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The late Mr: H. M. Jenkins. 
carrots, lucerne, other crops ; stock management too ; and dairj- 
inj: — all full of information for the English farmer. Manv of 
the iSorwegian farms also are full of the useful information, 
which the reader will find condensed and arranged in 100 
pages of this year's volume. 
.Mr. Jenkins's own contribution to the volume for 1876 
was a report on the Agriculture of Denmark — seventy pages, 
containing agricultural notes of a country which had been very 
earlv recognised as ofFerinsr useful agricultural lessons for Great 
Britain ; for Captain Stanley Carr's report on Holstein was 
welcomed forty-six years ago by Mr. Pusey, our first editor, in 
the very first volume of the ' Journal.' The report of 1876 
refers to the land laws, the agricultural statistics, and the physical 
features of the country ; its general agricultural equipment, 
its cultivation, its dairy husbandry, its meat production, its 
labourers and schools ; and there are full descriptions given of 
many typical Danish farms. It is a very instructive report, and 
nowhere more so than in its account of Danish dairying, describ- 
ing breeds of cattle and modes of management. Professors 
Jorgensen and Segelcke are named : and full credit is given 
to their labours for the improved agriculture of their country — 
credit which was already due, and may now be still more 
deservedly acknowledged. 
Reference may be made here to the Report of the Council 
at the May Meeting, 1875, especially for the urgency which 
it reports as having been brought to bear on the Government 
in respect of the measures necessary to restrict the extent 
and intensity of the annual outbreaks of Cattle disease. The 
passing of the Agricultural Holdings Act (1875) is also 
referred to, and the intention to publish it with analysis and 
explanations is announced. In both of these particulars the 
courage of the Society in the discharge of a clear duty to its 
members without too careful or anxious a regard to thq con- 
ditions of its charter, and the advantage of an Editor and 
Secretary unbound by prejudice or over-caution, may, I think, 
be recognised. 
The volume for 1877 contains another Dairy report, for to 
a large extent the former, too, was on the dairy industry 
of the countries visited. Here we h.ave Mr. Jenkins's report 
on the Industrial Dairy Exhibition at Hamburg. Milk and 
milk products, condensed milk, fresh butter, salted and cured ; 
keeping butter made in winter, or in summer and autumn; 
melted butter, artificial butter and other sorts — are all re- 
ferred to. Of the last there were eleven specimens made by 
M. Megt's process from animal fat. "Like melted butter," 
says Mr. Jenkins, " doubtless a useful article in the kitchen, 
