Agriculture To-day and To-morrow

Abstract

THE Royal Society of Arts has arranged a special series of ten lectures on “Agriculture Today and Tomorrow”, beginning on November 11. In organizing these lectures, the Society is carrying on what was for nearly a century one of the most important branches of its activities. At the time of the Society's foundation-1754-the methods of agriculture were practically those of the Middle Ages. Until the inauguration of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1838, the Society's Committee of Agriculture under Arthur Young was the most important body in Great Britain concerned with the welfare of agriculture. Under its auspices many improvements were made in agricultural practices. The Society also opened to the public its “Repository of Inventions”, which contained an excellent collection of models of agricultural implements, and in 1761 it held an exhibition of agricultural machines. Although the present lectures are intended mainly for those actively engaged in agriculture, it is emphasized that the series will be of interest to laymen. A syllabus of the series can be obtained from the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts, John Adam Street, Adelphi, London, W. C. 2.