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periments : reports of Live Stock at the Society's Meetings by 
Mr. W. Macdonald, Editor of the ' North British Agriculturist ' : 
— these form a proportion unusual on comparison with the con- 
tents of the previous Volumes of the Journal, as it had hitherto 
been edited. 
In 1884 a similar variety of contents may be recorded. 
In this volume one of Mr. Jenkins's most elaborate reports on 
particular departments of English Agriculture is seen in his 
exhaustive discussion of the subject of Ensilage, which occupies 
120 pages, and is explanatory of methods and experience, and 
descriptive of the multitude of examples which had been 
visited. 
The Report of the Council this year calls especial attention to 
the increasing interest taken in the facilities afforded by the 
scientific departments of the Society. Ten years ago 645 samples 
were sent to the Society's Chemist for examination — this year 
the number has been 1628. At the former period the Con- 
sulting Botanist received so few samples that the numbers 
were not worth a record ; the previous year he had received 
508 samples of seed, this year 701. Similar experience during 
the short period that her new department had been in operation 
is reported by Miss Ormerod, the Consulting Entomologist. It 
is proper to mention any growth of interest of this kind in a 
memoir of the Editor of the ' Journal,' for, as stated in the 
Report of the Council, " this number of the ' Journal ' contains 
articles of special interest to agriculturists at the present time, 
and they cannot but believe that the large increase in the roll of 
the Society is in some measure due to the estimation in which 
the 'Journal ' is now held by the agricultural community," 
The volume for 1885 was the first in which no paper appeared 
from the pen of its Editor. He was engaged outside his duties 
to the Royal Agricultural Society of England in an elaborate 
Report on the subject of Agricultural Education, which is, 
indeed, one of the most remarkable proofs he had yet given of 
his indefatigable industry. That the duties of an Editor were not, 
however, neglected, is plain from the Table of Contents, which 
is as various as ever. Here, as in previous volumes, we come 
upon a scries of biographies ; Dr. Voelcker and Sir Brandreth 
Gibbs and Sir Watkins William Wynn had passed away, and 
their services to the Society are recorded. 
The volume for 1886 contained two papers by Mr. Jenkins — 
one on the management of Reformatory and Industrial Schools, 
which he visited in all parts of the country, in order that ihe 
results of spade husbandry might be properly described. 
Reference is here made to some twenty schools and small 
farms connected with them, and detailed accounts are given of 
