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Istly, The bed of the Mere (about 1,600 acres), covered with 

 3 feet of silt, and capable of bearing iirst-rate crops. 



2ndly, On Mr. Wells's estate, about 1,000 acres, adjacent to 

 the Mere, which from ilooda had received such 

 Btnalier depcsits on the peat as gave them a mode- 

 rate value for cultivation, though subject to great 

 injury from spring frosts. 



3rdly, A tract of about 900 acres belonging to Mr. Wells, 

 remote from the Mere, with little or uo deposit from 

 floods, which is now almost valueless, though sub- 

 ject to drainage taxes. 



Mr. Frere gave information as to the work now in 

 progress for claying the land of this last-named kind 

 from the bed of the Mere, by aid of ii railroad nearly 1 

 mile in length ; and concluded with a few observations 

 on the mode of culture to be adopted prior and subse- 

 quent to the dressing of clay. He also expi'essed a wish 

 that landowners or occupiers in the north or west, who 

 had undertaken or contemplated similar works, would 

 put themselves into communication with the Society, 

 anticipating mutual benefit from the comparison of the 

 experience of the past and of designs for the future, 

 drawn from different localities. 



Lord Berners spoke of the great crops grown on re- 

 claimed lands 30 miles east of the Mere, and of the 

 consequent rise in value to such an extent that land 

 was now let for £3 10s. per acre which had been pur- 

 chased for about that same sum. 



Colonel MacDoual, of Logan, spoke of similar im- 

 provements effected in the south-west of Scotland, par- 

 ticularly on a hungry iron-bound gravel soil, " which, 

 when dressed with 2 inches of clay, had been converted 

 into pasture, the feed of which was worth from £2 to 

 £?> 10s. per acre. 



Tiie Council then adjourned. 



A Monthly Council was held on the 2nd May, Lord 

 Walsingham, President, in the chair. Present : Lord 

 Berners, Lord Fevershani, Lord Leigh, Lord Tredegar, 

 the Hon. Colonel Hood, the Hon. W. G. Cavendish, 

 M.P. ; the Hon. A. Vernon, Sir John V. Shelley, 

 Bart,, M. P.; Sir J. V. B.Johnstone, Bart., M.P. ; 

 Mr. Amos, Mr. Barnett, Mi". Raymond Barker, Mr. 

 BiU'thropp, Mr. Bramston, M.P. ; Mr. BrandreUi, 

 Mr. Caldwell, Colonel Challoner, Mr. Exall, Mr. 

 Brandreth Gibbs, Mr. Harnond, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, 

 Mr. Chandos W. Hoskyns, IMr. James Howard, Mr. 

 Hudson (of Castleacre), Mr. Humberston, M.P. ; Mr. 

 Jonas, Mr. C. Lav/rence, Mr. Milward, Mr. Pope, Mr. 

 Shuttleworth, Professor Simonds, Mr. PI. S. Thomp- 

 son, M.P.; Mr. Torr, Mr. Turner (of Barton), Profes- 

 sor Voelcker, Mr. Jonas Webb, and Mr. Wilson (of 

 Stowlangtoft). 



The following new members were elected— 

 Bayley, Thomas, Lenton, Nottingham 

 Bywater, R. T., Coniston, Windermere 

 Dowden, Thomas, Hoke Farm, Bere Regis 

 England, Richard, Binhara, Wells, Norfolk 

 Gascoyne, William W., Sittingbourne 

 Keeling, Charles R, Yew Tree Farm, Penkridge 

 Marriott. Rev. James P., Cotesbach, Lutterworth 

 Masfen, Robert Hanbury, Pendeford, Wolverhampton 

 Moxon, William, 3, St. Martin's-place, London, W. 

 Ostler, John, jun , Walrond Park, Isle Brewers, Taunton. 

 Page, Edward, Bedford 

 Patron, Simon, 19, Bedford-place, Russell-square, Ijondon, 



W. C. 

 Rich, Stiles, Didmarton, Chippenham 

 Robinson, Isaac, Iron Foundry, Halesworth 

 Royston, Viscount, Winipole, Cambridgeshire 

 Shaw, John, Britannia House, Banbury 

 Yooraer, George Edgar, Hoaden House, Ash, Sandwich. 



Finances. — Mr. Barncft, Chairman of the Finance 

 Committee, presented their report, by which it ap- 

 poaped that the current C9sh balance in the hands of 



the bankers was £5,429 12s. 7d. The Secretary's re- 

 ceipts during the past month had been duly examined 

 by Messrs. Quiltcr, Ball, and Co., and were found cor- 

 rect. 



