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The late Mr. H. M. Jenkins. 
In 1871 the Dairy subject still takes the leading place, the 
volume opening with pages devoted to American butter and dairv 
factories, and to Derbyshire dairy practice ; and Mr. Jenkins's 
own contribution to this volume gives in full detail the result of 
his visit to a number of Scotch districts, which enabled him to 
write on lowland and arable farming in the east and west, and on 
dairy farming for the milk supplv of towns, on Aberdeenshire 
cattle feeding, and on Highland sheep-farming. The economy 
of labour in Scottish farming occupies some pages, the advan- 
tage and disadvantage of the lease, the competition for 
land artificially stimulated by the law of hypothec and by 
the system of tenders for tenancy, the game laws too — all 
these things are discussed with great fairness ; and the dis- 
cussion is interesting still, notwithstanding the enormous 
alterations which are being both suffered and effected, partly by 
means of legislation, and partly by the inevitable influence of 
market prices. The celebrated agriculture of East Lothian — 
Mr. Hope's farm at Fenton Barns, in illustration of it — is 
described ; several Ayrshire farms are reported as examples of 
dairy management ; the Aberdeenshire system for the provision 
chiefly of the London Meat Market, and Highland agri- 
culture — are reported in some seventy pages, devoted to an 
account of what was to Mr. Jenkins a most instructive tour, 
which was thus also made instructive to his readers. The 
Meeting of the Society had been held at Wolverhampton that 
year ; and the elaborate trials of traction and other engines 
and of steam cultivation generally, form a very weighty and 
important section of the volume. The Prize farms of the 
district are again described : this time by Mr. Wheatley. The 
Report of the Council to the General Meeting in December of 
this year refers to the subject of foot and mouth disease, and 
to the restrictions as to movement of cattle which in the general 
interest were necessary. And to this the attention of the»Society 
and Editor was very urgently directed. 
In the volume for 1872, accordingly. Contagious diseases and 
Veterinary investigations. Reports on the work of the Veteri- 
nary College, on Sanitary Police, and on Cattle plague and 
other veterinary topics, are the leading subjects. Irish agri- 
culture ; the condition of the labourer ; Mr. Thompson on the 
formation and management of grazing grounds ; a most elaborate 
report of the lawsuit at Leeds, which was referred to by Mr. 
Wells as just quoted ; and various other official reports from the 
Society's judges, and from the Consulting Botanist of the Society, 
Mr. W. Carruthers, F.R.S., who had just been appointed, 
and by Dr. Voelcker, the Consulting Chemist to the Society, 
occupy the volume. Mr. Jenkins's own contribution to this 
Journal is his account of the French Peasant-Farmers' Seed Fund, 
