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The late Mr. H. M. Jenkins. 
a survivor of those early days ; and it is the highest praise of our 
latest Editor that he maintained the high standard then set up. 
The material for the number of the ' Journal ' which was 
published immediately after the death of jNIr. Frere, had, of 
course, been suggested, planned, and arranged by the then 
Journal Committee. Mr. H. S. Thompson, Lord Cathcart, 
Sir T. D. Acland, Mr. J. Dent, Mr. Edward Holland, Mr. Wren- 
Hoskyns, Mr. C. Whitehead, Mr. R. .Alilward, I\Ir. M. VV. Ridley, 
Mr. J. Carter, and the Right Hon. The Speaker, were the very 
strong ' Journal ' Committee of that day ; and, scattered as 
they were over the counties, and representative as they were 
of both the ownership and tenancy of land, and interested 
as they were both in various branches of the sciences of 
agriculture and in particular departments of its practice, 
there could be no doubt that the current circumstances, needs, 
probabilities, and possibilities of agriculture were thoroughly 
well understood by them. The immediately succeeding numbers 
of the series would also naturally be due more directly to the 
Committee than to the Editor, who, at first acting simply on 
instructions, would not assert himself in any marked degree 
till later on. The first 'Journal' with which he had to do 
contained Reports on the Farming of Middlesex and of 
Staffordshire, on the Agricultural Lessons of the dry year 
1868, on the Succession of Green Crops throughout the year, 
on the varying Price of Wheat, on the Retention of Moisture 
in arable land, on the Devon Breed of Cattle, on the general 
subject of Climate as affecting agriculture, together with a 
series of Farm Reports which Mr. Jenkins and others had 
been commissioned to prepare. The young Editor had been 
taken cordially by the hand by many of the practical members 
upon the Council. Mr. Jacob Wilson and Mr. Charles 
Randell guided him through the counties, western, jeastern, 
midland, northern — the latter accompanying him to Wilt- 
shire, where Mr. Rawlence's farm management was explained 
to him ; the former to Northumberland, and beyond it across 
the Border to estates near Netherby, where Mr. Gibbons, of 
Burnfoot, was then, as he still is, a representative man ; over 
Mr. Laing's fine occupation on Tweedside, near Coldstream ; and 
over characteristic farms in Mr. Jacob Wilson's own neighbour- 
hood. In addition to these he studied Mrs. Jordan's farm manage- 
ment near Driffield, and Mr. Torr's near Grimsby ; inspecting 
also Mr. Hudson's Castle Acre Farm, Mr. Jackson's at Tatten- 
hall, Cheshire, and Mr. Bomford's light land and heavy land 
farms in Worcestershire. There never was a better agricul- 
tural schooling nor a more apt agricultural scholar. The young 
