[Illustration: "_I always find great difficulty in obtaining entrance to the dairy competitions._"] INTEREST IN DAIRYING. My thoughts are at the moment running on ground rents, royalties and wayleaves, so if I wander from the subject I hope you will forgive me. I cannot regard the subject of dairying without thinking how we would have stood now supposing we had taken up the question as we ought to have done twenty years ago. We would not now be taking a back seat with the foreigners. But I always now find great difficulty in obtaining entrance to the dairy competitions, if I go there casually. Whether it is the attractions of the pretty dairymaids inside, or the coolness of the atmosphere, there is certainly very great interest taken in the competitions and that is satisfactory. _Monmouthshire Dairy School Prize Distribution, November 5th, 1895._ WHERE ALL CLASSES MEET. Of all meetings which take place in the course of a year, there are none attended with such universal good as an agricultural meeting, because here all classes can meet, whereas in nearly all other meetings the attendances are of a sectional character. For instance, race meetings--many people think them wrong and never attend them. Then there are Church Extension and Missionary Meetings--a great many do not like to attend them. But as to agricultural meetings, everybody seems to like to attend them, from the clergy to the racing man, the mechanic, the agricultural labourer, and the meetings must, therefore, promote a deal of harmony among classes. An agricultural meeting is much more effective than the proceedings of Messrs. Bright and Cobden, who are going about preaching a war of classes. _Tredegar Show, December 15th, 1863._ WHERE THE AGRICULTURIST SHOULD STUDY. Some excursionists were going around the house of either Wordsworth or Tennyson--I forget which--and asked a servant where was her master's study. She replied, "Here is my master's study, but he studies in the fields." That is the lesson to be learnt in respect to agriculture. _Agricultural Exhibition, Newport, December 2nd, 1910._ A BLUE BOTTLE AND A BIRD. I hope you won't do what I did last time. It was a day very different from this. It was very hot. I saw an animal in the ring that I did not care the least about, and just then a great blue-bottle settled on my nose. The consequence was that I bought the worst animal at a very high price. _Stock Sale at the Duffryn, Newport, October 7th, 1909._ A LIMIT EVEN TO SCIENCE. [Illustration: "_Just then a great blue-bottle settled on my nose._"]