Report to the General Meeting. 
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best-managed farms in the county of Somerset, has been already 
reported to the Society, which is much indebted to Mr. J. Bowen 
Jones, a Member of the Council and one of the Judges, for a 
Report containing a very full and interesting description of the 
farms to which the prizes were awarded, as well as notices of 
some of the others which competed. This Report has also been 
published in the last number of the ' Journal.' 
The prospects of the Country Meeting to be held next year 
at Aston Park, Birmingham, are unusually encouraging. The 
Local Committee have very liberally added to the Society's 
Prize-sheet offers of prizes for Agricultural horses, hunters, hacks, 
and harness-horses ; Long-horn and dairy cattle ; Shropshire 
sheep, wool, butter, and cheese, amounting in the aggregate to 
1010/. These prizes, added to those offered by the Society, 
raise the total amount of prizes for Live Stock to be competed 
for at Birmingham to the large sum of 4305/. 
The Birmingham Local Committee have also offered two 
prizes of 100/. and 50/. respectively for the best-managed farms 
in Warwickshire exceeding 200 acres in extent ; and prizes of 
50/. and 25/. respectively for the best-managed farms in the 
county not exceeding 200 acres ; and they have further placed a 
sum of 25/. at the disposal of the Judges for the recognition of 
special merit in any of the competing farms. The Council 
regret to say that, notwithstanding the liberality of these prizes, 
the entries this year are restricted to five in the large-farm class, 
there being no entry in the class for farms not exceeding 200 
acres. 
The Council have resolved that the Birmingham Meeting 
shall commence on Wednesday, July 19th, instead of Monday 
as ^heretofore. They have also resolved that any exhibitor 
wishing to remove his horse for the night be allowed to do so, 
on depositing 10/. at the Secretary's office, and receiving an 
official pass — the time of leaving, and that of returning next 
morning, to be inserted thereon ; and if the animal be not duly 
brought back, the sum of 10/. shall be forfeited to the Society 
for each Show-day the animal is absent ; and the exhibitor shall 
also forfeit any prize awarded to him in any class at the Bir- 
mingham Show, and shall not exhibit again at the Society's 
Shows until the forfeits are paid. 
With regard to the ages of pigs entered in the classes for 
"three breeding sow-pigs of the same litter," which have 
