THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



55 



Baih and West of England Society for the En- 

 couragement OF Agriculture, Arts, Manufac- 

 tures, AND Commercs. 



Established 1777. 



Annual Meeting, Newton, 1857. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



The council report the steady increase of the society, which 

 DOW consists of about 93 governors, 41 life members, and 974 

 annual subscribers, making a total of 1,108 (since these num- 

 bers were made up a large number of new members hax'e been 

 added), being an addition to the society's ranks of 135 since 

 the last meeting. 



The society still continues to benefit by the indefatigable 

 exertions of Mr. Jonathan Gray, the able director of shedding, 

 who, in order to carry out the arrangements for the present 

 meeting, has for some time taken up his abode in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Newton. 



SOUTH wales meeting, 1858. 

 A deputation has been appointed to meet at Cardiff for 

 the purpose of inspectiug the sites, and making arrangements 

 for the meeting in South Wales. This deputation only await 

 an official communication from th.e committee of that place 

 to carry out the ol jeets of their appointment. A communi- 

 cation has since been received from R. 11. Williams, Esq., the 

 chairman of the local committee, at Cardiff, together with a 

 resolution of that committee, to the effect " That this meet- 

 ing on behalf of the town and neighbourhood of Cardiff are 

 prepared to agree to the resolution passed at the Bath and 

 West of England Agricultural Society's meeting, at Taunton, 

 oa the Slat January, 1857." 



veterinary inspector. 

 The council have engaged the services of Professor George 

 Brown, resident veterinary surgeon of the Royal Agricultural 

 College, Cirencester, to fill the office of veterinary inspector 

 for the present meeting. 



ESSAYS. 



The council report that prizes have been offered for the fol- 

 lowing subjects : 



1. Farm buildings for small farms, £20. 



2. Personal experience on a farm in the West of Englaad, 

 £20. 



3. Irrigation, £10. 



4. Sheep suited to the West of England, £15. 



5. Carts and waggons, £10. 



6. Orchards, £10. 



7. Any chemical subject calculated to assist the agricul- 

 turist, £10. 



8. Sir W. Trevelyau has also placed at the dispossil of the 

 council two special prizes for essays on the economical, phy- 

 sical, moral, and social effects of cider, more especially with 

 reference to its use in the rural districts of Somersetshire 

 and other parts of the West of England, as follows : For the 

 best and approved essay, £25 ; for the second beat, £10. 



THE exhibition. 



The entries much exceed those of any former meeting. The 

 number of exhibitors of stock department is 120. The stock 

 exhibited are 131 cattle, 470 sheep, 41 horses, 40 pigs; total, 

 682. There are 96 exhibitors of implements and other arti- 

 cles. The total number of articles entered is 1,100, including 

 eight stands of manure, and occupying a space of 2,200 feet 

 of shedding. 



The show of this year pi:esents several features of new in- 

 terest. The regulations adopted after the Tiverton meeting 



for simplifying ihe trial of implements Lave been brought into 

 full play, and are found to work admirably, insuring great 

 care and accuracy, and a thoroughly practical character in 

 testing the work of the different implements. The excellent 

 arrangements for exhibiting machinery in action cannot fail to 

 have attracted the atteutioa of visitors. It is with great sa- 

 tisfaction that the council refer to the invention, by a member 

 of their own body, of a dynamometer fur testing the power 

 consumed by thrashing and other machinery, which has been 

 found, under the supervision of Mr. Gooch, the consulting 

 engineer, assisted by Mr. Edward Easton, to give entire satis* 

 faction to the exhibitors and to the visitors . 

 railway arrangements. 

 The council are gratified to announce that the Great 

 Western, Bristol and Exeter, Midland, and South Devon 

 railways have again made the same liberal concessions of transit 

 of stock and implements as on former occasions, and that the 

 North Devon and Loudon and Souih Western railways have 

 followed their example; but they regret to add that the 

 Eastern Counties Railway have withdrawn the privilege, and 

 in conse|uence many animals have not been sent, and among 

 others three Suffolk horses. The council feel bound to offer 

 their spf cial acknowledgments to the directors of several rail- 

 ways, aud also to Mr. Dykes, of the Bristol and Exeter, and 

 Mr. Cookshott, of the South Devon, and the other officers of 

 those railways, for the facilities granted them on the present 

 occasion, and for the promptitude with which every arrange- 

 ment has been carried into effect. 



NON-COilPETING EXHIBITORS. 



The council have made a further addition to the show by 

 setting apart a portion of the yard for the use of those manu- 

 facturers who wished to ex.hibit machinery in motion, but de' 

 cline to compete for prizes. 



foreign cattle. 



The council report a communication from Robert Bruce, 

 Esq., the French and Belgian Consul at Bristol, off'ering to 

 exhibit Dutch cattle at the present meeting. This addition 

 would have been most desirable, and under ordinary circum- 

 stances the council would with pleasure receive any accession 

 to its exhibition by foreign cattle, either as competing for 

 prizes or as extra stock, but in consequence of the epidemic 

 now prevailing on the continent, as a matter of precaution de- 

 clmed to receive them iato the yard on the present occasion. 

 They, however, trust that in future no such impediment may 

 aiise to a similar extension of the exhibition. 



election of president and council, 1857-58. 



The Council suggest that Lord Courtenay be re-elected as 

 president, and requested to continue in office till a successor 

 be appointed ; that W. P. Carew, Esq., M.P., Sir M. Lopes, 

 Bart., M.P., Col. Buck, J. Tyrrell, Esq , aud Mr. Williams, of 

 Roath Court, Cardiff, be added to the list of vice-presidents. 

 The following gentlemen retire by rotation :— 



eastern division. 

 Elected. Name. Address. 



1855 Andrews, G. H., Rimpton, Sherborne. 



1855 Bailward, John, ...... Horsingtou, Wiucanton. 



1855 Bullock, George, North Coker, Yeovil. 



1855 Gillett, W. E., Taunton. 



1855 Gee, Thomas, Upton-on-Sevem. 



1855 Hancock, J. D., Halse, Taunton. 



1855 Lush, Joseph, Evcrcreech. 



1855 Morle, Thomas B., . . . . Canuington, Bridgwater. 



1855 Moysey, H. G Bathealton, Wiveliscombe. 



1855 Pitman, Samuel, Rumwell Lodge, Taunton. 



1855 Poole, Gabriel, Bridgwater. 



1855 Baker, R., Comptou Martin. 



