XX Report to the General Meeting. 



2. Live Stock. 



Short-ljorncd cattle £170 



Hereford cattle 170 



Devon cattle 170 



Channel Islands' cattle 30 



Cattle of other establislied breeds 45 



Agricultural horses 130 



Dray-horses 40 



Thoroughbred, hunting, and hackney horses 105 



Leicesler sheep 110 



Long-wooUed sheep (not Leicesters) 110 



Southdown sheep 110 



Short-wooUed sheep (not Southdowns) 110 



Pigs 80 



Farm poultry 120 



£1500 

 The Council continue to be favoured bj the Earl of Clarendon 

 with successive reports received at the Foreign Office from varioiis 

 countries abroad, in reference to the discovery of manuring sub- 

 stances in different parts of the world, and to the occurrence of 

 epidemics of an infectious character among cattle. 



The vigorous prosecution of agricultural research in every 

 department of husbandry, and the more definite applicatitm of 

 scientific reasoning to the elucidation of every branch of practical 

 detail, as well as to the gradual establishment of general prin- 

 ciples, are circumstances which constitute at the present day a 

 still greater necessity for that division of labour on the one hand 

 which the local societies throughout the kingdom are so com- 

 petent lo execute, and that unity of action on the other which 

 can only be given by a great central body like the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society of England, which is at once the representative 

 of the individual interests of the fanning community, and the 

 ready means by which their united energies may be most effec- 

 tively brought into action for the purpose of gaining any given 

 practical object. The increase of its members, and the estima- 

 tion in which its labours are held, afford strong grounds for 

 the belief that its usefulness will continue unimpaired, and 

 its advantages become more widely distributed by a still further 

 co-operation of the farmers of the country in the promotion of its 



national objects. 



By order of the Council, 



JAMES HUDSON, Secretary. 



