xviii Report to the General Meetiiir/. 



The triennial system for the trial of implements, which com- 

 menced in 1855, at the Carlisle meeting, has terminated this 

 year at Chester ; and it has, therefore, been necessary for the Im- 

 plement Committee, at the request of the Council, to take into 

 their deliberate consideration the question of the renewal, discon- 

 tinuance, or modification of that system. The Council have 

 adopted the recommendation of the Committee, that, instead of 

 three years, the trials should in future be distributed over a period 

 of four years, the trials in the field and in the yard occurring 

 every alternate year, such special prizes and medals for miscel- 

 laneous improvements being also offered each year as the Council 

 may determine. The following is the schedule of this arrange- 

 ment : — 



I. — 1859. — Ploughs, Harrows, Cultivators, Clod-crushers, Eollers, Tile and 

 Lrick Machines. 



11.^1800.— Thrashing Machines, Chaff-cutters, Mills, Oil-cake Breakers. 



III. — 18G1. — Drills, Manure-distributors, Horse-hoes, Hay Machines, Mowing 

 Machines, Heaping Machines, Horse-rakes, Carts and Waggons. 



lY. — 1862. — Fixed and Portable Steam Ensines, Fixed and Portable Finishing 

 Machines, Hand Dressing Machines, Parley Hurumellers. 



They have also decided that, in future specifications of entry, 

 *' the prices stated shall be the prices of the respective articles of 

 machinery, entered for competition and trial at the country meet- 

 ings of the Society, coinplete and in good working order. ^^ 



The Council have the satisfaction of recording the rapid ad- 

 vance of the Society in carrying out successfully the several 

 objects for which it was established. 



By order of the Council, 



James Hudsox, Secretary. 



