THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1857, 31 May 1884, Page 2

THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY.

The Sb James' Gazette says —The ' Highland and Agrku'tur 1 ?f 'iety of ■ Scotland ' lias now obtained its hundredth year. For a century this body has been one of the guiding lights of Scottish farming. It may be ungrugingly allowed to the society that it has done much to place Scottish agriculture in the favourable position it now occupies. The fine crops of cereals and roots now grown in Scotland have been nuturud by the society till they have attiined their present excellence , and whenever in * Bleak Caledonia ' two blades of grass have been made to grow where only one grew before, that improved condition of' culture is greatly owing to the encouragement given by Highland Society to Scottish agriculturists. Tue same body of men—propriefo"? and tenant-farmers — have also done much to improve the cattle and sheep stocks of Scotland by msans of their annual shows and liberal prize-list. The exhibitions of the society are now looked forward to by Scottish farmers and stock-breeders as among the great events of the agricultural year ; and that the shows ot the Highland Society continue to find more and more favour in the eyes of all interested 'is made manifest in the continual augmentation of the receipts. The show of the present y> ar, should nothing occur to mar the arrangefraents, will undoubtedly prove the most important of. the series ; the premiumlist is the heaviest which has yet ' been devised, and the „ applications for onrolinenfc by new members is larger thur year than ever it was before. The Society, it is, gratifying to know, possesses a large amotfftt' of invested capital arid a 'pros-peroua-lookin^ fttuiua,! incomq,