ccx Half-yearly Meeting of Governors and Members, 
forward with no less a sum than 865?. 
to be devoted to horses, and they had 
also undertaken to provide the Gold 
Medals for the Society's premium 
stallions which were to travel in the 
neighbourhood. He need not go into 
the subject of the grant of 600/. 
which had been made by the Society 
in aid of the Government enterprise 
with regard to stallions, because the 
whole of that 600Z. was really not 
expenditure. No part of that sum 
would be spent in those unpractical 
shows which they used to have, when 
a numberof really very inefficient ani- 
mals were presented to the unadmiring 
gaze of those who came to look at them. 
He thought the members would ob- 
serve with satisfaction the paragraph 
referring to the inauguration of the 
scheme for the examination and re- 
gistration of farriers. Some day he 
hoped they would be able to take up 
the foot of a valuable horse without 
finding that the whole of the frog, 
which Nature intended to be for the 
preservation of the horse, had been 
cut away by a blundering black- 
smith. 
The paragraph with regard to the 
Royal Veterinary College and the 
Veterinary Officers of the Society 
showed that they were quite alive to 
what was going on in the world, and 
to the essential importance of keeping 
pace with the times. It had been 
well said that where a medical man 
did not go forward, he certainly went 
backward. The paragraph referring 
to the Chemical Department showed 
that people still persisted in pur- 
chasing impure cakes and feeding 
stuffs. H all customers were wise, 
there would be no fraudulent manu- 
facturers and no fraudulent dealing, 
because if the customer would only 
do what was suggested by the Society 
he would have the remedy in his own 
hands. The Botanical work of the 
Society was satisfactory, and every 
member of the Society would admit 
that great things had been done 
lately in the way of improving the 
samples of seeds that had been sent 
out. The same remark applied to 
the Entomological work. Great ad- 
vantage had been derived from many 
of those leaflets circulated, and from 
the information not only sent out by 
the Royal Agricultural Society but 
also by the Board of Agriculture. 
No more valuable official than Miss 
Ormerod, their Consulting Entomo- 
logist, had ever been attached to a 
great Society. 
The members would observe, he 
hoped with approval, that a very 
lively interest was being taken by the 
Council in educational matters. There 
was to be a great discussion on the 
subject in February next, opened by 
a friend of his own, Mr. Albert Pell 
Technical education in agriculture 
was now attracting very great atten- 
tion in this country, and it was being 
considered both by that Society and 
by the Board of Agriculture. In this 
they were only following in the wake 
of nations, especially Scandinavian 
nations, that were long ago alive 
to the importance of the subject. 
Only the other day he had travelled 
across Denmark, and was perfectly 
astonished that, in apparently so in- 
fertile a country, the inhabitants 
could possibly compete, and compete 
successfully, with England. The only 
reason for it was that the Danes had 
the greatest regard for and apprecia- 
tion of technical education. 
AVith regard to the paragraph in 
the report relating to the Journal, 
he was perfectly at home, because 
he had for so many years been 
associated with it. He appealed to 
anybody, whether practical, scientific, 
or literary, who was at all impartial, 
as to whether this first annual volume 
of their new Journal would not 
compare favourably with anything 
that the Society had ever produced 
before. It was a publication worthy 
of that Society. He wished to say 
this because the matter had been 
called in question in the press and 
elsewhere. He himself and his col- 
leagues had virtually nothing to do with 
the production of a Quarterly Journal. 
It had been forced upon them by the 
general feeling of the Members, and 
they had with a new series to meet 
a general demand. As to the idea of 
competition with anybody else, that 
was perfectly unworthy of the dignity 
of that Society : they did the best 
they could for the agricultural com- 
munity. He was bound in justice to 
say that he thought the Secretary and 
Editor deserved the very greatest 
credit. He (Lord Cathcart) thought 
