xxviii General Meeting, July 4, 1912. 



J. Howard Howard, Mr. W. F. Ingram, Mr. Alfred Mansell, Mr. George Marshal), 

 Mr. Ernest Mathews, Mr. John Maughan, Mr. Christopher Middleton, Mr. G. 

 Norris Millwood, Mr. Charles Morris, Mr. John Myatt, Mr. William Nocton, 

 Mr. Henry Overman, Mr. Claude M. S. Pilkington, Mr. W. A. Front. Mr. G. G. 

 Rea, Mr. Frederick Reynard, Mr. Charles Coltman Rogers, Mr. Fred Smith, Mr. 

 H. Smith, jiin., Mr. L. C. Tipper, Mr. James Watt, Mr. C. W. Wilson, <kc., &c. 



The following representatives of the Doncaster Local Committee also 

 attended : Mr. C. A. Chatterton, Mr. John Law, and Mr. F. H. Chafer (Local 

 Secretary). 



Foot-and-Mouth Disease. 



The President, in opening the meeting, said they met together that day 

 under, perhaps, the most remarkable circumstances that had occurred in the 

 history of the Society — he referred to the closing of that section of the Show 

 comprising cattle, sheep, and pigs in consequence of the outbreaks of Foot-and- 

 Mouth Disease. In these outbreaks immediate and stringent steps had to be 

 taken, and the Council, at a special meeting which they held on the opening 

 day of the Show, unanimously approved of the course taken by the Board of 

 Agriculture. It was the best and the only course that could have been taken 

 under the circumstances. 



He felt, too, that they ought to take some notice of the prompt manner in 

 which Sir Gilbert Greenall and those who assisted him had dealt with the 

 situation. They had done everything they could to help forward the removal of 

 the stock from the Showyard. It had been a difficult matter to get so large a 

 number of animals out of the Showyard in so short a time, and he thought the 

 railway companies, backed up by the efforts of Sir Gilbert, had done every- 

 thing they could do for the Society and exhibitors. (Hear, hear.) 



Entry Fees to be Returned. 



The Council met on Tuesday as soon as possible, and at that meeting it had 

 been decided to return the entry fees of exhibitors whose stock could not be 

 shown. He thought this would meet with the approval of the Members, and in 

 this connection he read the following letter : — 



Sigers, 

 Eastcote. Middlesex. 

 Dear Sir.— As the order prohibiting the holding of the Jive stoek portion of the 

 Doncaster Show is bound to cause a great loss to tlie Society. I have much pleasure 

 in enclosing a cheque for 5Z. as a small contrii)Ution towards that loss. 



Please also place my entry of stock fees and auction fees to the credit of the 

 general fund. (This in case such fees are returnable ) 



I remain. 



Yours truly, 

 The Secretary, R.A.S.E. (Signed) KENNETH GOSCHEN. 



The President, continuing, said he would not think of asking to have 

 returned the fees he had paid for his stock, neither, he believed, would Sir 

 Gilbert Greenall, and he had no doubt that other exhiViitors woiild help in that 

 way. (Hear, hear.) 



Co-operation of Local Societies. 



There was another thing he would like to allude to, and that was the help 

 the Yorkshire Agricultural Society and the Doncaster Agricultural Society had 

 given them. Some of those present would remember that many years ago 

 when the Royal Agricultural Society's Show was last in Yorkshire there was a 

 great boom in agricultural shows, and it was thought that the "Royal" couUl 

 be held as well as the County Show. They had, however, found that the 

 experiment was not expedient. On the present occasion the Yorkshire Society 

 determined to forego their Show, and the Doncaster Society did the same. 

 While on this subject he would like to mention that Mr. John Maugban, the 

 Secretary, and Mr. Henry Hawking, the.Director of the Yorkshire Agricultural 

 Society, with Mr. Yarborough, had been chiefly instrumental in bringing about 

 this result. 



