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Report to the General Meeting. 
property of the Society remains the same as at the last General 
Meeting, namely, 26,511/. lis. 5c?. New Three per Cents. The 
balance of the current account in the hands of the Bankers on 
the 1st instant was 942/. 19s. IQd., and the sum of 1000/. remained 
on deposit. 
The Bristol Meeting was in every respect highly satisfactory. 
The entries of Live Stock and Implements were very large, 
the attendance of the public was good, and the result to the 
Society profitable. The visit of His Royal Highness the Prince 
of Wales gave the citizens their long-wished-for opportunity of 
showing their loyalty, while the Mayor of Bristol, the Local 
Committee, and the Merchant Venturers, vied with each other 
in their hospitality to the Society. The trials of Dairy Appli- 
ances were most successfully carried out in the Showyard, and 
were daily watched with interest by numbers of dairy-farmers 
and others. The trials of the Sheaf-binders which competed 
for the Society's Gold Medal took place at harvest-time on 
Mr. Miles's farm at Leigh, near Bristol, and resulted in the 
award of the Gold Medal to Messrs. Waite, Burnell, and Co., 
for McCormick's Sheaf-binder, the Binder exhibited by Mr. 
Walter A. Wood being highly commended. 
The Prizes offered by the Local Committee for Arable and 
Dairy Farms attracted only 3 competitors in the former class, 
but as many as 15 in the latter. The Reports on this compe- 
tition, on the trials of Sheaf-binders and Dairy Appliances, and 
on the exhibition of Stock and Implements, will be published in 
the forthcoming number of the ' Journal.' 
In connection with the Paris Universal Exhibition, an Agri- 
cultural Congress, at which the Society was influentially 
represented, was held at the Palace of the Trocadero. At the 
desire of the Society of French Agriculturists, the Council 
caused a memoir on English Agriculture to be preparetl and 
laid before the Congress. That memoir has since been issued 
to the Members of the Society in lieu of the usual autumn num- 
ber of the ' Journal,' and the Council believe that this proceeding 
has met with general approval. 
The preparations for next year's Meeting of the Society, 
which will assume the form and proportions of an International 
Agricultural Exhibition, are in active progress. A very con- 
venient site at Kilburn, 100 acres in extent, has been obtained 
