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10. The Council have made a further contribution of 50/. towards 
the funds of the Mansion House United Association on Railway 
Rates, for the purpose of safeguarding the interests of agriculturists 
in the Board of Trade inquiry now proceeding. 
11. The general arrangements for the forthcoming Meeting at 
Plymouth are well advanced. The Implement Yard and the Dairy 
will be open to Members of the Society and the public on Saturday, 
June 21, when the charge for admission to non-members will be 
2s. Gd. The judging will take place in all the classes on Monday, 
June 23, when the charge for admission will be 5s. On Tuesday the 
charge for admission will be 2s. 6c/. ; and on the last three days, 
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, it will be Is. 
12. The total amount of space allotted in the Implement Depart- 
ment is 9,078 feet run, exclusive of open ground space, as compared 
with 10,743 feet at Nottingham in 1888, and S,217 feet at Newcastle 
in 1887. The total entries of live-stock (horses, cattle, sheep, and 
pigs) are 1,779, as compared with 1,875 at Nottingham and 1,833 
at Newcastle. There are 341 entries of horses, 641 of cattle, 576 of 
sheep, 221 of pigs, and 692 of poultry, besides 56 of cheese and 1S3 
of butter. 
13. Eighteen candidates have entered for the competitions of 
Butter-makers for the Society's Prizes and Certificates, to take place 
in the Showyard on Tuesday the 24th and Wednesday the 25th 
June. Thirty shoeing-smiths practising in the Society's District D 
will compete for the Prizes offered for Shoeing Hunters and Agri- 
cultural Horses on the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday 
of the Meeting. On the Wednesday afternoon there will also be a 
Demonstration of Systems of Horse-shoeing not in common use. 
14. At the Show of Horses which was held at the Royal Agri- 
cultural Hall last March, under the auspices of the Royal Commission 
on Horse Breeding, of the Hunters' Improvement and Hackney 
Horse Societies, and of this Society, the three Premiums and Gold 
Medals offered by the Society for Thoroughbred Stallions serving 
mares in District D during the forthcoming season, were awarded 
by the Judges to — 
Mr. G. P. Finch's Eclipse. 
Mr. Isaac Clark's Jack Tar. 
Mr. Alex. Taylor's Lancastrian. 
These stallions are located for the season as follows : — Eclipse in the 
Exeter District, at his owner's stables, The Briars, Alphington, 
Exeter ; Jack 1 J ar in the Plymouth District ; and Lancastrian in 
the Windsor District, at South Lea Farm, Datchet, near Windsor. 
Satisfactory reports have been received from the Local Committees 
as to the manner in which the nominations of mares to these stallions 
have been taken up. 
