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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



the Journal Committee, reported the following additional 

 prizes to be offered for essays and reports sent to the 

 Secretary on or before the 1st of March, 1858 : — 

 On the Breeding of Cattle, with reference espe- 

 cially to the kind of diet, the treatment, aud 

 the condition, best calculated to ensure regular 

 fecundity and successful gestation ; and on the 

 causes which act adversely in certain seasons. £20 

 On the comparative advantages of large and 



small farms ; dairy, arable, and grazing 20 



On Manuring Grass-laud 20 



On any other agricultural subject 10 



Salisbury Meeting. — Colonel Challoner reported 

 the favourable progress of the works for the Salisbury 

 Meeting to be held in the week commencing the 20th 

 of July. 



Judges. — Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Chairman of the 

 Judges' Committee, presented the following report : — 



The Committee beg to recommend to the Council the fol- 

 lowing arrangements for the nomination and selection of the 

 Judges of Live Stock and Implements at the Salisbury 

 Meeting : — 



1. That a special advertisement be inserted in the usual 

 agricultural papers requesting Members of the Society ge- 

 nerally to send to the Secretary, by the 2Uth June, nomina- 

 tions of such persons to act as Judges in those departments 

 and on that occasion as they can certify from their personal 

 knowledge to be able and willing to act. 



2. That a special circular be addressed to each Member 

 of the Council, conveying the same request. 



3. That Exhibitors be at liberty to nominate persons for 

 Judges, but to have no voice in the nomination or selection 

 of Judges for the particular classes in which they have 

 made entries for competition. 



4. That the general list of these nominations be exhibited 

 in the Secretary's room from the 21st of June until the 1st 

 of July, for any objection to be made in writing and for- 

 warded to the Secretary. 



5. That the Council be requested to appoint a commit- 

 tee (excluding from its members all exhibitors) to select 

 from the nomination list the several judges required, and 

 which shall be requested to report its recommendations to 

 the Monthly Council on the 1st of July, when the final ap- 

 pointments will be made. 



The Council adopted this report, and appointed a com- 

 mitt;e agreeably with its recommendation. 



Agricultural Inspections. — Mr. Fisher Hobbs 

 called the attention of the Council to the great interest 

 with which the JMembers at the Exeter Meeting in- 

 spected the water-meadows of Sir Thomas Acland, at 

 Killerton, ai d of Mr. Turner, at Barton; and to the 

 additional interest which would be given to the ensuing 

 country meeting if arrangements could be made for a 

 similar inspection of the modes of irrigation practised 

 in the neighbourhood of Salisbury, as well as of other 

 objects of an agricultural character within a moderate 

 distance of that city. On the motion of Mr. Fisher 

 Hobbs, seconded by Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, the Council 

 agreed to the appointment of a committee, consisting of 

 Lord Portman, Mr. Dyke Acland, Mr. Brandreth 

 Gibbs, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, and Mr. George Turner, to 

 communicate with the Mayor on the subject of the pro- 

 posed arrangements, and to report their recommenda- 

 tions to the Monthly Council on the 1st July. 



Foreign Invitations. — On the motion of Mr. 

 Fisher Hobbs, seconded by Mr. Bramston, M.P., the 

 Secretary was directed to address invitations, on the 

 part of the Couacil, to the Minister of Agriculture of 



France and the Agricultural authorities of Vienna, in 

 the hope that the Society might be honoured by their 

 attendance and co-operation at the Salisbury Meeting. 



Lectures. — On the motion of Sir John Shelley, 

 Bart., M.P. , seconded by Mr. Milward, it was ordered 

 that in consequence of Professor Way not being perfectly 

 recovered from the effects of his recent illness, there 

 should be no lecture delivered on that evening. 



On the motion of Colonel Challoner, seconded by 

 Sir John Shelley, Bart., M.P., it was ordered that Pro- 

 fessor Simonds' Lecture on Cattle- Murrain should be 

 delivered before the Members of the Society at one 

 o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday the 17th of June, 

 and that free access be given on that occasion to the 

 Members of the Highland and Agricultural Society of 

 Scotland an d the Royal Agricultural I mprovement Society 

 of Ireland. 



A Weekly Council was held on the 10th of June : 

 present, Mr. Raymond Barker, V.P., in the chair ; 

 Earl of Essex, Mr. Raymond Barker (of Fairford), 

 Mr. H. B. Raymond Barker, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Caven- 

 dish, Mr. Chadwick, Judge French (of New Hampshire, 

 U.S.), Mr. Glegg, Mr. Goold, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Mr. 

 Key, Mr. Majendie, Mr. Henry Manning, Mr. Stephen 

 Mills, Mr. Orlebar, Mr. Pain (Mayor of Salisbury), 

 Mr. Parkins, Mr. Pocock, M. Rasch (of Hanover), Mr. 

 Slaney, M.P., Colonel Towneley, Mr. Treherne, Mr. 

 Trimmer, and Mr. Wilson (of Stowlangtoft). 



Sewerage-Manure in France. — Mr. Chadwick, 

 C.B., called the attention of the Council to the Trial- 

 works in Paris on the application of sewer-manure, and 

 submitted a communication which, through want of 

 space, we are reluctantly compelled to postpone. The 

 Council expressed to Mr. Chadwick their best thanks 

 for the trouble he had so kindly taken in bringing before 

 them these results of the application of liquid-manure 

 in France. 



The Earl of Clarendon transmitted communications 

 on guano-deposits on islands in the Pacific ocean, re- 

 ceived from Mr. Thomas Rowlandson, at present residing 

 at San Francisco, with a request that the specimen of 

 the guano forwarded to his Lordship might be analyzed. 

 — Messrs. Burgess and Key stated that a new liquid- 

 manure hose had been introduced to their notice, ap- 

 parently composed of India-rubber and canvas, and of a 

 much cheaper character than the ordinary hose, the 

 price for the new hose (of two inches internal diameter) 

 being only Is. 4d. per yard, while the common hose is Ss. 

 They also stated that they had received samples of 

 cotton hose from America, which could be sold at a price 

 one-third less than that now in use, namely, at Is. 4d. 

 per yard (of two inches internal diameter). — M. Revel 

 communicated a copy of the work detailing his mode of 

 obtaining Truffles. 



The Council adjourned to their weekly meeting at 

 twelve o'clock on Wednesday, the 17th instant, when 

 Mr. Hartas and Mr. Chadwick would detail their expe- 

 rience in the employment of horse-powers, and Prof. 

 Simonds, at one o'clock on the same day, would deliver 

 a lecture on the cattle-murrain abroad. 



