The Journal of agriculture and horticulture, 1 avril 1898, vendredi 15 avril 1898

[" id Ti A ~ 7 oS 7 472 y i FYOL No.8 This Journal replaces farmer Jour of Agric\u201d and APRIL 15, 1898.Éouncil of Agriculture SESSIONS OF THE 2ist, 22nd, 23rd DECEMBER, 1897 Fxtracts from the deliberations approved by the Lieutenant-Govesnor in Council, February r4th, 1898 Tr éd OS 00 HEC 0 HE OUT DGSE AVG OE NOUS 0000 SG SCO US TEA NONCOUE SO EU SNS C 0 CG AA ANES UE UE DORE\" HTE MONT SON SGA O0 G 66 E AS RS0O TS 001,0 GO0S 40 SEDO0 89 VII.\u2014 The committee on the By-Laws and Regulations of the Council laid on the \u2018able the result of the inquiry they had been charged to make, and suggested the appointment of a permanent committee entrusted with the duty of studying the amendments necessary to be made in the law of agricuiture and in the regulations of the Council.The Council recommended that this committee be composed of Messrs, Bourassa, MeCorkill, Ness and Grignon.The Agricultural Societies are again requested to send, as 00m as possible, to the Department of Agriculture any suggestions they may have to make 4 on this subject È VIII.\u2014 The Council filled up, as follows, the list of Directors of the Agricultural 3 Societies to be named by the Council of Agriculture in virtue of clause 1651 of the Revised Statutes of the Province of Quebec: Brome, Mr.DRAPER, for the counties of.+000 pecans Se, Stanstead. 114 THE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE \u201c WALKER, for the counties of.Hunting lon, * Beauharnois.\\ Châteauguay, _ ç Laprairie, ¢« NESS, for the counties Of.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.Saint-Jean 2 Napierville.+ J Richmond, « DAVIDSON, for the counties of.\u2026.Drummond, Shefford.Missiequoi, ¢« MoCORKILL, for the counties of.\u2026 lberville, Wolfe.1 Chambly, M.DECARIE, for the counties of.cous cusenn f Hocholaur, ; ) Maskinongé.aesvete tra eon so s0e um 000 399002 0E ET 000000 S 0 ATOS OGC SOLS 0SO0 ST ASS RO CUS FO0 SU 0 T2 0000 V0S SCO UN G 000000 CNG CS 0OU MES aL Bessocscnceuuecr At 6 P.M, the Council adjourned to 10 A.M.the f>llowing day.At 10 A.M., December 22nd, 1897, the same members being present as in the previous day : NX.\u2014 Two petitions were read from the existing agricultural societies of the county of Vaudreuil, praying to be allowed to dissolve themselves, and to form, in future, one society for that county.The request was granted.At 6 P.M,, the Council adjourned to 10 A, M.the following day.At 10 A.M,, the Council met again: X VITI, \u2014 At the request of Mr.Auguste Dupuis, in the name of the Agricultural Society of the county of L\u2019Islet, the Council recommended that every facility be granted to this Society for its re-organisation, for the greater benefit of agriculture in the said county, and that its programme, in detail, be forwarded to the Council.N XII.\u2014 Considering the difficulty that occurred in organising ploughing matches last fall, it is granted that Societies that had organised such matches and had forwarded their programmes to the Department of Agriculture, should renew the said matches next spring, open to all subscribers of 1897; or he permitted to organise, next fall, ploughing-matches open to all subscribers of the two years 1897, and 1898, the entries paid last fall being available for the ensuing matches.ED.A.BARNARD, Secretary of the Council of Agriculture.Quebec, D-cember 27th, 1R98 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Ce.DRAINING Ju the Editor of the Journal of Agriculture.Dear Sir.I have been a great advocate of under draining, knowing the value of it from my youth up.I beg leave to make the following observations, I could not heretofore say much for tile draining on account of the cost of tiles ; [ have now got information which 1 think will be welcome news to many that have had the matter of under draining under con