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Report to the General Meeting. 
Leamington. Due notice of tlie date when they will commence 
will be given in the agricultural and local newspapers. 
The district assigned for the Country Meeting in 1877 com- 
prises the counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lancaster, 
and the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Council received most 
cordial invitations from Carlisle, Liverpool, and Preston, and 
appointed a Committee to visit and report upon the sites and 
other accommodation offered. After considering the Report of 
this Committee, and conferring with representatives of the three 
localities, the Council finally decided that the Country Meeting 
for 1877 should be held at Liverpool. 
The Council have to announce that, according to the rotation 
of districts which has recently been followed, the Country Meet- 
ing for 1878 falls to be held in the district comprising South 
Wales and the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, Monmouth, and 
Worcester ; and it has been decided that a Show shall be held 
in the Metropolitan District in the year 1879, provided that 
suitable accommodation be found. 
Since the last General Meeting an analysis and explanation 
of the Agricultural Holdings (England) Act, 1875, has been 
published in the ' Journal,' together with other illustrative com- 
munications, and a copy of the Act itself. On the motion of 
Mr. Randell, the Chemical Committee have considered by what 
means reliable data can be obtained for the guidance of valuers 
under the Act, in reference to unexhausted improvements of 
the third class, and have received the evidence of several scien- 
tific and practical witnesses on this subject. This evidence will 
be printed and circulated amongst the Members of the Society. 
Upon the recommendation of the Chemical Committee, the 
Council have resolved to accept the Duke of Bedford's offer of a 
farm at Woburn, where such experiments as may be determined 
upon may be carried out under the control of Mr. Lawes and 
Dr. Voelcker. The Duke of Bedford having not only ^Hotted 
this farm to the use of the Council, but having also expressed 
his desire that the erection of the necessary buildings, and the 
subsequent cost of the experiments themselves, should be entirely 
at his expense, the Council have passed a cordial vote of thanks 
to the Duke of Bedford for his public-spirited offer. Pending 
the completion of those experiments, it is proposed to draw up, 
with the assistance of Mr. Lawes and Dr. Voelcker, a schedule 
of the manurial value of cakes and other feeding stuffs, and to 
publish the same for the use of valuers under the new Act. 
