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The late Mr. H. M. Jenkins. 
contrasted with several foreign countries, somewhat to its 
disparagement : — 
" I will ask you to consider," he says, " the position of a young English 
woman who is about to many a dairy farmer. Presuming that the bride- 
elect wishes to learn how to manage a cheese dairy in Gloucestershire, or 
Somersetshire, or Cheshire, or any other cheese county in England, where 
could she go to learn both the practice and the science of the subject from 
beginning to end ? " 
" We need not pause for a reply," he continues, " for echo 
immediately answers — where." In Denmark, and Germany, 
and France, on the contrary, Dairy Schools are common. Now 
at length, however, at Glasnevin and in Munster, Dairy Schools, 
he could say, had been formed. 
In the same year, three months later, he had occasion to 
address the company at the formation of the first English 
Dairy School, which had been established by Lord Vernon at 
Sudbury in Derbyshire, where office work and book-keeping, 
and butter-making, and cheese-making, were to be the subjects 
of instruction : — 
" ' First,' he says, ' let me remind you that you have come to learn a handi- 
craft requiring deftness in manipulation, together with intelligence in apf)re- 
ciation, especially of the fact that circumstances alter cases. To understand 
not only what to do, but how to do it, and why you do it, recollect you 
must concentrate your attention upon what is shown you, as well as what 
is told you ; if you do not, in this, as in all other handicrafts, you will 
be persons who possess eyes without feeling, feeling without sight, mere 
machines, such as can be obtained by the hundred. If on the contrary you 
use general intelligence and industry, you will soon find your reward.' " 
I do not think I need illustrate at any further length 
Mr. Jenkins's remarkable aptitude to teach. 
Reports to Royal Commissioks. — The two most laborious 
performances of his agricultural career — as successful, too,, 
as they were laborious — remain to be named, — his Reports 
to the Agricultural Interests Commissions as an Assistant- 
Commissioner, and his Report as an Assistant-Commissioner 
to the Rojal Commission on Technical Education. In con- 
nection with the former I have been told that to Mr. Jenkins 
was due not only the special Report which he was com- 
missioned to prepare, but a good deal of the whole scheme and 
programme under which the Commissioners finally arranged 
their proceedings. Mr. Jenkins was not himself named on the 
Commission, but the leading men engaged on it gladly availed 
themselves of his grasp of the whole subject, and his extra- 
ordinary powers of organisation and arrangement; and to him 
was largely due the elaborate analysis of the inquiry under 
which the various Assistant-Commissioners conducted the in- 
