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The Local Committee have also announced their intention of 
holding a show of Hounds and an exhibition of leaping' of 
Hunters ; and the Royal Horticultural Society will hold a Flower- 
show adjacent to the Society's yard. 
The Society already possesses in its Journal valuable Reports on 
the Agriculture of most of the English Counties. Several years, 
however, have elapsed since many of these Reports were written, 
and the Council feel sure that in the present more advanced 
state of Agricultural practice and science there is still much of 
interest to record in different localities. They have, therefore, 
thought it advisable to obtain more detailed information as to 
the management of particular districts, and for this purpose 
special farms have been selected, to which gentlemen deputed 
by the Council have recently paid visits. In the next number 
of the Journal it is intended that ample reports of these farms 
shall appear ; and it is hoped that these reports will not only 
record anything peculiar in the system pursued upon the farms 
themselves, but will also contain much useful practical informa- 
tion and prove interesting to the general readers of the Journal, 
The examinations for the Society's Educational Prizes and Cer- 
tificates were held on the 13th of April and following days, Avhen 
18 candidates, out of 21 who had entered, presented themselves 
for examination in the several subjects. According to the scheme 
authorised by the Council, a candidate, in order to obtain a cer- 
tificate, was required to satisfy the examiners in Practical Agri- 
culture and in Book-keeping, as well as in one of the two following 
subjects, viz. : in Mechanics as applicable to Agriculture or in 
Land Surveying ; and to enable him to take a place in the first 
class he was also required to pass in Chemistry, Candidates had 
also the option of offering themselves for examination in one or 
more of the following subjects, viz, : Botany, Geology, and Vete- 
rinary Science ; and those who passed in any one or more of them 
had the marks thus obtained placed to their credit in the general 
classification. 
In the examination of this year 200 marks were allotted to 
Agriculture, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Book-keeping respec- 
tively ; and 100 each to Land-Surveying, Veterinary Science, 
Geology, and Botany ; the pass number being one-half the number 
of marks allotted in the essential subjects. 
Successful candidates have been placed in two classes, in each 
