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mercially engaged in the manufacture of any substance 

 for sale, 



Chester Meeting. — Lord Portman, Chairman of 

 the General Chester Committee, presented the monthly 

 report of the operations and arrangements connected 

 with the ensuing Country Meeting in that city, now in 

 a favourable train for completion ; and submitted for 

 the approval of the Council the programme for the 

 occasion. 



Implements. — Colonel Challoner, Chairman of the 

 Implement Committee, reported the progress of the 

 arrangements in connection with the various topics re- 

 ferred to the Committee by the Council. 



Warwick Meeting. — The Mayor of Warwick 

 having transmitted to the Council the agreement signed 

 by himself on behalf of that Borough under the great 

 seal of the corporation, the Council authorised the Se- 

 cretary to sign the agreement on their behalf, agreeably 

 with the special clause of the Charter, and under the 

 great seal of the Society. 



Adjourned to June 9th. 



A Weekly Council was held on Wednesday, the 

 9th of June : present, Lord Berners, President, in the 

 Chair, Duke of Marlborough, Hon. Colonel Nelson 

 Hood, Hon. William George Cavendish, M.P., Mr. 

 Raymond Barker, Mr. George Davey, Mr. Dent, M.P., 

 Mr. Garrett, Mr. Glegg, Mr. Hancock, Mr. Holland, 

 M.P., Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Mr. Majendie, Mr. Mundy, 

 Prof. Simonds, Mr. Burch Western, and Mr. Wilson, 

 of Stowlangtoft. 



Prize Essay. — Mr. Thompson, Chairman of the 

 Journal Committee, reported the following adjudica- 

 tion : — 



To Edward Bowly, of Siddingtoa House, Cirencester, 

 the prize of £20, for his Essay on the Management of 

 Breeding Cattle. 



Communications were received : — 1. From Mr. 

 Samuel Osier, of Great Yarmouth, transmitting a 

 specimen of Fish-guano. 2. From Mr. Hartley, of 

 Lille, transmitting a specimen of the Sorgho Plant, 

 used in the North of France as green food for cattle. 

 3. From Mr. Bright, of Teddesley Park Farm, Penkridge, 

 reporting the successful application of steam cultiva- 

 tion. 4. From Mr. Bartholomew, of Wapping, contro- 

 verting the received opinions of Veterinary Professors on 



the condition of the hoof of the horse, in motion and 

 at rest. T). From Dr. Voelcker, giving the names and 

 addresses of merchants from whom the specimens of 

 Cotton-cake analyzed by him had been obtained, namely, 

 the first from Messrs. Grieves and Co., of Mark-lane, 

 London (price £7 5s.), and the second from Messrs. 

 Baty and Searight, of Liverpool (£6 10s.). 6. From 

 the Baron de Cetto, Transactions of the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Society of Bavaria; and 7. From Prof. Way, a 

 copy of the Preliminary Report of the Sewage of Towns 

 Commission, of which he is a member. 



Prof. Simonds, the Veterinary-Inspector of the 

 Society, delivered the first part of his lecture on the 

 Composition of the Blood, and the Diseases with which 

 it is connected, illustrating the details of his explanations 

 by means of coloured diagrams on a large scale. On 

 the motion of Mr. Henry Wilson, seconded by Mr. 

 Burch Western, the best thanks of the meeting were 

 proposed to Prof. Simonds for the clear, luminous, and 

 interesting lecture he had then delivered ; and the mo, 

 tion, being put to the meeting by his Grace the Duke of 

 Marlborough, was carried unanimously. — Pref, Simonds 

 will deliver the concluding part of his lecture on the 16 th 

 June. 



A Weekly Council was held on Wednesday, the 

 16th of June : present. Colonel Challoner, Trustee, in 

 the Chair, Hon. Colonel Nelson Hood, Hon. Wm. 

 Geo. Cavendish, M.P., Mr. Caldwell, Mr. Humberstou 

 (Mayor of Chester), Mr. Parkins, Professor Simonds, 

 Mr. Burch Western, Mr. Wilson (of Stowlangtoft), and 

 Mr. Reginald Wynniatt. 



Sir Emerson Tennent communicated to the Council, 

 from the Board of Trade, a series of queries on the 

 subject of drainage, received through the Foreign Office 

 from the French Government. The Council took these 

 queries into their consideration, and postponed the 

 completion of the replies to be sent to them until the 

 following week. 



On the motion of the Hon. W. G. Cavendish, M.P., 

 seconded by the Hon. Colonel Hood, the second part 

 of Professor Simonds's lecture was postponed for a fort- 

 night in order to give the members of the Society an 

 opportunity, by more extended notice, of being present 

 at its delivery. 

 Adjourned to June 23. 



THE CULTIVATION OF BEANS. 



The philosopher who warned his disciples to 

 " abstain from beans," never calculated on having fol- 

 lowers in agricultural England. IVot that we mean to 

 say the rare old Hampshire dish of savoury, pink- 

 skinned, gi-een-fleshed "broad beans," and the greasy 

 accompaniment of " bacon," are being anywhere vitu- 

 perated against. No. But there is one sort, the 

 winter bean, that has unluckily earned a bad name ; 

 while, indeed, beans in general are hardly cultivated to 

 the extent they might be. 



Now in a cyclopaedia, prize essay, or calendar oi 

 operations, it is usual to find beans and peas treated of 

 together as " pulse crops ;" but excepting on compara- 

 tively light or loamy land, where the management is 

 much the same for both, there is too great a difference 

 in the preparation of the land, the time and manner of 

 sowing, the after-management, and, indeed, in the 

 place and purpose of the bean and pea crops in the ro- 

 tation, to admit of the same " directions"' being suffi- 

 cient for both. And no description of corn is grown 



