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Report to the General Meeting. 
Society in a pecuniary point of view, has been of considerable 
value to the agriculttural interest. 
In connection with this trial, the Council gratefully acknow- 
ledge the sympathy which they have received from the Com- 
mittees of several agricultural bodies. This movement, com- 
menced by the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, and accom- 
panied by a vote of lOOZ., has been followed by another vote of 
100/., from the Smithfield Club, a vote of 20Z. from the Central 
Farmers' Club, and votes of thanks from the Central Chamber of 
Agriculture, the Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Society, 
and the Norfolk and West Suffolk Chambers of Affriculture. 
Under these circumstance the Council, profiting by the expe- 
rience they have gained, and feeling the necessity of the utmost 
vigilance on the part of the Chemical Committee in the prepara- 
tion of their Quarterly Reports, as well as having due regard to 
the law laid down by the judge in his summing up at the late 
trial, have decided to continue their publication. 
The Education Grant has been renewed for the year 1873, on 
the general scheme which has now been continued for several 
years past ; but in the hope of attracting a larger number of 
candidates, the restrictions as to the age of those eligible to 
compete for prizes have been removed, while the offer of special 
prizes for exceptional merit in particular subjects has been dis- 
continued. 
In consequence of a communication from Her Majesty's Com- 
missioners for the Vienna International Exhibition, 1873, a 
Committee of the Council has been appointed to assist Her 
Majesty's Commissioners, and to aid in securing a due repre- 
sentation of British Agriculture at that important international 
meeting. Already arrangements have been made for an adequate 
area to be set apart for this purpose ; and the Council are at 
present endeavouring to secure an efficient representative of 
England on the Jury for Agricultural Machinery, as well as 
arranging for a report on the Agricultural features of the whole 
exhibition. 
During the past year the live stock of the farm has been 
unusually subject to diseases of an epizootic character. The pre- 
valence of the foot-and-mouth disease last year induced the 
Council to " draw the attention of the Government to the existing 
