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and trials have, accordingly, been divided into classes for this 

 three-years' rotation under the following heads: — 1. Implements 

 and machinery for the tillage and drainage of land. 2. Imple- 

 ments and machinery for the cultivation and harvesting of crops. 

 3. Implements and machinery for the preparation of crops for 

 market and cattle-food. Those under the first of these heads 

 will form the Prize and Trial Implements for the Chelmsford 

 Meeting, in addition to the Special Prizes of 500/. for the best 

 Steam Cultivator, first and second Prizes for Reaping-Machines, 

 and Prizes for new and miscellaneous implements. The Con- 

 sulting Engineer of the Society has constructed for the Chelms- 

 ford Meeting new Dynamometers, as the measures of forces 

 required to overcome the resistance offered by the soil to the 

 different classes of field-implements. The knowledge thus ac- 

 quired of the amount of such resistance when compared with 

 the work actually done, enables the Judges accurately to esti- 

 mate the relative economic value of competing implements 

 intended for the cultivation of the soil. The Live Stock 

 portion of the exhibition will include foreign cattle and 

 sheep belonging to foreigners and bred abroad. For the pur- 

 pose of making entries for foreign animals during the ap- 

 proaching Great International Show at Paris, in the first week 

 of June, the Council have extended the date of entry, in their 

 case, from the 1st to the 12th of that month. The Local 

 Chelmsford Committee have liberally placed at the disposal of 

 the Council the sum of 200/. to be awarded as extra prizes for 

 thorough-bred, hunting, and roadster horses. These prizes will, 

 no doubt, attract a large amount of competition, and greatly in- 

 crease the interest of the show. 



Agreeably with a request from the French Government, the 

 Council have appointed Mr. Evelyn Denison, M.P., Chairman 

 of the International Implement Jury at the ensuing Paris Meet- 

 ing, and ten English Jurors to represent this country in the 

 different departments of live stock and implements on .that 

 occasion. 



