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AGRICULTURE AND .ITS PRODUCTS.…

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AGRICULTURE AND ITS PRODUCTS. t OFFICIAL APPRECIATION OF I MONMOUTHSHIRE. The annual dairy competitions for gold, silter, and bronze medals promoted by the Monmouthshire County Council Agricultural Committee, together with the competitive dis- play of produce, were held at Newport Cattle Market on Friday. The event was larger and more important than ever before, there being so extensive a show of apples that an extra length of permanent shedding had to be requisitioned. In the afternoon there was a large gather- ing at the Temperanoe-hall, for the distnibu- tion of the chief awards. Alderman S. N. Jones, chairman of the agricultural educa- tion committee, presided, and was supported by Viscount Tredegar. Sir Thomas Elliott, K.C.B. (secretary to the Board of Agricul- tare). Colonel Courtenay Morgan, Mr. L. Forestier-Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Addams- Williams, Mr. Isaac Butler (high-sheriff). Mr. W. P. James tchairman of the county council), Mr. Charles D. Phillips, the Mayor of Newport (Mr. J. H. Williams), Mr. T. E. Watson, and many others. Mr. W. J. Grant, the director of agricul- tural education, in the course of his report stated that the subjects taken up during.the year included arboriculture, basket-making, j practical dairy instruction, hedging, cider J and perry making, veterinary science, pasture experiments, potato experiments, poultry, beekeeping, cheesemaking, milk testing, horse shoeing. milking. school gardens, sheep shearing, sterilising and; bottling fruit. Mr. Grant mentioned that the young lady who last year won the gold medal in the dairy competition at Newport { also secured the champion prize jn one of the biggest milking classes ever held, and won the silver medal offered by the British Dairy Farmers' Association. Sir Thomas Elliott, who distributed the prizes in the chief dairy classes, delivered an interesting address. He claimed that there was much of interest and importance in the agriculture of Monmouthshire, in which there were 5,100 small holdings and about 1.500 large holdings, about 14.000 horses, over 50,000 head of cattle, a quarter of a million of sheep, and about 14.000 pigs. There never was a time when the position of the agricultural community had a brighter out- look than at present. and he had nothing but admiration for the way in wh.ch agriculturists had surmounted the difficulties which had confronted them. He asked agri- culturists generally to be patient in the matter of restrictions which the Board of Agriculture had to impose, especially in the removal of stock to avoid the spread of removal of stock to avoid the spread of disease. There had of late years been five or six inroads of foot-and-mouth disease in this country, and but for the energy and the capacity of the officers of the Board of Agri- culture that disease would have spread throughout the kingdom. The board was becoming the great publishing department of the State, circulating a million and a half leaflets a year. Sir Thomas remarked that agriculturists in Monmouthshire had special reason to be thankful for the help the county council was giving them. (Hear, hear.) He thought there was. something still to be done in the matter of obtaining a larger yield of milk from cows, and in his judgment there was still an untouched market in poul- try and bottled fruit. (Applause.) It was also rery important that farmers should cultivate the spirit of co-operation. (Hear, hear.) Viscount Tredegar. in proposing a Tote of thanks to Sir Thomas Elliott, said he was glad a deputation from the county council that day had evoked the sympathy and assistance of Sir Thomas in the matter of the oubreak of glanders amongst horses. In the matter of education there were some things which a dull mortal like himself could not grasp. Only that morning- he was asking an agricultural student how he got on in his examination. and he replied that he could not understand the last question- how to add 41b. of butter to four o'clock. (Laughter.) Whilst he was in the exhibition that day he remarked to one person-he must have been an Irishman—upon the size of the potatoes, and said he liked smaller ones. The reply was, "There are certain subjects which are much too serious to joke about." (Laughter.) A vote of thanks was also accorded to Lord Tredegar for the use of the cattle market for the show. This was proposed by Mr. W. P. James, the chairman of the county council, and seconded by Alderman Henry Bowen, Tredegar, the latter remark- ing that he believed if the committee had asked for the use of Tredegar House they would have had it. The judges and the chairman were also thanked for their services. Mrs. Forestier-Walker entertained the whole company present to tea. The ladies winning the medals for dairy- work were:-Gold, Miss Lettie Davies, Tre- owen, Chepstow; silver, Miss Ada Rogers, Uwynderri. Raglan; bronze, Mis3 Flo Price, Village Farm, Penhow; reserve. Miss Edith James, Llancayo.

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