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and ho might mention that he had seen a letter from Mr. Hudson, of 
Castleacrc, to Mr. Mechi, dated Dec. 5, 18G3, in which the writer said 
" You are quite right in saying that the lands of England are not 
much above half-farmed. Depend upon it there is not nearly enough 
capital employed upon thern. : ' In that opinion he (Lord Fevcrsham) 
also concurred ; and the difficulty undoubtedly was to make sufficient 
manure, or to obtain it at a fair price. 
Mr. Wells, in seconding the motion, observed that tho prepon- 
derance of opinion expressed that day was rather against giving special 
instruction, either in the new or existing schools, for the education of 
the agricultural classes. He should be glad, however, to sec the 
special education of agriculturists as far as possible promoted ; and he 
thought that, without attaching farms to the schools or colleges, such 
a special education might, to a certain extent, be imparted, if the 
elements of chemistry and a rudimentary knowledge of tho steam- 
engine were specially encouraged in these schools, he considered that 
it woidd be very advantageous. 
Mr. Holland, in reply, said it was satisfactory to find that they 
were all agreed on the point that tho basis of instruction for a well- 
educated Englishman, whatever his after profession, should be public 
and liberal, including all branches of natural science as well as mathe- 
matics. After a lad had quitted school, if he had to become a farmer, 
he must have practical knowledge, and that practical knowledge must 
be connected with science ; science and practice must go together ; 
and the difficidty was, how that knowledge was to be given to the very 
large and scattered class to which Mr. Wren Hoskyns had referred. 
The class, however, might be narrowed by remembering that those 
who farmed their own land, or were occupiers of very large farms 
with ample capital, were more or less blended with the class above 
them. That, therefore, would diminish the number of those to whom 
they would have to pay attention ; and if they looked to the small 
farmers, Mr. Brereton, in his pamphlet on education, had marked out 
a limit by drawing the line at the holders of farms from 300 to 500 
acres, just to show that the object was to assist those who were not 
able from circumstances to take advantage of tho institutions which 
were already in existence for tho classes immediately above them. 
The committee would go to work as soon as they possibly could. 
Meeting of Weekly Council, Wednesday, June 8th. Mr. Thomas Eatmond 
Barker in the Chair, Professor Simonds delivered the following 
Lecture. 
On Small-Pox in Sheep. 
Professor Simonds said : — .The disease recognised under the term 
sniall-pox in sheep is one of considerable interest to the agricultm-ist, 
firstly, because of the rarity of the affection ; and, secondly, because of 
the fatality it produces among the animals that arc its subjects. 
Sheep-Pox not identical with Small-Pox in Man. 
The term small-pox has sometimes been objected to on the ground 
