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OXFORD MEETING. 



The Annual Country Meeting of tlie English Agricultural So- 

 ciety, recently held at Oxford, in the month of July, has ful- 

 filled the expectations of the friends of agricultural improve- 

 ment; and, in recording a notice in their Journal of the stock 

 and implements exhibited on that occasion, the Committee can- 

 not refrain from congratulating the Society on the successful 

 issue of their first attempt of this kind. The excellent arrange- 

 ments of the Local Committee, the support of the Mayor and 

 Corporation, and the participation in the whole by the Vice- 

 Chancellor and other leading members of the University, are 

 circumstances which eminently promoted the objects of the 

 Meeting, and the harmony and good understanding of the im- 

 mense multitude assembled on that occasion; and when it is 

 considered that no less than between two and three thousand 

 individuals — eminent cultivators of the soil, breeders of stock, or 

 friends generally to the advance of husbandry in this kingdom 

 — came from every part of the country to form that Meeting, 

 and were personal inspectors and auditors on subjects con- 

 nected with the most approved plans of mechanical application, 

 or general modes of management in the various departments of 

 practical farming, the Committee cannot but have a well- 

 grounded assurance of the benefits such an interchange and 

 discussion of opinions must have, not only in bringing farmers 

 into better acquaintance with each other's wants and wishes, but 

 in the removal of those local prejudices which have for so long a 

 period retarded the progress of agricultural improvement in this 

 Country. 



The Society have accepted the invitation of the nobility and 

 gentry of the neighbourhood of Cambridge to hold their next 



