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amples of tlie different classes of Long- wool. Short- wool, Down, 
and Mountain Sheep. The Council have, therefore, placed in 
the hands of the Commissioners the Catalogue of Stock exhibited 
and the list of Stock-prizes awarded at the last three Country 
Meeting's of the Society. 
The Council have fixed the commencement of the Wolver- 
hampton Meeting for Monday, the 10th of July. The arrange- 
ments for the arrival and departure of the Stock, and for the 
opening and closing of the Show-yard, remain the same as at 
Oxford ; but as the Trials of Implements will be of an unusually 
extensive nature, it has been decided that they shall commence a 
fortnight before the Show instead of a week. 
During the past half-year the Consulting Chemist of the 
Society has presented two Quarterly Reports on Manures and 
Feeding Stuffs forwarded to him for analysis by Members of the 
Society. These Reports, giving the names of the dealers and 
the analyses of the substances, are regularly published in the 
Agricultural Journals as well as in the Journal of the Society. 
This publication has produced some dissatisfaction on the part 
of vendors whose articles have been analysed ; but the Council 
are prepared to defend their action in this matter, and believe that 
no part of their work is more valuable to agriculture than the 
analysis and exposure of inferior or adulterated manures and 
feeding stuffs. In several instances the dealers have made money 
compensation to the purchasers, and the Council regret that in 
some of these the purchasers have been unwilling to give up the 
names of the dealers, resting satisfied with the settlement made in 
their individual cases. 
The variation in the quality of guano, as now imported, has 
been under the consideration of the Chemical Committee, and a 
communication has been addressed to Messrs. Thomson, Bonar, 
and Co., the agents of the Peruvian Government, suggesting that 
the Guano trade might be regulated by some standard-analysis, 
and that deductions from the price might be made according to 
the variations from such standard. Up to the present time, how- 
ever, no satisfactory settlement of this matter has been suggested. 
The Council have renewed the Education Grant for the year 
1871, subject to the following alterations in the scheme which 
was tried this year 
