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Sir Richard Powell Cooper, Bart. 
co-operation amongst farmers to secure political, social, and 
commercial advantages ; the middle-man in agriculture (Mr. 
Rew grants that he is often indispensable, and not always the 
parasite that over-enthusiastic co-operators assume him to-be) ; 
the migration of the agricultural labourer a (dispassionate 
analysis of the position of the rural worker in the year .1892, 
which is of particular interest in that many changes which 
were being advocated at that date, such as Parish Councils, Old 
Age Pensions, &c., have since been effected) ; whilst to many 
people the paper read last year to the members of the British 
Association on the nation’s food-supply will be of chief interest 
as being the most authoritative attempt to set out the relative 
values of imported and home-produced food. 
These and other papers read at various times before limited 
audiences are now available to “ all those who love the land,” 
and their collection and publication at the moment when so 
much amateur effort is being brought to bear upon land 
questions of every kind is particularly opportune. 
C. S. 0. 
SIR RICHARD POWELL COOPER, Bart. 
Sir Richard Cooper, who died after a short illness on 30th 
July last, was born on 21st September, 1847. He was the only 
cbiM of Mr. Henry Cooper, of Clunbury, Aston-on-Clun. 
He fiist intended to follow the veterinary profession, and 
he passed out of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 
with honours. Ultimately, however, he entered the family 
firm of William Cooper and Nephews, the well-known agri- 
cultural chemists of Berkhamsted. 
From this time his agricultural interests were rapidly 
extended, and Sir Richard Cooper soon became very prominent 
in the development of* the foreign market for English pedigree 
stock. A farmer himself on an enormous scale in England 
Australia, South Africa, South America, and Russia, he showed 
faimeis abroad in our colonies and in foreign countries the 
value of our pure-bred stock of all classes, and it would not be 
too much to say that no one individual has done so much to 
create the present world-wide demand. Shorthorns, Red Polls 
Shropshire sheep, and several breeds of pigs, all were kept by 
him either, at Shenstone, or at Ashlyns, and the showyard 
record of his hocks and herds was a remarkable one. 
Sir Richard became a Member of the Royal Agricultural 
Society in the year 1888, and was elected to represent Stafford- 
shire on the Council in 1905. At the time of his death he was 
a member of the Finance, the Showyayd Works, Farm Prizes, 
