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THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 



The Council resumed their sittings, after the autumn- 

 recess, on Wednesday the 4 th of November, when a 

 monthly meeting was held : present, Lord Berners, 

 President, in the Chair, Lord Southampton, Lord Port- 

 man, Sir Charles Gould Morgan, Bart., Mr. Dyke 

 Acland, Mr. Raymond Barker, Mr. Barnett, Mr. 

 Bramston, M.P., Mr. Caldwell, Mr. Cavendish, Colonel 

 Challoner, Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, Mr. Fisher Hobbs, 

 Mr. Wren Hoskyns, Mr. James Howard, Mr. Lawes, 

 Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Milward, Mr. Shuttleworth, Pro- 

 fessor Simonds, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Torr, Professor 

 Way, Mr. Jonas Webb, and Mr. Wilson of Stowlang- 

 toft. 



The names of 23 candidates for election at the next 

 meeting were read. 



Finances. — Mr. Raymond Barker, Chairman of 

 the Finance Committee, presented the report on the 

 accounts of the Society to the end of the previous 

 month ; from which it appeared that at that date the 

 current cash-balance in the hands of the bankers was 

 ^"605. He also laid on the table, for the information of 

 the Members, the usual quarterly statements. 



Expenses. — Lord Portman, Chairman of the Ex- 

 penses' Committee, reported the progress made by that 

 Committee, and the postponement of their final recom- 

 mendations until the accounts of the Salisbury Meeting 

 had been audited. His lordship expressed his intention 

 of calling the deliberate attention of the Council, at 

 their next Monthly Meeting, to the general question of 

 the future appointment of Judges for the Country 

 Meetings. 



Journal.— Mr. Thompson, Chairman of the Journal 

 Committee, presented suggestions from that committee 

 on the subject of communications connected with that 

 department of the Society's proceedings. 



Agricultural Chemistry. — Mr. Wren Hoskyns, 

 Chairman of the Chemical Committee, reported sugges- 

 tions from that committee on the subject of the Chemi- 

 cal Papers and Transactions furnished to the Society. 



Conditions of Machinery. — Colonel Challoner, 

 Chairman of the Implement Cnmmittee, reported a 

 careful examination of the various suggestions received 

 from implement-makers in reply to the circular ad- 

 dressed to them, by order of the Council, in September 

 last. He was glad to find that the greater number of 

 those suggestions were almost identical with the condi- 

 tions included in previous prize-sheets of the Society. 

 The committee had carefully selected certain portions of 

 the new suggestions communicated to them, having 

 reference chiefly to scientific details of construction, 

 and had submitted them to the consulting engineer of 



the Society, for bis opinion. The committee would make 

 their general report on the subject at the ensuing 

 Monthly Council in December. 



Show- yard Admissions. — Lord Portman presented 

 to the Council the joint report of Colonel Challoner and 

 himself, as the Stewards of Admission to the Show- 

 yard at Salisbury. The arrangements made in that de- 

 partment had proved most satisfactory. On the motion 

 of Mr. Thompson, seconded by Mr. Fisher Hobbs, the 

 suggestions for future adoption contained in that report 

 were referred to the Chester Committee ; and a vote of 

 the.best thanks of the Council was passed to Lord Portman 

 and Colonel Challoner, for the great personal attention 

 they had given to promote the efficient working of the 

 department they had undertaken at the Salisbury 

 Meeting. 



Prize-sheets. — On the motion of Mr. Fisher 

 Hobbs, seconded by Mr. Caldwell, the Committees of 

 last year for the preliminary arrangement of the Prize- 

 sheets and the recommendations of their suggestions to 

 the Council, were renewed for the purpose of taking 

 into consideration the Prizes to be offered in the depart- 

 ments of Live Stock and Agricultural Implements and 

 Machinery, for the Chester Meeting of 1858. 



Miscellaneous. — A report was received from Mr. 



Cother, Steward of Poultry at the Salisbury Meeting.— 

 The Council appointed a general Chester Committee, of 

 which Lord Portman, at the request of the Council, 

 undertook the chairmanship. — The December General 

 Meeting of the Society was fixed to be held at 11 o'clock 

 on Friday, the 11th of December. — Mr. Raymond 

 Barker, Chairman of the Veterinary Committee, re- 

 ported the steps taken by Prof. Simonds in reference 

 to the inspection of diseased cattle in Worcestershire 

 and Warwickshire ; and Prof. Simonds was requested 

 to report at the next Monthly Council the nature and 

 result of ihe treatment he had employed. He was also 

 instructed to visit Sir Henry Muggeridge's flock of 

 sheep in Surrey, and to report upon the inflammatory 

 distemper which Mr. Fisher Hobbs reported had broken 

 out among them. — Mr. Pollen reported from Wiltshire 

 cases of ophthalmia in cows. — Lord Kinnaird transmitted 

 reports on reaping-machines. — Mr. Howard's sugges- 

 tions connected with details of the Chester Meeting 

 were referred to the General Chester Committee. — 

 Communications on Guano and Inoculation for Pleuro- 

 pneumonia were received from the Foreign Office, and 

 on Guano from the Board of Trade. 



The Council adjourned to Wednesday, the 2nd of 

 December. 



