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Report to the General Meeting. 
sums are available for defraying the expenses of the forth- 
coming Country Meeting, to be held at Hull, namely, an amount 
of 2000Z. which lies on deposit with the Society's bankers, and 
the balance of the current account, which on the 1st instant 
amounted to 2911Z. 13*. Id. 
The Council regret to report that during the past half-year 
the Society has lost one of its most distinguished members by 
the death of Lord Ossington. The vacancy thus caused in the 
list of Trustees has been filled by the election of Lord Kesteven. 
Mr. N. C. Stone having resigned his seat as a Member of the 
Council, the vacancy thus created has been filled by the election 
©f Mr. J. Evans, of Ufiington, Shropshire. 
The Hull Local Committee and the Agricultural Associations 
of the East Riding of Yorkshire are co-operating with the 
Council to promote the success of the ensuing Country Meeting, 
and have added to the Society's Prize-list, Prizes for Hunters, 
Hackneys, and Agricultural Horses. The list has been still 
further augmented by the Hull butchers, who have offered Prizes 
for Dairy Cattle, Steers, and Wether Sheep, and by Mr. Pease, of 
Darlington, who has devoted 100/. to Prizes for Asses and Mules 
for agricultural purposes. 
In compliance with a general wish expressed at the last half- 
yearly meeting, the Council have decided to offer at the Hull 
Meeting a Prize of 25Z. for the best combined Stacking Machine, 
although hay and straw elevators were submitted to trial at 
Cardiff. The competing machines will be tried with sheaf-corn, 
hay, and loose corn and straw ; they will be worked by horse- 
power, but must also be adapted for use in conjunction with a 
steam threshing machine if required. 
The Council regret that only one Wold farm and four Holder- 
ness farms were entered to compete for the prizes of lOOZ. each, 
offered for the best-managed farm in the Holderness and Wold 
districts of the East Riding of Yorkshire respectively. One of 
the conditions of competition was that there must be at least six 
competitors in each class, unless the Council should otherwise 
specially determine ; the prize for the Yorkshire Wold farm has 
therefore been withdrawn, but the offer of the prize for the 
Holderness farm has been maintained. As on previous occasions, 
the award of this prize will be announced at the General Meeting 
held in tlie Show-yard. 
