THE PARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



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Orders of Council. — On the motion of Lord 

 Portman, seconded by Mr. Raymond Barker, the fol- 

 lowing motion was agreed to: " That it be a bye-law 

 of the society, that no order in council shall be altered 

 without one clear month's previous notice being given 

 to each member of the council." 



Code of Bye-laws. — On the motion of iSIr. Fisher 

 Hobbs, seconded by Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, the Council 

 ordered that the bye-laws and resolutions of council, 

 whici are now in force, be collected together, complete 

 up to the end of the present year, and printed for the 

 use of the members of council. 



Vice-President. — On the motion of Mr. Raymond 

 Barker, seconded by Lord Feversham, Viscount Eversley 

 was unanimously elected a vice-president of the society, 

 in the place of the late Earl Fitzwilliam. 



Responsibility of Implements and Stock. — 

 On the motion of Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, seconded by 

 Mr. Fisher Hobbs, the following resolutions were agreed 

 to: — 



That in future the delivery orders which are now in use for 

 both live stock, implemeuts, &c., be discontioued. 



That a clause be inserted in the conditions stating that the 

 society will not iu any case hold itself responsible for any loss, 

 damage, or mis-delivery of such live stock or implemeuts, or 

 other articles exhibited at the society's shows. 



Metropolitan Meetinf. — On the motion of Mr. 

 Brandreth Gisbb, seconded by Mr. Fisher Hobbs, a 

 committee was appointed — consisting of Lord 

 Portman, Lord Walsingham, Lord Feversham, the 

 Speaker, Mr. Barnett, Mr. Brandreth, Colonel 

 Challoner, Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Mr. 

 Wren Hoskyns, Sir John V. B. Johnstone, Bart., M.P., 

 Mr. Jonas, Mr. Milward, Mr. Thompson, and Mr. 

 Torr — to consider the following subject, and to repoit 

 their recommendations to the C ouncil, viz., as to how 

 far it will be expedient for the Society to make applica- 

 tion to the Royal Commissioners for permission to hold 

 a show, in an early year, on the admirable site which the 

 land lying between the Kensington and Brompton roads, 

 and adjacent to that portion of Hyde Park on which the 

 Great Exhibition of 1851 was held, now offers for the 

 purposes of the Society, if such permission can be ob- 

 tained. 



Lectures and Museum. — Mr. Henry Cole com- 

 municated to the Council, on the part of the Comnuittee 

 of CDuncil on Education, an offer t j the Society, under 

 certain conditions, of the use of the museum and lecture 

 room of the South Kensington Museum. The Council 

 received this communication with an acknowledgment 

 of their thanks. 



Railways. — Mr. Fisher Hobbs called the attention 

 of the Council to the great advantage of obtaining, if 

 possible, earlier decisions from the railway companies 

 of the facilities they are willing to grant to the Society's 

 Exhibitors at the Country Meetings, and the Secretary 

 was directed to enter into communication with the dif- 

 ferent companies on that point. 



Steam-spade. — Major-General Grey transmitted to 

 the Council, by direction of H. R.H. the Prince Consort, 

 a communication addressed to His Royal Highness on 

 the subject of a steam-spade recently invented in tlie 

 United States. The Council ordered an acknowledg- 

 ment of their thanks for the favour of this communica- 

 tion, which they referred to the Implement Committee. 



The Ualf-yearly Meeting of members was 

 held on Friday last, at the Society's House, Hanover 

 Square. Tlie chair was taken at 11 o'clock by the 

 President of the year, Lord Berners. Amon<j those 

 present were Lord rcvcijthain, Col. Clmllonei', Mr, 



BaiTow, M.P., Lieut. -Col. Townley, Mr. R. Barker, 

 Mr. Bramston, M.P , Mr. Slaney, M.P., Mr. Bad- 

 hum, Mr. \y. F. Hobbs, Mr. Barthropp, Mr. B. 

