membership ranging from one hundred to two hundred. The clubs meet periodically, generally once a month for eight months in the year, to discuss matters political and agricultural, and to listen to papers read by experts on methods of agriculture, progress of agriculture, &c. The meetings have been found to be of great interest and utility to the members. The clubs further encourage the labourers to perfect themselves in their work by offering prizes in competition for hedging, ploughing, and other rural crafts. Prizes are also offered to the shepherd who shows the best result during lambing time. In this educational work the Dorset County Council ably supports the clubs by making grants of money towards the prizes, and by holding technical education classes at which the labourers can attend.

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