Farmer and stockbreeder . y impressed at the extent towhich the Lowlands were in advance of anythingthey saw in Mid-Wales. They saw science combinedwith practical knowledge in intensive pioduction,and in Mid-Wales it had been a great advantage tohave had a man from such a district among had Ijeen one of the first lo realise the import-ance of forming a Farmeis Union, and while otherswere indifferent he kept the torch alive. Mr. David Pryce, a member of the Welsh Agri-cultural Council, said Mr. Macqueen had madevaluable experiments in manures and seeds beforeWales had her universities
Farmer and stockbreeder . y impressed at the extent towhich the Lowlands were in advance of anythingthey saw in Mid-Wales. They saw science combinedwith practical knowledge in intensive pioduction,and in Mid-Wales it had been a great advantage tohave had a man from such a district among had Ijeen one of the first lo realise the import-ance of forming a Farmeis Union, and while otherswere indifferent he kept the torch alive. Mr. David Pryce, a member of the Welsh Agri-cultural Council, said Mr. Macqueen had madevaluable experiments in manures and seeds beforeWales had her universities to carry on such were now two excellent colleges in Wales, andhe suggested that the most suitable memorial to onewho had given them such a stimulus in their in-dustry was to found a scholarship, tenable at oneof those colleges, to enable promising agriculturalstudents to their studies there. It would bean inducement to farmers sons attending the Welsh-pool ^itermediate Schools to take up higher Sir A. Griffith-Boscawen said that, although hecould not accept the amendment, there was much tobe said for the substitution of an arbitrator for aCounty Agricultural Committee; but to remit amatter first of all to an Agricultural Committee,and then allow an appeal from them to an arbi-trator, vr-as a cumbrous method of procedure. Hewas sanguine of the success of the committees. Hesaid, however, that before the report stage he wouldlook carefully into the matter of whether or not tosubstitute an arbitrator in the first place for theCounty Agricultural Committee. The amendment was then withdrawn, and Clause 9was afterwards agreed to. GOOD AND BAD FARMING On Tuesday the committee took up considerationof Clause 10, which provides for compensation to alena!it where it is established that the value of theliolding has been increased during tlie tenancy bythe continuous adoption of a system of farmingBore beneficial to the holding than the system re-quired Vjy the c
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