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15. For Farm and Dairy Produce, Prizes will be given in six 
Classes for Cheese of 1891 make, in two classes for Soft Cheese, and 
in three Classes for Butter. Prizes will also be given for Cider and 
Perry, and for Jams and Preserved Fruits made in 1890. The 
British Bee-Keepers' Association will continue their Prizes for Hives, 
Honey, and Bee Appliances. 
16. The Butter-making Competitions, which have been an inter- 
esting feature of the Annual Shows for several years past, will be 
continued at Doncaster. Four classes have been arranged for, five' 
Prizes being offered in each class. There will also be a competition 
of Shoeing Smiths practising in the county of York. The compe- 
tition will be in two classes, Hunters and Agricultural Horses, and 
five Prizes will be offered in each class. The Worshipful Company 
of Farriers have generously offered, as before, to provide the First 
Prize in each of these two classes, and to bestow the freedom of 
their Guild upon the two first-prize winners. 
17. Prizes amounting to 300Z. have been offered in three classes 
by the Doncaster Local Committee for the best-managed Farms in 
the county of York. The number of farms entered for competition 
is eleven, and the Judges will start on their first tour of inspection 
early in January. 
18. The Council have agreed to continue for another year the 
grant of three Premiums of 2001. each for Thoroughbred Stallions 
serving Mares in the Society's District E, which consists of the 
county of York. The Doncaster Local Committee have promised 
to bestow a Gold Medal upon the owners of each of the three 
Stallions winning the Society's Premiums, which will be competed 
for at the same time, and under the same conditions, as the twenty- 
two Queen's Premiums offered by the Royal Commission on Horse- 
breeding. 
19. The Council have received invitations from the Town 
Councils of Warwick and Gloucester to hold the Society's Country 
Meeting of 1892 in those towns. The customary Committee of 
Inspection has been appointed to report on the site and other 
accommodation offered at each place, and a final decision as to the 
place of meeting in 1892 will be made by the Council in February 
next. 
20. As on the occasion of the last great International Agri- 
cultural Congress, which took place in Paris in 1878, the Society was 
officially represented by its then President and other delegates, the 
Council deemed it expedient that the Society should also be repre- 
sented at the Congress which took place in Vienna in September last, 
under the patronage of the Emperor of Austria. It will be grati- 
fying to the Members to know that the Society's participation in 
this Congress was warmly welcomed by the Executive Committee, 
and that all possible facilities were everywhere given to the Secre- 
tary, who represented the Society, for obtaining information as to 
