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Wednesday , December 10, 1913. 
The Shropshire and West Midland Agricultural Society with 
the National Terrier Club will hold their Dog Show in the Show- 
yard on the Thursday and Friday, J uly 2nd and 3rd. 
An Agricultural Education and Forestry Exhibition will be 
held on the same general lines as those of previous years. 
The Plantations and Nurseries Competition to be organised 
in conjunction with the Royal English Arboricultural Society 
will next year be restricted to the counties of Shropshire, 
Staffordshire, Radnorshire and Montgomeryshire. 
As already announced, the Shows of the Society after next 
year will be held as follows At Nottingham m 1915; at 
Manchester in 1916; and at Cardiff in 1917. 
The samples analysed for Members in the Society s laboratory 
have been just about the same in number as in 1912, the total 
being 393 as against 426. In addition there were 191 samples 
of milk and 40 samples of cider analysed m connection with the 
Society’s Show at Bristol. 
Taking the analytical work as a whole, it has tended to show 
that there is a decrease in the practice of adulteration, and cases 
of misrepresentation and overcharge are less frequent. Only 
one private circular referring to a case of fraud has been issued 
to Members during the year. 
The work at the Woburn Experimental Station continues to 
expand. This has so far been recognised that a grant of P500 
was made during the year from the Development Fund in am 
of the experimental and research work carried on. Ik© Station 
has been visited frequently, both by individuals and by Parties 
of agriculturists. Among the latter may be named, the 
Glamorgan County Council, the Northampton Chamber oi 
Agriculture, County Lecturers of the West of Scotland Agricu ^ 
tural College, and local farmers. On July 22nd the Members 
annual visit took place, 64 being present, and on July 31st the 
Council made their annual inspection, accompanied by repre- 
sentatives of the Board of Agriculture, the Lawes Agricultural 
Trust, etc. On this occasion the Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman, 
President of the Board of Agriculture, together with the Secre- 
tary of the Board, Sir Sydney Olivier, the late Secretary, Sir 
Thos. Elliott, Mr. R. H. Rew, and others were present. I he 
covering-in of the yard at the Farm buildings has been completed, 
and extensive improvements have been made in the Farm 
Manager’s residence. 
As regards the field experiments, in addition to those on 
continuous wheat and barley, the rotation and green- 
manuring experiments have been further carried on, as well as 
work on varieties of oats, varieties of lucerne, clover and grass 
mixtures, linseed, soya bean, etc. 
The early part of the season was a very trying one, but, on 
the whole, wheat did better than in 1912] the harvesting oi 
barley was considerably delayed, but the crop was about the 
same as in 1912. Of the varieties of oats tried, Banner 
(Canadian) promises to be the best, and of lucerne, the Russian 
(European) variety. Excellent crops of hay and ot seeds 
