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tax not exceeding 1 00?., then there would be a very small sum indeed for those 
occupiers of over 100 acres. He did not wish to labour this question, but he 
would like the Council to consider the suggestion that they might ask the 
.Board of Agriculture to reconsider this preference limit, and not give it in this 
particular way. He quite recognised that it was necessary to safeguard the 
small- holder, and to ensure that the small man was not pushed to the wall, 
but on the other hand, if they were going to keep out the large occupiers, men 
with 400 or 500 acres of land, the leaders of the agricultural interests, the only 
result would be that these men would stand aside, and there would be nobody 
to take the initiative, so that the whole scheme would be in danger in conse- 
quence. It would, in his opinion, be very difficult to work this scheme if 
the large occupiers were told that they would only come in at the end. He 
had heard that the Board of Agriculture were reconsidering this matter, and 
were going to issue rules and regulations for carrying out the details of the 
scheme If, therefore, representations could be made to the Board by agri- 
be done S ° CietleS ’ and es P eciall F h J th e Council of the Royal, something might 
Mr. Patterson was sorry to be in disagreement with the resolution. It 
was not the amount he disagreed with, but the principle. It did not go far 
enough. If he was in order, he would like to move an amendment that the 
word remove should take the place of the word “raise.” It was not advis- 
able that it should go out from the Society that it approved in any way the 
suggestion that any agriculturist, no matter how large the area he occupied, 
should be excluded from the benefits of the live stock scheme. It was rather a 
hard thing that those farmers, to whose efforts it was almost entirely due that 
British live stock held its present position, should, on the first occasion the 
Government recognised the necessity for doing something for live stock, be 
excluded, or even to suggest that it was desired to exclude them He had 
pointed out to Mr. Cheney that, as Lord Strachie had mentioned, the large 
farmers had to provide their share of the money, and had also to provide the 
machinery to work the scheme. In reply, he had been told that the farmers 
would have to provide the money, but that it was optional whether they gave 
their services. It was obvious that if the occupiers of 100 acres or less were to 
be depended on for carrying out the work of the live stock scheme, the whole 
thmg woidd faH to the ground. If the larger farmer of the country believed 
that the Society approved of the suggestion that he should be excluded from 
these schemes, it would have a detrimental effect on the Society It could 
quite well be left to the fairmindedness of the larger farmers that they would 
see that the small-holder was treated as generously as possible, and he did feel 
?h Jth tha t lf /i S be a scheme t0 aid the small-holder it was only fair 
that they should be told so plainly, and that it should not be set forth as a 
scheme to benefit live stock, if it was only for the small- holder. 
Mr. Falconer seconded the amendment. 
Mr. Brocklehurst and Mr. Dug-dale having spoken in favour of the 
amendment, the resolution was then carried in the following terms 
“That the Board of Agriculture be asked to REMOVE the nrefprpncp ii m ;+ 
and under can 
On the motion of the President, the Seal of the Society was ordered to be 
affixed to the agreements between the Society and the Corporations of Shrews- 
bury and Manchester in connection with the holding of the Shows of 1914 and 
1916 respectively. dUU 
Tv/r T J! 6 Re ? 0 ^ ° f the Council to the Annual General Meeting of Governors and 
w P n be p ld h the Eoyal Agricultural Hall, Islington, at 12 15 p m 
on Wednesday, December 10, was prepared and ordered to be issued. 
w , , business having been transacted, the Council adjourned until 
Wednesday, December 10, at II a.m„ at the Royal Agricultural Hall. 
