local effort to provide technical in- 
struction in dairy or other branches 
of farm work. 
(4) That aid should be similarly 
given to local agricultural associa- 
tions or chambers of agriculture 
engaged in scientific research. 
(5) That in all cases where State 
aid is afforded, it should be of a 
permanent character, subject only 
to certain definite conditions laid 
down by the Board of Agriculture, 
and to the admission of annual in- 
spection by an officer of the Board. 
(G) That ample facilities should 
be afforded by the State to enable 
children in rural elementary schools 
to acquire knowledge of their future 
work, either as agricultural labour- 
ers or as tenants of small holdings. 
Mr. Dent, in moving the adoption 
of this report, called particular atten- 
tion to the Committee's recommenda- 
tion of agreement with the conclusions 
of the Joint Committee of the Central 
Chamber of Agriculture and the Far- 
mers' Club upon Technical Educa- 
tion in Agriculture. Time w r as pres- 
sing, since, as they were aware, the 
new Board of Agriculture had the 
matter under consideration, and the 
Council would not wish that the Royal 
Agricultural Society should be the last 
in the field to offer any expression of 
opinion to the new Department. On 
the whole he thought most of the re- 
commendations made by the Joint 
Committee were those that he could 
personally altogether agree in ; cer- 
tainly that State aid should be made 
to endowed and county schools on 
condition that they established an 
agricultural side for the proper teach- 
ing of the theory and practice of 
agriculture, and that aid should be 
similarly given to local agricultural 
associations or chambers of agricul- 
ture engaged in scientific research. 
