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more of punctuality than anything 
else : it had been stated that they 
could not produce a journal punctu- 
ally : the Journal had been produced 
to a day, and in this, as in other 
respects, great credit was due to the 
Editor. 
The adoption of the report was 
moved by Mr. Thomas Stirton, 
who referred to its satisfactory 
nature, though he rather regretted 
that the number of members had not 
increased. Still they had had a very 
great influx during the last few years. 
Mr. W. Lipscomb seconded the 
motion with the greatest pleasure, 
particularly when he saw the interest 
which was evinced by the Society 
with regard to technical instruction. 
Having every possible advantage over 
other countries in their pastures, in 
their stock, and he hoped in the 
intelligence of their agricultural 
community, not to be instructed in 
any single branch of that upon which 
they depended for their living was 
really a scandal to their country 
which ought to be removed. This 
could only be done in the way which 
the report very admirably set forth. 
He only wanted to say that — certainly 
throughout Yorkshire— there was a 
very extraordinary ignorance of the 
scholarships which were offered by 
the Society. He ventured to hint 
that some steps should be taken to 
render more public the advantages 
which youths could have by com- 
peting for them. He hoped that if their 
numbers increased those scholarships 
might be also increased, because he 
believed the scholarships coming from 
the Society were most valuable. 
Surgeon-Major Ince urged the 
futility of attempts to exterminate 
by slaughter the disease of pleuro- 
pneumonia. 
Mr. S. P. Foster referred to the 
work of the Aspatria Agricultural 
College, w r ith which he was closely 
connected, and which had been very 
successful, and said [that, owing to 
the money granted by Government, 
they had been able to give scholar- 
ships to poor boys attending their 
school. The first and second boys in 
the recent Junior Examinations of the 
Society would not have been able to 
attend the College if it had not been 
for the Government money. Of the 
two boys referred to, one was the son 
of a very poor farmer in Cumberland, 
and the other the son of a miner. 
Mr. Barham asked whether the 
Council had resolved to act upon his 
suggestion made last May, to have a 
single catalogue of all the exhibits in 
the showyard. 
The Chairman replied that it had 
been so decided, but it had not been 
considered necessary to mention it 
in the report, as it was a matter of 
detail. 
Mr. J. Kersley Fowler sug- 
gested that attention should be 
given to the instruction of agricul- 
tural children upon various branches 
of rural knowledge, such, for instance, 
as an acquaintance with the insects 
and plants which were valuable or 
injurious to the agriculture of the 
district in which they lived. 
Mr. Charles Laurie urged the 
importance of prizes being given to 
agricultural stallions and mares, as 
well as for agricultural geldings. 
The report of the Council was then 
unanimously adopted. 
Vote of thanks to Auditors. 
Mr. J. W. Bomber moved, Mr. E. 
Riley seconded, and it was unani- 
mously resolved, that a vote of thanks 
be accorded to the auditors, Messrs. 
Sherborn, Johnson, and Roberts, for 
their services during the past year, 
and that they be re-elected. 
Suggestions for consideration of 
Council. 
In response to the usual inquiry 
from the Chair, as to whether any of 
the members present had suggestions 
to offer for the consideration of the 
Council, 
Mr. George Barham wished to 
refer to one important matter which 
was agitating the agricultural world 
to a very considerable extent, and to 
which he found no reference in the 
report at all, viz. to railway rates. 
He did not know whether the gentle- 
men present were aware of the nature 
of the Board of Trade proposals. 
They had heard on many previous 
occasions that the onerous proposals 
of the railway companies had been 
superseded by the proposals of the 
Board of Trade. Those were so ob- 
