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THE  AGRICULTURAL  EDUCATION 
EXHIBITION,  1904. 
The  circumstances  under  which  an  Agricultural  Education 
Exhibition  was  organised  in  connection  with  the  Society’s 
Show  of  1903  were  described  in  the  last  Volume  of  the 
Journal,  pp.  171-173.  Its  interesting  and  instructive  character 
was  immediately  apparent,  and  a large  number  of  visitors 
testified  to  the  public  appreciation.  In  a new  departure  of 
this  kind,  there  must  necessarily  be  imperfections  capable  of 
being  remedied  as  the  result  of  experience  ; so  that  it  was  not 
surprising  to  find  that  the  Exhibition  of  1904  was  an  improve- 
ment upon  the  previous  year,  and  that  all  the  departments 
were  more  completely  represented.  It  was  felt  that  collections 
which  had  involved  so  much  thought,  care,  and  skill,  ought  to 
have  some  special  record  in  the  Journal ; and,  as  Steward  of 
the  Exhibition,  I readily  undertook  to  compile  some  account 
of  the  principal  scientific  exhibits  and  of  the  practical  agri- 
cultural lessons  which  they  were  designed  to  convey. 
This  year’s  Exhibition  was  organised  by  the  Society’s 
Education  Committee,  in  conjunction  with  the  various  insti- 
tutions represented  by  exhibits.  The  Agricultural  Education 
Association — a body  composed  of  agricultural  education  direc- 
tors and  teachers — also  co-operated. 
As  a Forestry  Exhibition  was  accommodated  in  the  same 
building,  the  Education  Exhibition  was  compressed  within  a 
smaller  aggregate  .space  than  in  1903  ; but  no  great  disadvan- 
tage resulted  from  this  arrangement,  although  some  of  the 
Colleges  would  have  been  prepared  to  occupy  more  space  if 
it  had  been  available. 
I proceed  now  to  describe  the  principal  exhibits  in  the 
order  in  which  they  were  located  within  the  building. 
I.  Rothamsted  Experimental  Station. — The  Lawes  Agri- 
cultural Trust  showed,  amongst  other  exhibits,  a collection 
illustrating  experiments  on  the  quality  of  English  wheat’,  which 
have  been  carried  on  at  Itothamsted  in  conjunction  with  the 
Home  Grown  Wheat  Committee  of  the  National  Association  of 
Millers.^  The  exhibit  comprised  loaves  of  bread  baked  of  flour 
from  American  spring  and  winter  wheats,  Canadian  wheats 
grown  in  England,  Australian,  and  various  English  wheats. 
These  loaves  were  all  baked  under  the  same  conditions  and 
1 See  also  page  296  of  this  Volume. 
