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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



(Mayor of Cliester), Mr. Ilutton, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. 

 Milward, Mr. Pain, Mr. Pope, Mr. Shuttleworth, Prof. 

 Simonds, Mr. Robert Smith, Mr. Banks Stanhope, 

 M.P., Mr. Torr, Colonel Towneley, Mr. Turner (of 

 Barton), Prof. Voelcker, Mr, Yyner, and Mr. Jonas 

 Webb. 



The Earl of Portsmouth, of Hurstborne Park, Hamp- 

 shire, and Lord Londesborough, of Grimstone, York- 

 shire, were elected Governors of theSociet}'. 



The following new-Members were elected : 



Barchard, Francis, Horstead Place, Uckfipld, Sussex. 



Bevan, Beckford, Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk. 



Buchanan. Walter, Lower Babinjiton, Birkenhead. 



Burnett. Grfg^ory, Dee Cottage, Flint. 



Chadwick, WiUiain, Burlish LTlaje, Stourport, Worcestershire. 



Darling, Jnin, Beau-Desert, Rug>>ley, St»ffordshire. 



Eiiertoii, William Tatton. M.P , Tatton Park, Kuutsford. 



Fenn. John, Dry-Drayton, CambriHgeshire. 



Gubbina, John Pan'oii, Pihual, Mold, Fliiitsliire. 



Heywood, William HeiTv,DiuihannPdrk, Altringham.Cheshire. 



Hughes, Hugh Robert, Ys'rad, Denbighshire. 



Johnson. Tnomaa, A\u,n Grange, Runcorn, Cheshire, 



Kemp, H. F., South Carlton, Lincolnshire. 



Kirby, Stephen, Mil Ilouae, Thirsk, Yorkshire. 



Minor, John, Fern Hill, MarketDrayton, Salop. 



Moore, Joseph, Wollaton House, Nottingham. 



Paine, Mrs, Farnhara, Surrey. 



Piuder, Thomas, Barroby, Grantham, Lincolnshire. 



Stone, John S., Newport, Monmouthshire. 



Way, Ije\vi3, Spencer Grange, Great Ytldham, Essex. 



West, Kev. Washbnurae, Lincoln College, Oxford. 



Willsher, Charles Wedd, Fetches Fariu, Weathersfield, Essex. 



Wise, Henry, Feltous-Brickhara, Reigate, Surrey. 



Finances. — Mr. Raymond Birker, Chairman of the 

 Finance Caramittee, presented the monthly report on 

 the accounts, from which it appeared that the current 

 cash-balance in the hands of the bankers was ^2,225, 

 and that Messrs. Williams and Co., of Chester, had 

 accepted the appointment of the local bankers of the 

 Society during the period of the Chester meeting. — 

 Mr. Wilson (of Stowiangtoft) transmitted, on the part 

 of himself, Sir John V. B. Johnstone, Bart., M.P., 

 and Mr. Fisher Hobbs, a special report of the House 

 Committee, which was unanimously adopted and con- 

 firmed. 



Chester Meeting.— Colonel Challoner presented 

 the report of the General Chester Committee, detailing 

 the satisfactory completion of the arrangements for the 

 Society's ensuing Country Meeting to be held in that 

 city in the week commencing Monday, the 19th inst. 



Dinner Tickets. — The Council decided that mem- 

 bers of the Society should be at liberty to purchase 

 dinner tickets at the office of the Society, 12, Hanover- 

 square, London, until Thursday, the loth inst. ; and 

 that any tickets remaining on hand at that date should 

 be sold to the public without reserve on the Tuesday, 

 Wednesday, and Thursday of the Show week, at the 

 Finance Department, adjoining the public entrances of 

 the Show-yard at Chester. 



Implements.— Colonel Challoner reported from the 

 Implement Committee that the question of the renewal 

 or discontinuance of the triennial arrangement for the 

 trial of implements, to be completed for the first time 

 at the Chester Meeting, and the propriety of an earlier 

 publicatiqa of the Implement Prize-sheet of the Society, 



would be taken into consideration after the autumn 

 recess, in th? first week in November. He also stated 

 that measures would be taken to aid the Society of Arts 

 in their desire to obtain the results of practical ex- 

 perience in the agricultural use of Gutta-percha ; and 

 to carry out the benevolent suggestions of the Rev. 

 W. W. Harvey, of Buckland Rectory, near Buntingford, 

 in reference to the prevention of accidents in the use of 

 agricultural machinery, by empowering the judges to 

 make special awards of medals or commendations for 

 efficient modes of guarding or shielding machinery, 

 especially when worked by steam, from contact with 

 the persons immediately engaged in attending to it 

 while at work. 



Member of Council. — On the motion of Mr. 

 Fisher Hobbs, seconded by Mr. Lawrence, Mr. James 

 Thomas, of Lidlington, Bedfordshire, was unanimously 

 elected a general member of the Council in the place of 

 the late Mr. Paine, of Farnham. 



Queries on Drainage. — On the motion of Lord 

 Walsingham, seconded by Colonel Challoner, the Council 

 resolved that the Queries on Drainage received from 

 the Board of Trade should be printed in French and 

 English, and a copy sent to each Member of the Council, 

 with a request that the answers in each case may be 

 forwarded to the Secretary by the 31st instant, for the 

 purpose of being submitted to the following Special 

 Committee, in order to enable them to present their 

 report on the subject at the next Monthly Council in 

 August., viz., Lord Walsingham, Sir John V. Shelley, 

 Bart, M.P., Colonel Challoner, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Mr. 

 Milward, and Mr. Robert Smith. 



Judges. — Colonel Challoner having presented the 

 report of the Implement Committee, Mr. Fisher Hobbs 

 the report of the Live Stock Judges Committee, and 

 the Mayor of Chester his suggestions for the Judges of 

 Cheese and Butter, the Council confirmed in each case 

 the recommendation thus made to them of Judges in 

 the several departments of the Show at the Chester 

 Meeting. 



Steward of Cattle. — On the motion of Lord 

 Walsingham, seconded by the Hon. Colonel Hood, Mr. 

 Pain, of Laverstock Hall, near Salisbury, was appointed 

 one of the Stewards of Cattle at the Chester Meeting. 



Adjournment. — On the motion of Mr. Raymond 

 Barker, the Council's sittings in London were adjourned 

 over the Chester Meeting to the first Wednesday in 

 August. 



MORAL OP THE GARDEN.— Nothing teaches patience 

 like a garden. All have to wait for the fruits of the earth. 

 Y'ou may go round and watch the opening bud from day to 

 day; but it takes its own time, and you cannot urge it on 

 faster thin it will. If forced, it is only torn to pieces. All 

 the best results of a gardeu, like those of life, are slowly but 

 regularly progressive. Each year does a work that nothing 

 but a year can do. " Learn to labour aud to wait," is one of 

 the best lessons of a garden. All that is good takes time, and 

 comes only by growth. 



