xciv General Meeting of Governors and Memherrs, 
there. The Show was a great and a 
brilliant success. It was necessary 
that the Jubilee Show of the Society 
should be a brilliant success, and he 
heartily congratulated the Council 
upon the success of that Show, and 
upon the expenditure of the money 
which was required to bring it about. 
He referred with much gratification 
to the second contribution by the 
Council of 50Z. towards the funds of 
the Mansion House United Associa- 
tion on Railway Rates, though he 
thought, it would have redounded very 
much moreto the credit of the Society 
if the contribution had been 500Z. in- 
stead of 501. , considering the powerful 
bodies which they had to fight and 
how weak and divided the agricul- 
turists were. 
Surgeon-Major Ixce moved the 
following amendment to the report : — 
That this meeting, whilst ap- 
proving the report generally, dis- 
agrees with paragraph 23, which 
expresses gratification in the pro- 
posed transfer of the payment of 
compensation for the slaughter of 
kine suffering from alleged pleuro- 
pneumonia from local to imperial 
funds. 
In the course of a speech of some 
length, he expressed the opinion that 
the danger from pleuro-pneumonia 
was greatly overrated by alarmists, 
who counselled the wholesale slaughter 
of cattle as the only means of stamp- 
ing out the disease. He regarded the 
majority of cases, said to be pleuro- 
pneumonia, as simply cases of cat arrh , 
and he did not believe there had been 
a case of true, genuine, virulent pleuro- 
pneumonia in the country for many 
many months, if not years. 
The amendment having been se- 
conded by Mr. John Richabdsox, 
was put to the meeting and immedi- 
ately negatived, only the mover and 
seconder voting for it. 
The report was then adopted without 
further discussioD. 
Alderman John Baeker proposed 
a vote of thanks to the auditors, 
Messrs. A. H.Johnson, C. Gay Roberts, 
and FrancisSherborn.for theirservices 
during the past half-year. It was a 
gratification to know that the Society 
was prosperous and flourishing, that 
its numbers were increasing, and that 
there was a good balance at the bank. 
Whatever might be the case as to the 
refreshment arrangements at the 
showyard, they would agree with him 
that there was no weak point in the 
rendering or auditing of the Society's 
accounts. 
Mr. Geobge Gibbons seconded, 
adding that he hoped he might be 
allowed to say a few words with 
regard to a suggestion which he 
brought before the General Meeting 
in December last to the effect that 
the Council would do well to offer 
prizes for implements. He was very 
glad to see that that had been done. 
He had noticed in the daily press 
some statements made that the agri- 
cultural engineers did not seem to 
favour that proposal. He hoped it 
was not correct. They had very much 
to thank the agricultural engineers for 
in the improvement of their imple- 
ments during the past forty years. 
But they were not perfect. Many of 
them were too costly and too cum- 
brous — not what they hoped they 
would be. The fathers of the present 
implement makers did not despise 
the good offices of that Society, and 
they acquired very substantial com- 
petences thereby. He trusted that 
the sons would be equal to their 
fathers, and he hoped that they 
■would rise to the occasion, and, as a 
whole, come forward to compete in 
a manly, straightforward manner for 
the prizes which were being offered 
by that Society. 
The vote of thanks to the auditors 
having been carried unanimously, 
The President asked if any 
member had any remark to make or 
suggestion to offer which might be 
referred to the Council for their 
consideration. 
Mr. H.'D. Marshall wished to 
make one remark with reference to 
the observations of the last speaker. 
He was not a very old man, but he 
■was one of the fathers of their own 
(implement) business, which was a 
tolerably extensive one. The ques- 
tion of competing was one that lay 
deeper than the public were aware 
of. He thought he might say that 
there was a time when there were 
six — he believed there were now two 
— representatives of the implement 
makers upon the Council. Having 
regard to the contribution of the 
