Report of the Council. vii 



accountants, and has been furnished to all Members in the last 

 number of the Journal. 



The funded capital has been reduced by the sale of lOOOZ. 

 Stock, and now stands at 18,027/. 19^. Id. in the New Three 

 per Cents. This sale has been rendered necessary partly by the 

 cost of the addition of a new storey to the Society's house, which 

 materially adds to the value of the premises ; and partly by the 

 appropriation of a considerable sum to a thorough investigation 

 into the results of the cultivation of the soil by steam-driven 

 machinery in various parts of the country. To this latter object 

 the Council determined to devote a sum not exceeding 1000/,, and 

 notwithstanding the wet autumn considerable progress has been 

 made in the enquiry, the result of which will be fully made 

 known in the first No. of the Journal for next year. 



The implements for which Prizes will be given in the ensuing 

 year consist of fixed and portable steam-engines, fixed and 

 portable threshing-machines, finishing-machines, hand-dressing 

 machines, barley -hummellers, chaff-cutters, mills, crushers, oil- 

 cake breakers, bone-mills, turnip-cutters, and field-gates ; and 

 as a period of four years will have elapsed since the trial of 

 some of these classes of implements, it is to be anticipated that 

 many improvements will be exhibited at Bury St. Edmunds. 



The Country Meeting next year will be held in the week 

 commencing Monday the 15th July. Prizes to the amount of 

 2925/, are offered by the Society for Live Stock, and 430/. for 

 Implements, while 570/, are added by the Suffolk Agricultural 

 Society and the Local Committee. It is also proposed to offer 

 200/. in prizes for Poultry, the Eastern Counties having long 

 been famous for their success in this department. 



The Education Committee have followed out the scheme of 

 prizes offered in the last Report in connection with the Oxford 

 Local Examinations, and have made the following award of 

 prizes : — 



List I. — Prizes to Candidates who obtain Certificates, regard being had 

 to their place in the General Class List. 



Seniors. Three in Oxford 1st Division. 



Name. School. Prize. 



A. Pollard .. .. Liverpool Institute £7 



J. Lake .. ., Alfred House School, Bow, Middlesex .. 5 



C. J. Langley .. Abington House School, Northampton ., 5 



