THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



519 



Finances. — Mr. Raymond Barker, Chairman of the 

 Finance Committee, presented tlie monthly report on 

 the accounts of the Society, showing a current cash- 

 balance of .£1,298 in the hands of the bankers ; and laid 

 upon the table, for the information of members, the 

 usual quarterly statements of income and expenditure, 

 and of assets and liabilities. 



Trial of Implements. — The President having 

 called the attention of the Council to the complttion 

 this year of the triennial arrangements for the trial of 

 Implements at the Country Meetings of the Society, 

 and to a consideration of the propriety of its renewal 

 or discontinuance for the future, it was carried, on the 

 motion of Mr. Fisher Hobbs, seconded by Colonel 

 Challoner, that a committee, consisting of the Members 

 of the Implement Committee, and of Mr. Howard, Mr. 

 Shuttleworth, Mr. Caldwell, Mr. Huskisson, and Mr. 

 Amos, be appointed, with power to confer with a depu- 

 tationfrom the body of the Implement Makers, and to re- 

 port to the Council at their next monthly meetingin June. 

 Eastern Counties' Railway. — On the motion of 

 Mr. Fisher Hobbs, the President undertook to address 

 a letter to the Chairman of the Eastern Counties Rail- 

 way Company, on the subject of the charges, made only 

 by that company, for live stock sent for exhibition at 

 the Country Meetings of the Society. 



Country Meeting Dinner. — On the motion of 

 Mr. Torr, seconded by Mr. Thompson, the Council 

 decided unanimously: "That in future, if any dinner 

 be held at the Country Meetings under the patronage of 

 the Society, the entire management shall be vested in 

 the local committee ; but the Council shall have the 

 option ftnd power of reserving and taking such a number 

 of tickets as it shall think fit ; and this Society shall 

 nominate the Chairman, and supply the list of toasts, 

 but shall have no other liability connected with it." 



Country Meeting of 1859. — The report of the 

 Inspection Committee having been read, and deputations 

 received from Coventry, Reading, Warwick, and Oxford, 

 the Council decided that the country meeting should be 

 held at Warwick, next year, on condition that the 

 Mayor of that city entered into the usual agreement 

 with the Secretary of the Society by the next Monthly 

 Council on the second of June. These depuations con- 

 sisted of sixty-four members, among whom we remarked 

 the following : — 



His Grace the Duke of Marlborough. 



The Lord Bishop of Oxford. 



The Rev. James Clutterbuck, M A. 



The High Shenffa of the counties of Berka., Oxford, 



and Warwick. 

 Right Hon. Edward EUice, M.P. 

 Right Hon. Edward Caidwell, M.P. 

 The Sheriff of Oxford. 

 The Mayors and Town-Clerks of Coventry, Oxford, 



Reading, and Warwick. 

 Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P. 

 Earl of Macclesfield. 

 Viscount Dillon. 

 Mr. Palmer, M.P. 

 Mr. Greave?, M.P. 

 Earl of Warwick. 

 Lord Willoughby do Broke. 

 Lord Guernsey. 

 Lord I^igh. 



Mr. Harcourt, M.P. 

 Colonel North, M.P. 

 Mr. Repton, M.P. 

 Mr. Mark Phillips. 

 Sir T. G. Skipwith, Bart. 

 Sir Paul Hunter, Bart. 

 Mr. Pigott, M.P. 



Aldermen Moore, Spiers, and Ward. 

 President, Vice-President, and Secretary of the Oxford 

 Farmers' Club, and Deputations from the Rugby, 

 and Duuchurch Association, and the Council of the 

 Birmingham Cattle Show. 

 Country-Meeting Queries. — On the motion of 

 Mr; Raymond Barker, seconded by Mr. Brandreth 

 Gibbs, a committee was appointed to revise the printed 

 queries (in use since the year 1841), and adapt them to 

 the present requirements of the Society, consisting of 

 Mr. Raymond Barker, Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, Hon. W. 

 G. Cavendish, M.P., Mr. Brandreth, Mr. Barnett, Mr. 

 Fisher Hobbs, and Mr. Milward. 



Editorship of Journal. — Mr. Jonas having 

 moved the consideration of the best course to pursue for 

 the future Editorship of the Journal, Mr. Thompson, 

 Mr. Dyke Acland, and Mr. Wren Hoskyns favoured the 

 Council by an expression of their willingness to continue 

 their Joint-Editorship provisionally until some other 

 arrangement should be made. On the motion of Mr. 

 Raymond Barker, seconded by Sir John Shelley, Bart., 

 M. P., it was carried, that the Joint-Editors be authorized 

 to expend a sum not exceeding ^300 per annum, for 

 such aid as they might require. 



Lectures. — Mr. Thompson reported from the 

 Journal Committee their recommendation that Pro- 

 fessor Henfrey should be requested to deliver a Lecture 

 before the members at the Weekly Council on Wed- 

 nesday, the 26th of May, at half-past 12 o'clock, on 

 some subject connected with Vegetable Physiology. 

 The Mayor of Chester's communication of an offer 

 from Mr. Moffat to deliver a lecture at the Chester 

 Meeting, on Atmospheric Influence in connection with 

 the Potato Disease, was referred to the Journal Com- 

 mittee. 



Distribution of Journal. — On the motion of Mr. 

 Milward, seconded by Mr. Jonas Webb, the Council 

 decided that the rule by which no governor or member 

 in arrear of subscription had a claim to receive the 

 Journal should be strictly enforced. 



Spurious Guano. — Sir John V. B. Johnstone, Bart, 

 M.P., read the following report from the Chemical 

 Committee : — 



Professor Voelcker has submitted analyses of Cotton-cake, 



containing a larger proportion of oil and flesh-forming 



matter than Linseed-cake ; and also various specimens of 



factitious guanos perfectly resembling genuine Peruvian 



guano in colour and smell, containing only from one- 



fourth to one-third of genuine Peruvian guano. He has 



also exhibited to the Committee specimens of guano from 



Kooria Mooria and the Falkland Islands, as well as from 



Ichaboe ; all inferior to the extent of from one- fourth to 



one-half of the best Peruvian guano. At the suggestion 



of the Comniittce Prof. Voelcker has undertaken to pre- 



pare a short^eport on these specimens, to be siibmitted 



to the members of the Society at the next Weekly Council. 



Chester Meeting. — Mr. Fisher Hobbs reported 



from the Chester Committee the favourable progress of 



the arrangements for the ensuing Country Meeting, to 



be held in that city in the third week of July next. 



