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commaud the best agricultural knowledge of the day, 

 if they would ouly adopt the simple method of announcing 

 what papers were to be read at their meetings, and allowing 

 the gentlemen who represented the agricultural papers to 

 attend and report the discussion. He believed, also, that the 

 adoption of such a plan would create new interest in the 

 society, and largely augment the number of its members. 

 The next subject to which he would allude was the Journal ; 

 and he ventured to say that its management] had greatly 

 dtsappoiuted the subscribers. If they wished to see 

 what an agricultural journal might be made, let them 

 turn to the pages of the Bath and West of Enrjhind 

 AgricuUural Journal," which was an admirable work, re- 

 plete with the most valuable information. The fact wai that 

 the mauageraeut of the Journcd of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society was entrusted to three gentlemen, and he had 

 never yet known the office of editor conducted as it 

 ought to be when put in commission like the Chancel- 

 lor's seal. With regard to the prizes which were to be 

 offered at their next country meeting. Cheshire, they well 

 knew, was a dairy county ; and it was a curious fact that, 

 although the Society had been nearly twenty years in ex- 

 istence, and had held 17 or 18 country meetings, they had 

 never yet had a trial of churns on a large scale. Three 

 quarts of cream was the utmost they had ever tried ; and 

 he had been informed, by persons who kept dairies, that the 

 trial of churns should be conducled on a larger scale in 

 order to be of practical use. He observed that prizes 

 were to be offered at Chester for chaff-cutters, and root- 

 slicers, and other things equally familiar, and for which 

 prizes had been given ever since the Society was established. 

 Now, these implements were just the same now as they were 

 17 3 ears ago ; and he would throw it out for the consideration 

 of the Council whether they had not better strike some of 

 these standard implements off the list, and reserve their 

 prizes for machines in which a good deal was yet to be done 

 before they attained perfection. It would not have been neces- 

 sary for him to make these observatioua if they had not fol- 

 lowed the practice described at the Salisbury Meeting, when it 

 was said that their Council were elected for life, and elected 

 their succesiors (No, no). He did not mean to say it was in 

 the charter, but it was, no doubt, practically the case. In con- 

 clusion, he said he believed that if they had a larger infusion 

 of gentlemen from the different counties in the Council, 

 instead of continuing on the list a number of gentlemen who 

 could not attend, it would popularise the Society and render 

 it as flourishing as it ought to be. 



The Chairman said it was highly desirable that reports 

 like Professor Simonda' should appear sooner. The sooner 

 they were published the better. He was under the impression 

 that notice of the Wednesday meetings was always given a 

 month beforehand. 



The Secretary said the Wednesday meetings were entirely 

 dependent on casual communications. Whenever any com- 

 munication of importance had been received, notice had been 

 given of it. 



The motion for adopting the report waa then put, and 

 agreed to. 



Mr. Raymond Barker then read the balance-sheet of 

 receipts and expenditure fur the half-year ending the 30th of 

 June last. 



Half-yearly Account from the 1st of January to the 30th 

 of June, 1857. 



Receipis during the half-year. £ s. d. 



Balanceinthehandsof the Bankers, Jan. 1,1857 438 12 8 

 Petty Cash Balance in the hands of the Sec- 

 retary, Jan. 1, 1857 17 1 8 



Dividends on Stock 129 14 1 



Governors' Life-Compositions 90 



Governors'' Annual Subscriptions 569 



Members' Life-Compositions 403 



Members' Annual Subscriptions 1836 5 



Journal Receipts 161 13 



Sale of old Catalogues 2 3 



Country Meeting Receipts : — 



Salisbury 1500 



£5147 9 5 



Payments during the half-year. £ s. d. 



Permanent Charges 165 



Taxes and Rates 19 9 



Establishment Charges * 1221 6 9 



Postage and Carriage 26 3 11 



Advertisements 14 5 



Journal Payments 1098 11 7 



Essay Prizes 150 



Veterinary Grant 200 



Chemical Grant 150 



Chemical Investigations 100 



Country Meeting Payments : — 



Chelmsford 461 10 



Salisbury 525 6 



Subscriptions, over-paid by Bankers, returned .. 4 



Sundry items of Petty Cash 3 10 11 



Balance in the hands of the Bankers, June 30, 



1857 989 8 10 



Petty Cash Balance in the hands of the Sec- 

 retary, June 30, 1857 16 6 7 



£5147 9 5 

 (Signed) Thomas Raymond Barker,"] 



Chairman, \ Finance Commitlee. 



C.B. Challoner, I 



Henry Wilson, J 



Examined, audited, and found correct this 4th day of De- 

 cember, 1857. 



(Signed) George L Raymond ■\^^^ailors on the part of 

 Barker, ^ ^,^^ ^^^-^^^ 



William Astbury, J 



Country Meeting Account, Salisbury, 1857. 

 Dr. 



Subscription from Salisbury 



Prizes offered by the Local Committee for 

 Hamps. Down Sheep 



Prize offered by M. Dutrone for polled bull .. 



Non-members' fees for the entry of live-stock. . 



Non-members' fees for the entry of implements 



Implement-makers' payment for shedding re- 

 quired 



Admisssions to show and trial-yards . . 



Sale of catalogues of implements and stock 



Fines for the non-exhibition of live-stock 



Sale of dinner-tickets . . 



Sale of Council-badges . . 



Balance, chargeable on the general funds of the 

 Society 



Cr. 



Showy ard and trial works, poultry-coops, hurdles, 

 entrance- turnstiles 



Trial-land for steam-cultivators, compensations, 

 water supply, cooperage .. 



Yardmen, fieldmsn, clerks, money-takers, door- 

 keepers, catalogue-sellers . . . . . . 



Judges of the show 



Judges' refreshments 



Veterinary inspector and assistant 



Consulting engineer 



Hire of farm-horses 



Metropolitan police 



Green-food 



Hay and straw . . 



Poultry food 



Coals, seeds, manure, and cream, for trials 



Ropes, bags, padlocks, brooms. . 



Stationery 



Advertisements.. .. .. .. 



Postage, carriage, messengers . . 



Programmes of the meeting 



• Under this head is included the sum of £703 4s. lid, paM 

 on account of repairs required in the liouse of the Society, 



