Report to the General Meeting. 
Vll 
In accordance with the Society's classification of Implements 
for trial at the Country Meetings, machinery suitable for steam 
cultivation will be tried at Wolverhampton. Keeping in view 
the increasing importance of steam-power as a means of good 
cultivation, and especially as a means of improving heavy land, 
the Council have extended and developed the scheme of prizes 
hitherto offered for Implements and sets of Tackle suitable for 
steam-cultivation. In order to meet, as far as possible, the re- 
quirements of every class of agriculturists, they have decided to 
offer prizes for the best combination of machinery for the culti- 
vation of the soil by steam power, under three heads, viz., (1) 
without imposing any restrictions, (2) limiting the weight of the 
engine to 10 tons, and (3) stipulating that the combination of 
machinery can be worked by an ordinary farm-engine, whether 
locomotive or portable. The President of the Society has still 
further extended this scheme by offering a Silver Cup value 100/. 
for the best combination of machinery for the cultivation of the 
soil by Steam Power, the cost of which shall not exceed 700/., — 
the Engine to be Locomotive, and adapted for threshing and 
other Farm-purposes. In this way the Council have endeavoured 
to include the whole subject so far as concerns the sets of Tackle ; 
and in addition, with a view to render the result as complete as 
possible, they have decided to offer a special prize for the best 
implement of each description suitable for Steam Cultivation, 
viz., Windlass, Snatch-block or a substitute, Plough, Digger, 
Cultivator, Harrow, Roller, Ehill, Skim-plough or Scarifier, 
Root or Stone Extractor, and Subsoiler. They also offer a Prize 
for the best Implement or part of tackle not qualified to com- 
pete under the foregoing heads, and for the best combination of 
any two or more of the above-mentioned implements, not quali- 
fied to compete for the general prizes. The Wolverhampton 
Prize-sheet further deals with the subject of Steam-traction, and 
prizes are offered for the best Agricultural Locomotive Engine 
applicable to the ordinary requirements of farming, and for the 
best Waggon for agricultural purposes to be drawn by the above- 
mentioned Engine. The Council have also decided to offer a 
series of Prizes for Implements and Machinery used in the culti- 
vation and management of Hops. 
The continued increase in the number of implements exhibited 
at the Country Meetings of the Society has again received the 
