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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



fi'om the Journal Committee a recommendation, which 

 the Council adopted, that prizes should be offered by 

 the Society for Reports on the Farming of Shropshire 

 and the Channel Islands. 



Steam-Cultivators. — On the motion of Mr. 

 Fisher Hobbs, seconded by Mr. Jonas Webb, the 

 Council decided that, in order to give a full and effi- 

 cient trial of the steam-cultivators at Salisbury compe- 

 ting for the Society's undivided prize of £500, the offer 

 made to them of 38 acres of suitable land for that pur- 

 pose now under clover, in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of Salisbury, should be accepted on the terms 

 proposed, namely, at ^^190. The Mayor, at the re- 

 quest of the Council, undertook the charge of seeing 

 every preparation duly made, not only for the trials by 

 which this class of implements will have the opportu- 

 nity of being thoroughly tested, but also for the ar- 

 rangements by which the public may have free admis- 

 sion to the ground, and be enabled most conveniently 

 to witness the trials. 



Judges.— Sir Archibald Macdonald, Bart., Chair- 

 man of the Judges' Selection and Recommendation 

 Committees, presented reports recommending the 

 judges respectively required in the departments of Live 

 Stock and Implements at the ensuing Salisbury meet- 

 ing. These reports were unanimously adopted by the 

 Council. 



Stewards. — On the motion of the Mayor of Salis- 

 bury, seconded by Mr. Jonas, Mr. Philip Pinckney 

 Cother, of Salisbury, was unanimously appointed the 

 steward of poultry for the ensuing country meeting; 

 and on the motion of Mr. Wren Hoskyns, seconded by 

 Mr. Milward, Colonel Towneley, of Towneley Park, 

 Lancashire, was unanimously appointed steward-elect 

 of implements for the same occasion. 



Dinner. — On the motion of Mr. Milward, seconded 

 by Mr. Simpson, the Council accepted the offer made 

 to them by the Mayor and Corporation of Salisbury, of 

 the Council Chamber in the City, for the purpose of a 

 dinner on the Wednesday of the week of meeting ; and 

 gave power to the Salisbury Committee of the Society 

 to carry out the requisite details. 



Water Meadows. — The Mayor of Salisbury re- 

 ported that he had completed the arrangements referred 

 to him by the Council, by which the farm-husbandry 

 and plan of irrigation in the neighbourhood of Salis- 

 bury might be inspected by the members on the occa- 

 sion of the ensuing country meeting. The Hon. Sidney 

 Herbert had placed his Home Farm at the disposal of 

 the Society, and Messi's. Rawlence and Squaiey were 

 prepared to offer every facility in their power for ren- 

 dering tlie inspection of the Water-Meadows in tlieir 

 occupation interesting and instructive to the members 

 both personally on the meadows themselves, and after- 

 wards by the delivery of a lecture by Mr. Squarey on 

 the details of their construction, management, and ad- 

 vantages. It had been proposed that the visitors should 



meet at Wilton Park at twelve o'clock on Tuesday, or 

 on such other day of the week as might be arranged 

 and published in the programme. 



Special Council. — The Council ordered, agreeably 

 with the bye-laws, that a Special Meeting should be 

 held on the following Wednesday at one o'clock, for the 

 final settlement of all details connected with the Salis- 

 bury Meeting, in order that the programme might be 

 completed and published. 



Adjourned to the Weekly Meeting at 12 o'clock on 

 July 8. 



A Weekly Council was held on the 8th of July ; 

 present, Colonel Challoner, Trustee, in the Chair, Earl 

 of Powis, Lord Berners, Lord Walsingham, Count 

 Esterhazy, Hon. A. Leslie Melville, Sir Charles Morgan, 

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

 Archibald Macdonald, Bart., Mr. Aytoun, Mr. 

 Raymond Barker, Mr. Hodson Barrow, M.P., Mr. 

 Chadwick, Mr. J. Hodgett Foley, M.P., Mr. Eliott 

 Fuller, Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, Mr. Jon. Gray, Mr. 

 Fisher Hobbs, Mr. Manning, Mr. Mundy, Mr. Pain 

 (Mayor of Salisbury), Mr. Parkins, Mr. Allen Ransome, 

 Mr. Scott, Mr. Smallbones (of Hungary), Dr. A.Thomp- 

 som (U. S.), Colonel Towneley, Mr. Trimmer, Mr. 

 Tyler (U. S.), Lieut. Uggla (of Sweden), Mr, H. Uggla 

 (of Sweden), Mr. Vyner, Mr. Jonas Webb, Mr. Burch 

 Western, Mr. Wilson (Stowlangtoft), and Mr. Maitland 

 Wilson. 



Pacific Guano. — Professor Way transmitted a 

 report on his chemical investigation of the samples of 

 guano from islands in the Pacific, forwarded by Mr. 

 Rowlandson to the Foreign Office, from which it 

 appeared that the guano in question contained only one- 

 half per cent, of ammonia, and was, in Professor Way's 

 opiuion, of comparatively small value, entirely dissimilar 

 to the produce of the Chincha Islands, and not worth 

 the expense of importation into this country. 



Madrid Meeting. — A letter was read from the 

 Board of Trade, announcing that an Agricultural Exhi- 

 bition would take place this year at Madrid, and en- 

 closing a list of the prizes offered ; among which are 

 those for English cattle, horses, sheep, and pigs, of pure 

 or mixed breed, 



Messrs. Cartwright, of Clarendon Terrace, New- 

 ington Green, submitted specimens of a manure con- 

 stituted of animal gelatine and earthy matter ; and 

 Messrs. Chissnell and Son, of Colchester, transmitted a 

 specimen of their Giant Rye. 



Special Council, July 8. — Colonel Challoner, 

 Trustee, in the chair, at which details connected with 

 the arrangements of the ensuing Salisbury Meeting were 

 taken into consideration, and instructions issued in 

 reference to their completion. 



The Council stands adjourned to a special meeting at 

 Salisbury, on Friday, the 24th of July. 



