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Monthly Council, July 30, 1890. 
Diseases (Animals) (Pleuropneu- 
monia) Act, 1890, conferring upon 
the Board of Agriculture further 
powers for dealing with cattle 
affected with pleuro-pneumonia, 
and to the correspondence on the 
subject of the Act which has passed 
between the Board and this Society, 
a copy of which is enclosed here- 
with. 
As the Board of Agriculture 
remark in their letter of the 16th 
July, the success of the Act will 
largely depend upon the cordial 
co-operation of the owners and 
breeders of stock, and of persons 
connected with the cattle trade 
throughout the country. 
It is essential for the proper per- 
formance of their duties that the 
Board should receive in every case, 
so soon as it is known, prompt and 
certain information of the existence 
of the disease; and the Council feel 
it incumbent upon the Society 
(which has taken so prominent a 
part in urging upon the (government 
central action of the kind now con- 
templated) to afford to the Board 
the utmost, possible assistance in 
carrying out the provisions of the 
Act. 
With this view the Council have 
desired me to impress upon every 
Member of the Society the great 
importance of prompt declaration 
of disease whenever it may appear, 
and of a loyal submission to the 
Orders which may from time to 
time be issued by the Board of 
Agriculture. 
The Council do not doubt that 
they will have your cordial support 
in carrying out these views, and that 
3 7 ou will use all jour influence in 
this direction in your own locality. 
I am, dear Sir, yours faithfully, 
Rayexsworth, 
President. 
Stock Prizes. 
Mr. SANDAY (Chairman) reported 
that, under Rule 9, Mr. Walter Gil- 
bey's British Ore III. was dis- 
qualified from receiving the Third 
Prize in Class 28 at the Plymouth 
Meeting, and that Mr. J. Porter's 
Andalusian Cock (No. 487) was dis- 
qualified from receiving the First Prize 
of Class 221 under Rule 03. The 
following were the exhibits suc- 
ceeding to the prizes, and the Com- 
mittee recommended that the awards 
of the Plymouth Meeting be altered 
accordingly : — 
Class 28.— Third Prize, Mr. "W. B. 
Longton's Crouton Magna Charta 
[awarded Reserve Number]. 
Class 221.— First Prize, Mr. D. 
Butterfield [awarded Second Prize]; 
Second Prize, Mr. Edwin Merrali 
[awarded Third Prize] ; Third Prize, 
Mr. W. F. Le Boutillier [awarded 
Reserve Number]. 
Implement. 
Mr. Fraxkish (Chairman) re- 
ported that six entries [since in- 
creased to nine] had already been 
received for the trials of threshing 
machines next year. 
The Committee had had before them 
a correspondence on the subject of an 
instantaneous butter maker, entered 
by the Dairy Supply Company as a 
" new implement " at the Society's 
recent Meeting at Plymouth. The 
regulations governing the entry of 
"new implements" for the Society's 
silver medals precluded the granting 
of a medal "unless the principle of 
the implement, or the principle of the 
improvement of it, be entirely new," 
and an exhibitor was required to 
"define clearly the exact nature of 
the novelty which entitles such im- 
plement to compete for a medal." 
(Regulation 25.) In the original 
specification of the machine in 
question, received by the Society on 
the 5th April, the article was de- 
scribed as "an instantaneous butter 
maker, Laval's patent, for the making 
of butter direct from milk," and in a 
further specification received from 
the Company on the 7th Way, in reply 
to a letter from the Secretary dated 
the 2nd of that month, they gave 
" the continuous manufacture of 
butter from cream" as "the precise 
definition of the exact nature of the 
novelty which entitles the implement 
to compete for a medal." In view of 
the positive instructions of Regulation 
25, the Judges felt that they were 
precluded from recommending a 
silver medal to this butter maker on 
the ground on which the Dairy Supply 
Company submitted it, viz., "the 
continuous manufacture of butter 
