B90 



THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE, 



ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 



A Monthly Council was held on Wednesday, April 

 4th, Lord Walsingham, President, in the chair. Pre- 

 sent : Lord Tredegar, Sir Watkin W. Wynn, Bart., 

 M.P.; Sir John Villiers Shelley, Bart., M.P.; the Hon. 

 W. G. Cavendish, M.P. ; Mr. Amos, Mr. T.Raymond 

 Barker, Mr. C. Barnett, Mr. Barthropp, Mr. Bram- 

 ston, M.P., Colonel Challoner, Mr. Exall, Mr. Bran- 

 dreth Gibbs, Mr. Hamond, Mr. Howard, Mr. Fisher 

 Hobbs, Mr. Wren Hoskyns, Mr. Hudson (of Castle- 

 acre), Mr. Humbertson, M.P., Mr. C.Lawrence, Mr. 

 Pain, Mr. Shuttleworth, Professor Voelcker, and Mr. 

 Jonas W"ebb, 



The following new members were elected :— < 

 Arkcoll, Thomas, Langley, Eastbourne. 

 Arnold, Rev. Richard Aldous, Ellough, Beccles. 

 Bigge, Charles Selby, Linden, Morpeth. 

 Bosley, John, Lower Leyde, Hereford. 

 Cadle, Clement, Ballingham Hall, Ross. 

 Carnegie, David, Eastbury, Watford, Herts. 

 Chinnery, John, Woolton, Milton, Lymington. 

 Clayton, John, Hook, Kingston, Surrey. 

 Hay, Charlea Anderson, York Terrace, Regent's Park. 

 James, James William, Mappowder, Blandford. 

 Johnstone, John Cartledge Hirst, Hardwicke Hall, Castle 



Eden, Durham. 

 Kearsey, Charles, Glewstone, Ross. 

 Keep, Richard, Aldermaston, Reading. 

 Lay, John Watson, 3, Savage Gardens, Tower Hill. 

 Martiu, Edward Hall, jun., Barr Hill, Madeley, Staffs. 

 Miller, Seymour, Bfadpole, Bridport. 

 Murton, Frederick, Smeeth, Asliford. 

 Neate, John Reeks, Northingtoa Farm, Overton, Hants. 

 Prodgera, Herbert, Ayott Rectory, Welwyn. 

 Rigg, Joseph, Fillougley, Coventry. 

 Sladen, Joseph, Hartsbourne Manor, Bushey. 

 Smith, Felix, Upton Bishop, Ross. 

 Snowden, William, Longford, Gloucester. 

 Taylor, Robert Parker, Adelaide Place, London Bridge. 

 Tindall, Frederick, Preston, Faversham.j 

 Tomlia, J. Currer, Manchester. 

 Towell, Samuel, Rutland House, Newmarket. 

 Wigmore, John, Weston-uader-Penyard, Ross. 

 Woolf, Thomas, Staadon Hall, Eccleshall. Staffs. 



Finances.— Mr. Barnett, Chairman of the Finance 

 Committee, presented their report, by which it appeared 

 that the current cash balance in the hands of the bankers 

 was £4,926 18s. 2d. The Secretary's receipts during 

 the past month had been duly examined by the commit- 

 tee and by Messrs. Quiltcr, Ball, and Co., the profes- 

 sional accountants. 



Implement Committee. — Colonel Challonei, 



chairman, reported that they had had an interview with 

 certain implement makers who requested information as 

 to the conditions stated in the Prize Sheet under Art. 

 3, and who were informed that the combined finishing 

 machine does not come within this year's Prize Sheet, 

 as settled by the Council in 1858. 



Canterbury Committee. — Mr. T. Raymond 

 Barker presented the report, which recommended an 

 alteration in the mode of printing the Catalo^'ues, and 

 that the Implement Catalogue be charged at Is. 6d. 

 each. 



The Secretary was directed to write to the Local 

 Secretary, pressing him to carry forward the construc- 

 tion of the approaches to the Show Yard. 



On the motion of Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, seconded by 

 Mr. T. Raymond Barker, the subject of the visits of 

 the Veterinary Inspector was referred to the Veterinary 

 Committee, with a request that they will report whether 

 any alterations can advantageously be effected whereby 

 more numerous applications for his services would come 

 from members of the Society, as suggested in the report 

 from the Governors of the Royal Veterinary College. 



On the motion of Mr. Hudson, seconded by Mr. Ha- 

 mond, Dr. Augustus Voelcker, Consulting Chemist to 

 the Society, was unanimously elected an Honorary 

 Member of the Society. 



Memorials, accompanied by pressing and cordial let- 

 ters from the authorities, were received from Doncaster, 

 Harrogate, Hull, Leeds, Wakefield, and York, on the 

 subject of the country meeting to be held next year in 

 Yorkshire. An Inspection Committee consisting of the 

 Hon. W. G. Cavendish, M.P., Sir W. Wms. Wynn, Bart., 

 M.P., Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, and 

 Mr. Mil ward, were appointed, with a request that they 

 would visit the proposed sites and report on their suit- 

 ableness or otherwise for the purposes of the Society by 

 the next Monthly Council. 



A copy of the Magnetical and Meteorological Obser- 

 vations made at the Observatory in Bombay during the 

 year 1857 was received from the Secretary of State for 

 India in Council, and ordered to be placed in the library. 



The current nuaibers of the Society's Journal were 

 du-ected to be sent to the Agricultural Society of the 

 State of Wisconsin, la exchange for the Transactions of 

 that body. 



Leave of absence was granted to the Secretary for a 

 week. 



The Council then adjourned over Easter week till 

 their Weekly Meeting on Wednesday, the 18th April. 



AGRICULTURE IN AUSTRALIA. 



Agricultural— or rather perhaps pastoral— operations in 

 Australia seem about to undergo a change. Everyone must 

 be familiar with the " renderinp down" of sheep and beeves 

 for the sake of the tallow, the flesh being thrown away as 

 valueless. Where the aaimala can be got to market, that 

 is to say where the localities in which they are raised are 

 not wild and inaccessible, they will now be no longer con- 

 temptuously cast aside; on the contrary, the probability 

 appears now to be that they can scarcely be produced in 

 BufRcient numbers to meet the deraapd. 



In New South Wales the population is still sparse and 

 scattered, but in Victoria it is marching on with astounding 

 rapidity. The little despised settlement of Port Philip, 

 which 'in 1850 could boast of only 25,000 or 30,000 inhabi- 

 tants, has in 1860 expanded into a community of between 

 500,000 and 550,000 souls; and the smiling wildernefs, 

 with which Sir Thomas Mitchell was so pleased in 1835 

 that he styled it "Australia Felix," has justified the pre- 

 scient anticipations of that able officer by becoming the 

 home of thousands and a resort of all nations. Men must 



