xvi Report to the General Meeting. 
Tlie Carlisle Meeting has been one of the most successful of 
the efforts of the Society to promote and extend to remote dis- 
tricts the practical advantages arising from the trial of Implements 
and the exhibition of Live Stock. The lateness of the season 
preventing efficient trials being made of the Reaping Machines 
at Carlisle, they were postponed until the end of August, when 
they took place at Abbot's Leigh, in Somersetshire, on a farm 
of Mr. Miles, M.P., tlie President of the Society, who placed for 
that purpose the whole of his crops, horses, and men, at the 
service of the Society, and most hospitably received at Leigh 
Court those who officially represented the Society on that 
occasion. 
The Council have already agreed to the Live Stock Prizs- 
Sheet for the Country Meeting to be held next year at Chelms- 
ford ; containing, in addition to the usual prizes, classes for 
Foreign Cattle and Sheep, and a distinct division for Dray 
Horses : the arrangement of the Prizes for Farm Poultry and for 
Agricultural Implements and Machinery being postponed until 
February. 
Mr. Miles, M.P., having in June last, as the President of the 
Society at that time, headed a Deputation of the Society to the 
French Agricultural Meeting at Paris, agreeably with an express 
invitation of the Imperial Government, has reported to the 
Council that the results of that mission were successful in every 
point of view. 
The Earl of Clarendon has continued to transmit to the Society 
the successive returns furnished by H. M.'s Consuls residing in 
various tropical districts where guano, nitrates, and other manuring 
deposits are thought likely to be discovered. The Council have 
again expressed to Lord Clarendon their deep sense of his Lord- 
ship's kindness in thus continuing so effectively to promote the 
objects of the Society, 
A claim having at length been made in form for the Society's 
£1000 Prize for a substitute for Guano, the Special Committee 
on that subject have taken it into their careful consideration ; 
