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privileges as a Member during the forthcoming Show, the formal election of 

 such candidate to be considered by the Council at their next ordinary meeting." 



The Report of the General Doncaster Committee having beeu received and 

 adopted, the Chairman announced that a telegram had been received from 

 Lord Middleton intimating that H.R.H. Prince Arthur of Connaught vrould 

 visit the Doncaster Show on Wednesdaj', July 3. 



Mr. Adeank called attention to the increase in the number of outbreaks of 

 anthrax and swine fever for the present year, in comparison with the corres- 

 ponding period of 1911, which he thought they would all agree was very 

 unsatisfactory. He had not had an opportunity of reading the whole of the 

 report of the Departmental Committee which had sat on Foot-and-Mouth 

 Disease — of which Sir Ailwyn Fellowes was Chairman, and on which there 

 were two other Members of the Council, but he had seen some of the conclusions 

 arrived at. and they seemed to him exceedingly practical. He was sure that 

 Committee ought to be congratulated on having done their work so expeditiously 

 and reported so quickly. He would like to move that the report of this Depart- 

 mental Committee be issued to Members of the Council, together with copies of 

 the interim report of the Departmental Committee which had inquired into 

 Swine Fever. The Foot-and-Mouth Disease Committee had not only gone into 

 that disease, but had also considered the question of anthrax, for the reason that 

 the same measures which would be preventive in the one case would be pre- 

 ventive in the other. With these reports before them, the Council might, at a 

 subsequent meeting, have a discussion concerning them. He thought it would 

 not tend to make their proceedings less lively if occasionally they had discussions 

 on questions of this kind, which were of such great interest to the agriculturists 

 of the country. This suggestion was adopted. Sir Ailwyn Fellowes 

 remarked that he thought he might say, on behalf of the Foot-and-Mouth 

 Disease Committee, that they had felt the absolute importance of getting 

 through their work as speedily as possible, consistent with efficiency, for the 

 purpose of allaying the uneasiness felt in the country as regards the outbreaks 

 of the disease. He hoped and trusted that, when considered by the agricultural 

 world, that report would be received with satisfaction. He felt that the Council 

 should take some steps on reports of this kind, because they could consider 

 them very carefully, and he was sure that any consideration given to these 

 reports would be acceptable to the Boai'd of Agriculture. 



Other business having been transacted, the Council adjourned until 

 Thursday, July 4, in the Doncaster Showyard. 



TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1912. 



At a Special Council held in the Showyard at Doncaster, Lord Middleton 

 (President) in the Chair :— 

 Present : — Tnixtees. — Sir J. B. Bowen-Jones, Bart., Mr. F. S. W. Cornwallis, 

 the Earl of Coventry, Lord Moreton, the Earl of Northbrook, Sir John H. 

 Thorold, Bart. 



Vici'-Prexidentx. — Mr. C. Adeane, Sir Richard P. Cooper, Bart., Mr. Percy 

 Crutchley, the Right Hon. Sir Ailwyn Fellowes, K.C.V.O., Mr. R. M. Greaves, 

 Sir Gilbert Greenall, Bart., C.V.O., the Hon. C. T. Parker. 



Other Members of the Council. — Mr. T. A. Buttar, Mr. R. G. Carden, Mr. 

 Joseph Harris, Mr. J. H. Hine, Mr. J. L. Luddington, Mr. Alfred Mansell, 

 Mr. G. Norris Midwood, Mr. W. Nocton, Mr. C. M. S. Pilkington, Mr. G. G. 

 Rca, Mr. F. Reynard, Mr. E. W. Stanyforth, and Mr. E. V. V. Wheeler. 



The President opened the proceedings by explaining that in view of 

 recent events connected with the outbreaks of Foot-and-Mouth Disease, he had 

 decided to call the Council together at the earliest possible moment to consider 

 the position of affairs. He then called upon Sir Gilbert Greenall (the 

 Honorary Director) to explain what had been done, 



