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implements on that occasion were conducted with great care, and 
witli strict attention to results. In the testing of power, two 
important inventions weie introduced, which still further pro- 
moted that highly important object: namely, 1. Mr. Amos's 
improved dynamometer for self-registering, at one and the same 
time, the power and velocity required in working the various 
classes of machines exhibited ; and, 2, Mr. Balke's employment 
of a vibrating pendulum, to supersede certain personal super- 
intendence required previously in the trial of steam-engines. 
The Societv have been indebted to Messrs. Easton and Amos 
and the Messrs. Ransomes and Sims respectively for the use of 
those instruments at the Lincoln trials. 
The Council have accepted the invitation of the authorities of 
Carlisle to hold the Society's country meeting of 1855 in that 
city ; and measures have already been taken for preparing the 
land for the trial of implements and for the purposes of the 
show-yard. The Council have agreed to the following schedule 
of prizes to be awarded at that meeting in the classes of cattle, 
horses, sheep, and pigs, namely : — 
Short-horned cattle £160 
Hereford cattle IGO 
Devon cattle 160 
Scotch cattle 105 
Agricultural horses generally 150 
Clydesdale horses 50 
Leicester sheep 110 
Southdown and other shovt-woolled sheep .. .. 110 
Long-woolled sheep not Leicesters 110 
Mountain sheep 40 
Pigs 70 
Total £1,225 
Th ey have postponed to their first meeting in February the 
consideration of the question of prizes for farm poultry, and their 
decisions on those for agricultural implements and machinery. 
