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in the details. Candidates must send in their names on or 
before the 18th March, and the Examinations will take ])lace 
in the Society's house in the week commencing Monday, 12th 
ApriL 
The Country Meeting at Manchester will be held in the week 
commencing Monday the IDth July, and will close on Saturday 
the 24th. Prizes to the amount of 2930/. are offered by the 
Society for Live Stock, and 15 iG/. has been added by the Man- 
chester Local Committee, including Classes for heavy and light 
weight carrying Hunters ; for leaping over hurdles and water ; 
for Cleveland, Dray, Carriage, and Cart Horses ; for Roadsters 
and Ponies ; for the \ orkshire dairy cross, Ayrshire, polled 
Angus or Aberdeen, polled Galloway, West Highland, Welsh, 
and Kerry breeds of Cattle ; for Cheviot, Limestone, Border 
Leicester, and Black-faced Scotch Sheep ; and for both British 
and Foreign Cheese and Butter. 
The Prize Sheet for Implements for trial at IVIanchester in 
1869, which was issued in July last, comprising mowing, reap- 
ing, and hay-making macliines, hay-collectors, horse-rakes, carts, 
waggons, and liquid manure-carts, has been supplemented by 
the addition of prizes for the class of carriages with low body 
adapted for moving stock, implements, &c., on a farm, in the 
most convenient form, and for the class of sheaf-binding machines. 
A Gold Medal has also been offered for the best system of drying 
Corn and Hay in wet weather, sufficiently economical for prac- 
tical purposes. The Manchester Local Committee also offer 
prizes for the best broad-cast distributor of guano or other 
manure, to be worked by one or two horses ; for the best machine 
for potato-getting ; for the best plans or models of labourers' 
cottages, of hay or corn sheds, and of covered sheds for storing 
manure ; for dairy utensils ; for harness for a pair of horses for 
agricultural purposes ; and for the best illustration of the prin- 
ciple of shoeing. 
The Council have ordered a Schedule of the Members of 
Council, showing in proper form the Districts (from A to H), 
and the number of Members they represent, to be inserted in 
the current number of the ' Journal.' 
By order of the Council, 
H. Hall Daee, Secretary. 
