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Report to the General Meeting. 
The Birmingham Meeting was one of the most successful 
which the Society has ever held, alike in the number and 
excellence of the entries of Live Stock and Implements, in the 
attendance of the public, and in the result to the Society's 
finances. The Local Committee were most liberal in providing 
the necessary accommodation for so large a Meeting, to the 
success of which they had also greatly contributed by the offer 
of numerous and handsome prizes, in addition to those usually 
offered for competition. The alteration made this year in 
making Wednesday the opening day of the Show, in place of 
Monday, caused the shilling days . to fall on Saturday and 
Monday, which are to a great extent holidays in large towns. 
This fact, aided by fine weather, and a remarkably attractive 
show, obtained the attendance of more than 120,000 people 
on those two days — a number which has never before been 
equalled at any of the Society's Country Meetings. 
The trials of Reaping-Machines were held at harvest- time on 
the Earl of Warwick's sewage-farm, at Leamington, and excited 
great interest among the competitors and the farmers in the 
neighbourhood. A preliminary Report on these trials, written 
by Mr. Jabez Turner, the Senior Steward, has already been 
published in the last number of the ' Journal ; ' and the usual 
descriptive and illustrated Report will be published in the forth- 
coming number of the ' Journal ' next spring. 
The competition for the substantial prizes offered by the 
Birmingham Local Committee for the best-managed farms in 
the County of Warwick was, as has been already announced to 
the Society, restricted to five entries in the large-farm class, 
while the class for smaller farms did not attract a single entry. 
The results of this competition have been admirably described 
in the Report by Mr. H. J. Little, one of the Judges, which is 
published in the last number of the ' Journal.' 
The arrangements for the Country Meeting, to be held next 
year at Newsham Park, Liverpool, have recently occupied the 
attention of the Council ; and they are glad to announce that 
the Local Committee are endeavouring to promote the success 
of the Meeting in the most liberal manner, by the offer of ad- 
ditional Prizes for Hunters, Ponies, and Cart-horses ; families of 
Shorthorns and of Herefords ; for Welsh, Longhorn, Ayrshire, 
and Galloway Cattle ; for Border Leicester, Cheviot, Black- 
faced, Herdwick, Lonk, and Carnarvon Sheep ; for dairy-produce, 
