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Report to the General Meeting. 
1878. — Steam-power Machinery used in Tillage. 
Engines with winding apparatus Rope-porters, &c. 
or windlasses. Ridging Implements. 
Ploughs. Diggers. 
Cultivators. Clodcrushers. 
Pulverizers. Anchors. 
Harrows. 
1879. — Machines and Implements used in the preparation of crops for 
market. 
Threshing machines. Straw elevators. 
Dressing machines. Separators. 
Barley hummellers. Seed Shellers. 
Flax machinery. Hay presses. 
Com dryers. Trussing machines. 
1880. — Machines and Implements used in Drainage, Eoadmaking, Building, 
General Estate Work, Forestry, and Dairy Work. 
Draining machines. Tile and brick machines. 
Stone breakers. Stone and root extractors. 
Bone mills. Pioad rollers. 
Gates, fencing, stiles, &c. Dairy implements. 
Hop machinery. Thatch-making machines. 
1881. — Steam Engines. 
Portable engines. Agricultural Locomotives. 
In connection with the Society's practice of offering prizes 
for the best agricultural implements, and of submitting to trial 
those entered to compete for the prizes offered, as well as others 
selected by the Judges from those exhibited in the Show-yard, 
the following resolution was passed at a meeting of manufac- 
turers of agricultural implements held last February : — 
' That, in the opinion of this meeting, considering the increased difiRculty of 
conducting competitive trials at the time of the annual Show, this meeting 
would urge upon the Council the desirability of considering if the object sought 
could not be better accomplished by abandoning the present .system of awarding 
prizes, and adopting instead thereof a thorough,trial at a suitable season of the 
year for the various implements and machines, and the publication of a full 
and accurate report of the performance of each.' 
This resolution having been submitted to the Council and 
duly considered, it was resolved that the Society, having recently 
revised the conditions of competition in order to give a more 
thorough trial to every class of implements, decline acceding to 
the request of the implement-makers that the competitive and 
prize system should be abandoned. 
The Council have also to report that in consequence of the 
increased work connected with the awards of prizes at the 
Country Meetings, they have deemed it expedient to appoint 
