76 



THE farm?:r's magazine. 



Results of Microscopic observation applied to 

 the Vegetable Phj-aiology of Agriculture . . £50 



Agriculture of the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, 

 Alderney, and Sark 25 



Steam CuUivation 25 



Extent to which Tillage operations act as a 

 Substitute for Manure 20 



^Modification of Four-course Rjtation conse- 

 quent upon modern improvements 



Varieties of Wheat, Barley, and Oats best 

 adapted for high farniiug 



Causej of the increasing difficulties of Turnip 

 Cultivation, and the Remedies 20 



Co'Jiparati^e Cost of high-condition of laud 

 produced by purchased Cattle Food, or by 

 purchased Manure 20 



Any other Agricultural subject 10 



20 



20 



Lectures have been delivered before the members by Pro- 

 fessor Henfrey on Vegetable Physiology, and by Professor 

 Simonds on the Co iipoaitiou of the Blood, and the Uiseaees 

 with which that fluid is connected in the animal economy. 



Professor Voelcker, the Consulting Chemist of the Society, 

 has made to the members, at the weekly councils, various 

 communications on points of practical interest connected with 

 the adulteration of guano, and the feeding properties of cotton- 

 seed cake. He has also recently presented to the Council, 

 through the Chemical Committee, a detailed statement of the 

 works carried on by him as the Chemist of the Society, in his 

 Laboratory iit Cirencester, and also a plan of the various arrange- 

 ments he his in contemplation, in order that he may be enabled 

 more fully to carry out the practical mefulness of his scientific 

 labours. The Council have adopted an enlarged schedule of 

 the privileges enjoyed by members of the Society in availing 

 themselves of Professor Voelcker's professional aid. 



The Cheater Meeting proved in every respect the most impor- 

 tant one hitherto held by the Society ; the number of visitors 

 exceeded by many thousands the average amount of former 

 years, aud the liveliest interest was exhibited throngho'it the 

 district in the proceedings of the occasion. The Mayor and 

 Corporation, and the Local Committee acting under their 

 a\ithorit,y, spared no efforts to render the meeting successful ; 

 whde thi-ir hospitality aud cordial recep'ion to the members 

 of the Society were on all sides gratefully ack^iowledged. 

 The show of Cheshire cheese, and of the animals competing 

 for the local prizes, added greatly to the interest which must 

 under any circumstances hive bten excited by the excellent 

 stock competing for the prizes of the Society, and by the 

 trials and public working of the mngniflcent array of steam 

 engines and other agricultural implements and machinery sent 

 to the meeting. 



The Council have decided, that the Warwick meeting shall be 

 held in the week commencing Monday, the 11th of July next. 

 Already the several portions of land in that neighbourhood have 

 been placed under suitable management for tie purposes of the 

 trials of implements, and the site of theshow-yard has been sur- 

 veyed by the Society's contractor of works, with a view to its 

 being duly prepared, under the instruclionof the Warwick Com- 

 mittee, for the exhibition of the stock and implements. The 

 Council have adopted a series of local priz-s, placed at their 

 disposal by the Locdl Committee, and to be c >mpeted for under 

 the general regulations of the Soritfy, an.l to be open to gene- 

 ral competition, with the exception of the prizes for cheese, 

 which will, at the request o( the Local Committee, be ristricted 

 to cheese made within the county of Warwick. Tne Society's 

 prizes for live stock will exceed by £53 the total aoiount of 

 prizes offered last year in this department ; anil third prizes 

 have been added to the great majority ct the clashes for cattle, 

 ahtep, and pig^ The Council have decided to adopt several 

 arrangements connected with the mode of distinguishing the 

 prize animals, the ri-striction of local prizes to competition in 

 their own classes, and the management of rcfrtshments for the 

 public, which they hope will be found to be inifiroveraents in 

 their respective application. The Council have also decided on 

 the following prize-, to be offered iu the department of im- 

 plements at the Warwick meeting, namely — 



Clasa of Plonghs . . £40 



Class of Harrows 20 



Class of Cultivators 20 



Class of Clod Crushers £10 



Class of Rollers 10 



Class of Tile and Brick Machines 20 



Class of Draining Machines .ind Impleme:its . . 20 

 Special Prize for the best application of Steam 



Power to the Cultivation of the Soil 50 



The triennial system for the trial of implements, which com- 

 menced in 1855, at the Carlisle meeting, has terminated this 

 year at Chester ; and it has, therefore, been necessary for 

 the Implement Committee, at the request of the Council, to 

 take into their deliberate consideration the question of the 

 renewal, discontinuance, or modification of that system. The 

 Council have adopted the recommendation of the Committee, 

 that, instead of three years, the tr'als should in future be dis- 

 tributed over a period of four years, the trials in the field and 

 in the yard occurring every alternate year, such special prizes, 

 and medals for miscellaneous improvements, being also offered 

 each year as the Council may determine. The following ia 

 the schedule of this arrangement : — 



I.— 1S59. 



Ploughs. I 



Harrows. 



Cultivators. | 



Il.-lg 

 Combined and other | 



Thrashing Machines. 

 Chaff Cutters. | 



III.— IS 

 Drills. 



Manure Distributors. 

 Horse-hoea. 

 Hay Machines. 



IV.- 

 Fi.xed and Portable Steam 



Engines. 

 Fixed and Portable 



Finishing Machine*. 



Clod-crushers. 



Rollers. 



Tile and Brick Machines. 



' Mills. 

 Oil-cake Breakers. 



Mowing Machines. 

 Reaping Machines. 

 Horse- rakes. 

 Carts and Waggons. 



Hand Dressing Ma- 

 chines. 

 Barley Hummellers. 



They have also decided that in future specifications of 

 entry, " the prices stated shall be the prices of the respective 

 articles of machinery entered for competition and trial at the 

 country meetings of the Society, complete and in good work- 

 ing order." 



The Council have the satisfaction of recording the rapid ad- 

 vances of the Society in carrying out successfully the several 

 objects for which it was established. 

 By order of the Council, 



JAMES HUDSON, Secretary. 



London, December, 1858. 



Mr. AsTBURY having moved, and M. Trehonnais se- 

 conded the adoption of the report, 



Mr. S. SiUNEY said, that before the motion was put to the 

 meeting he was desirous of making an observation or two upon 

 the report. It would be in the recollection of many of the geu- 

 tlemen then present,that on previous occasions, at Chelmsford, 

 at Salisbury, and again in this room last year, he took the 

 liberty of making some fUi-gestions which he thought were for 

 the benefit of the Society; and he believed he might flatter 

 himself that those suggestions had not been altogether in 

 vain ; inasmuch as it was quite impossible to listen to the 

 report just read, without seeing that very considerable im- 

 provements had of late been introduced into the management 

 of the Society. Moreover, he granted also that there bad been 

 improvements which were not mentioned in the report. Now 

 it was perfectly notorious, aud it was a subject of general com- 

 plaint, that the Council of the Society had not hitherto con- 

 tained so many working members belonging to the 

 great agricultural body as the importance, the num- 

 bers, a'ld the intellect of the tenant farmers of the coun- 

 try deserved. Since ho had made the remarks to which he 

 had referred there was no doubt that several gentlemen 

 of considerable intelligence had been introduced to the Council. 