 Webster, Mr. II. Wilson, Mr. Sainsbury, Professor 

 Sinionds, Professor Way, Mr. H. Corbet, Mr. Jonas 

 Webb, the Rev. James Linton, Mons. Trehonnais, Mr. 

 J. C. Nesbit, Mr. Jonathan Gray, Mr. Moore (Wilts), 

 Mr. S. Sydney, &c., &c. 



The Secretary, Mr. Hudson, read the following 

 report of the Council : — 



REPORT. 

 The Society has gained siuce the last half-yearly meeting 150 

 new members on its list, and consists, at the present time, of— 

 83 Life Governors, 

 135 A.uDual Goveruors, 

 908 Life Members, 

 4074 Annual Members, ami 

 18 Honorary Members. 



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The Council have unanimously elected Viscount Eversley 

 one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, in the place of the 

 late Earl Fitzwilliam. 



The funded capital of the Society stands at £9,264 8s. 11 J. 

 in the New Three-per-cents. Stock. 



Professor Way, the Consulting-Chemist of the Society, 

 haviug tendered his resignation of that oflioe, which the Coun- 

 cil have acte^ited, a special Committee has been appointei to 

 report to the Council, in February next, their recommenda- 

 tions of ftrrangemeuts to be adopted for the discharge of the 

 duties of that appointment. 



Prjfessor Simouds, the Veterinary-Inspector of the So- 

 ciety, has made his report to the Council of his observations 

 and mvesii^ations abroad, ou the occurrence and nature of the 

 Cattle-plai^ue ou tlie contiues of Poland, Prussia, and Austria ; 

 and the Council have transmitted to the Highland and Agri- 

 cultural Society of Si;ollaud, and to the Royal Agricultural 

 Improvement Society of Ireland, a counterpart of that report. 

 Professor Simonds has alao made several verbal reports to 

 the Council on his investigations into the nature of diseases 

 which have broken out in several parts of the country among 

 the cattle and sheep of members of the Society. He has alao 

 expressed to the CoiTucil his decided conviction of the conta- 

 gious character of that fatal and prevalent malady pleuro- 

 pneumonia. 



The Salisbury Meeting has been one of the most remark- 

 able assemblages of live-stock and implements ever held in 

 this country. Almost uniform excellence distinguished the 

 several classes of the animals exhibited, while the implements 

 were marked by a high degree of simplicity combined with 

 efKciency. The Show itself, too, was one of the largest ever 

 held by the Society, and was attended by a greater number of 

 visitors than on any former occasion. The success of that 

 meeting affords to the Council a well-grounded assurance of 

 the practical value of the Society's operations in carrying out 

 the great national objects for which it was founded ; and en- 

 courages them in their continued endeavours to render the 

 future country meetings still more effective, if possible, in 

 promoting agricultural improvement throughout the kingdom, 

 without the riakof infringing to an injurious extent on the tinau- 

 cial resources of the Society. Iu order to combine these objects 

 the Council have under their consideration the adoption of 

 several proposed plans which appear likely to lead to improved 

 arrangements in the Country Meeting department. The 

 Mayor and Corporation of Salisbury and the Local Committee 

 cc-operated most cordially with the Council in carrying out 

 the details of the Meeting to so successful an issue ; and the 

 Members were indebted to the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, 

 M.P., for the reception he gave them at Wilton; to Mr. Raw- 

 lence and Mr. Squarey, for the inspection of their water 

 meadows; and to Mr. Squirey for the interesting lecture he 

 delivered on the occasion, in explanation of their construction 

 and peculiar value ; as well as to Mr. Stephen Mills for hia 

 invitation to inspect the light-land system of Wiltshire farm- 

 ing, as carried out oa his own extensive farms in that county. 



The Country Meeting to be held i.ext year at Che.slcr will 

 be distinguished by the unusual amount ol Locul Prizes placed 

 at the disposal of the Society by the I/cal Committee of that 

 city, by the triennial exhibition and tiial of steam tngiuea and 



