PKOGEEDINCiS AT HOARD MEETINGS. 3 



wliicli the Society has sustained by the death of Mr Adam Curror of The Lee, 

 and their seuse of the assistance rendered by him as a director and a member of Com- 

 mittee. 



CiHCiirT OF THE SOCIETY'S Annuad SHOWS. — The Directors approved of the names 

 suggested by the StancUng Committee on General Shows to act on the Special Com- 

 mittee on tlie Circuit of tiie Society's Annual SIiows, and added Mr Gillou of Wall- 

 house, chainuan of tlie General Show Committee, who was named convener of the 

 Committee. 



CoMi'ETiTio.v OF St.vllion.s AT Peuth. — The Secretary reported that the com- 

 petition of stallions for agricultural purposes for the premium of £150 ollered by 

 the Society for the best stallion to serve this season in the district of the I'ertli Show, 

 took place at I'erth on the 14th of February, when thirty-eight horses were entered. 

 The judges — Messrs Gray, Muncraig, Kirkcudbright ; Smith, Stevenson I^lains, 

 Haddington ; and Wilson, Leithen Hall, Wamjihray — awardcil the premium to Mr 

 David kiddell, IJlackhall, Paisley, for his stallion "Luck's All." Tho district com- 

 prises the eastern division of Perthshire, western division of Forfarshire, Fifeshire, 

 and Kinross-shire. 



Shokthohn Entries. — It was resolved that in future all shorthorn animals 

 exhibited at the Society's Annual Shows must be entered in the Herd-Book, or the 

 exhibitor must {>roduce a certiticato from the Council of the Shorthorn Society that 

 his animal is eligible to be entered therein. 



E.KiiiiiiTioN oi' Imi'LKMknts AT I'louTH. — In accordance with a desire strongly 

 urged on the General Show Committee by a deputation from the Scotti.sh Agricul- 

 tural Engineers' Association, at a meeting held on the 19th February, the lioard 

 resolved to withdraw all jiremiums and medals for implements and machinery, and 

 to open the implement yanl at I'erth to exhibitors of imi)lements of agriculture, 

 horticulture, and forestry, and other implements and collections of articles not agri- 

 cultural, l)ut that there should be no trials or awards of any kind. The deputa- 

 tion consisted of— Mr Kemp, Stirling, chairman of the Association ; Mr George 

 Greig, of Messrs John Fowler & Co., Leeds ; and Mr Main, of Messrs A. & J. Main 

 &Co., Glasgow. 



General Meeting at Perth. — The Board resolved, agreeably with the report by 

 the Committee on General Shows, that the general meeting at Perth should be held 

 in the yard on the 30tli July, at 1.30; and it was remitted to the Secretary to 

 arrange with the contractor to have a suitable erection attached to the Committee 

 Room. 



Chemical Department. — The remit from the general meeting in January last to 

 the Directors to consider how members of the Society can be put in possession of 

 the advantages at present given through local associations, with a greater guarantee of 

 correctness, wa.s, at the meeting of the Board on the .'Jth of Feliruary referred to the Com- 

 mittee in charge of the Chemical Department. That Committee held a meeting on the 

 26th February, when the Secretary read a letter from Mr W. P. Hope, Leith, the 

 mover of the motion at the general meeting, in which he stated that he believed the 

 time had now arrived when tlie Society would confer a great boon upon its members 

 by providing them with cheap and accurate analyses and reports upon manm'es and 

 feeding stuffs, as also upon the various soils ; and he suggested that this be done by 

 the Society's chemist, the farmers paying the same rate into a i'lmd towards his 

 renmneration as they at present }iay to the analytical associations with which they 

 are connected, and that the chemist should be instructed to give vahiations when 

 asked for, in accordance with the general ]irice lists of the day, but not otherwise. 

 Mr Hope also suggested that a form di'awn up from the various i)rice lists be con- 

 tinually in the hands of the chemist, who could send the same to the fanners as 

 the basis of valuation wlien recpiired to make tho same. The Committee re- 

 ported that, being limited by the resolutions of former general meetings in regard to 

 the e.vpense of analyses, they see no way of fui-thering the object proposed by Mr 

 Hope ; but they thought it worthy of the consideration of the Boar<l whether the chemist 

 should not be authorised to make analyses at rates to be arranged sullicient to pay 

 him ; and that on his linding manures or feeiling stull's sold with a guarantee not 

 coinciding therewith, within a certain limit, the name of the seller or manufacturer 

 should be published, if deemed expedient, after the analysis has been submitted to 

 him for explanation as to the discrepancj'. 



The Board unanimously approved of the suggestion, and remitted back to the 

 Committee to make arrangements for carrying it out. 



Transactions. — The remit from the last general meeting to the Directors to 

 suggest the names of members, composed of directors and others, to consider and 

 report whether any change in the present mode of procuring papers for publication 

 can be introiluced with advantage, was at the last meeting of the Board referred to 

 the Publication Committee. At a meeting of the Committee held immediately before 

 the Board met, the Secretary icad a letter he had received from the K<;v. Mr 