Implement Committee. — Col. Challoner, chair- 

 man, reported the recommendation of a letter to various 

 implement makers, informing them that the combined 

 finishing threshing machine does not come within this 

 year's prize sheet. The report was adopted. 



Reporting Committee. — Mr. Thompson, M.P., 

 presented the report, to which the numerous body of 

 the Committee had unanimously agreed, after a long 

 and careful consideration of the subject. They recom- 

 mended that the Secretary should prepare notes of the 

 business transacted at the Monthly Councils, the prin- 

 cipal grounds of the decisions arrived at, with the num- 

 bers of the majority and minority in each case, and 

 should furnish the newspaper press with a report of the 

 proceedings as soon us practicable after the rising of 

 the Council, and that the substance of reports received 

 and adopted by the Council should also be given ; and 

 in cases where any written paper is read or laid before 

 the Council, which is of too great length for immediate 

 insertion in the proceedings, it shall be referred to the 

 Editor to report upon at the following Weekly Council. 



Country Meeting of 1861. — The report of the 

 Inspection Committee having been read, deputations 

 from the following cities and towns of Yorkshire were 

 received, and very great interest was excited by the 

 numerous and influential body of noblemen and gentle- 

 men attending to advocate the interests of the various 

 places with which they were connected, and their desir- 

 ability for the purposes of the Society : — 



Doncaster Deputation. — The Earl Fitzwilliam; Mr. 

 W. B. Wrightaon, M.P. ; Mr. G. H. Packe, M.P., Vice- 

 Chairman of the Great Northern Railway ; Mr. F. T. Fol- 

 jambe, M.P. ; Mr. Wra. Aldam, Frickley Hall, Doncaster; 

 Mr. Thomas Vv'^alker, Doncaster ; Mr. John Hatfield, Mayor 

 of Doncaster ; Mr. Alderman Diuihill, Doncaster ; Mr. George 

 Hutfield, Doncaster ; Mr. L. B. Mason, Town Clerk, Doncas- 

 ter; Mr, John Butterfield, Steward to the Town Council, 

 Doncaster ; Mr. William Tindall, Wheatley, near Doncaster 

 (with respect to the Land); Mr. Seymour Clarke, General 

 Manager, Great Northern Railway. 



Harrogate Deputation. — John Greenwood, Esq., 

 M.P.; Basil Thomas Woodd, E^q., M.P. ; Thomas Collins, 

 Esq., M.P. ; George Kennion, E^q., M.D. ; Mr. Samuel Powell, 

 Land Surveyor. 



Hull Deputation. — The Mayor of Hull (Z. C. Pearson, 

 Esq.); the ex-Mayor (Martin Samnelson, Esq.); Wm. 

 Wright, Esq. (Sigglesthorne), Deputy Chairman of the Hull 

 Dock Company and landowuer; Mr. Alderman Bannister, 

 shipowner and landowner; Mr. Alderman Moss, shipowner ; 

 Mr. Councillor Harrison, wine merchant; Mr. Councillor 

 Dannatt, shipowner and landowner; the Town Clerk of Hull 

 (Robert Wells, Esq.). Accompanied by the Lord Hotham, 

 M.r. ; Lord Ashley, M.P. ; the Hon. Admiral Duncombe, 

 M.P. ; James Clay, Esq., M.P.; Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. ; 

 James Hall, Esq., Scarborough. 



Deputation for Leeds.— Ijceds: Mr. Beckett, to in- 

 troduce ; the Mayor (Wm. Kelsall); the Hon. George Lascelles, 

 Harewood ; the two Members, Mr. Baines and Mr. Beecroft ; 

 Magistrates, Sir Peter Fairbairn and John H. Shaw; Alder- 

 men Kitson, George, and Botterill ; Councillor Wright. Brad- 

 ford : the Mayor (Mr. Wright) ; the two Members, Mr. 

 Wickham and Mr. Salt. Halifax : the Mayor (Mr. Welsh) ; 

 Mr. Staiisfield, MP. for Halifjx. Huddersfield : the High 

 Constable, Mr. Wright Mellor. Ripon: the jNIayor (Mr. 

 Kendall). Scarborough : Mr. J. Dent Dent, M.P. Keighley : 

 Mr. Ambler, Edwin Eddison, Hon. Secretary. 



Wakefield Deputation. — The Mayor of Wakefield 

 (Mr. Henry Brown); Mr. Councillor Lamb; Mr. Thomas 

 Cartwri^ht Johnson, of Chevet ; Mr. Wordsworth, Stump 

 Cross und Oakenshaw ; Mr. M. E. Naylor, Wakefield ; Mr. 

 Edwin Green, Harecroft, Members of the Wakefield Farmers' 

 Club ; and Mr. William Barratt, Secretary to tl'e Farinern ' 

 Cl'ib.' 



