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In the Poultry section Prizes amounting to £416 are offered 

 in 136 classes, and the following are providing special Prizes : 

 The White Plymouth Rock Club, the Croad Langshan Club, the 

 Sussex Poultry Club, the Malines Poultry Club, the Campine 

 Club, and the Orpington Duck Club. 



The Horticultural Exhibition m the Showyard at Bristol will 

 be opened on Tuesday, July 1st, and will close on Friday, 

 July 4th. Money Prizes and Gold, Silver and Silver Gilt Medals 

 will be offered in 19 classes. 



The National Terrier Club will hold their Show in the Show 

 yard on the Thursday and Friday, July 3rd and 4th. 



An Agricultural Education and Forestry Exhibition will be 

 held in the Bristol Showyard on the same general lines of those 

 of previous years. 



The Plantations and Nurseries Competition — to be organised 

 in conjunction with the Royal English Arboricultural Society — 

 will next year be restricted to the counties of Somerset, Devon, 

 Cornwall, and Monmouth. 



21. The following Prizes for Farms, amounting in all to £500. 

 are offered by the Bristol Local Committee : — 



For the best managed Farms in Gloucestershire. 



Class I. — Farm of 250 acres or over, exclusive of Down. First Prize, 

 £80; Second Prize, £40. (5 entries.) 



Class II. — Farm of not less than 50 acres and under 250 acres, ex- 

 clusive of Down. First Prize, £50 ; Second Prize, £30. (3 entries.) 



For the best managed Farms in Somersetshire and Dorsetshire. 



Class III. — Farm of 300 acres or over, exclusive of Down First 

 Prize, £80; Second Prize, £40. (7 entries.) 



Class IV. — Farm of not less than 150 acres and under 300 acres, exclu- 

 sive of Down. First Prize, £80; Second Prize, £40. (11 entries.) 



Class V. — Farm of not less than 50 acres and under 150 acres, exclu 

 sive of Down. First Prize, £40; Second Prize. £20. (6 entries.) 



Entries in these Classes closed on Friday, November 1st. 



22. The following Prizes are offered for Milking Machines : — 

 Firtt Prize, £25 and gold medal ; Second Prize, £lO and silver 

 medal. Entries must be sent in on or before 1st February next, 

 and the trials will take place in the County of Durham in April 

 cr May, 1913. 



23. Prizes of £10 and £5 will also be offered in connection 

 with the Bristol Show next year, for Hand-power Machines for 

 applying Dry Insecticides or Fungicides in powder form to 

 bushes and trees. 



24. Invitations have been received and accepted by the 

 Society for the holding of future Shows as follows: — In 1914, at 

 Shrewsbury; in 1915, at Nottingham; in 1916, at Manchester; 

 in 1917, at Cardiff. 



25. At midsummer. Dr. Voelrker transferred his laboratory 

 from No. 22 to No. 1, Tudor Street, E.C., which latter will, 

 in future, be the address of the Society's Laboratory, and to 

 which samples and communications should be sent. About 

 the same number of samples were submitted for analysis 



