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investigation and enquiry, that next rear's Show be held in 
that locality. 
The Country Meeting for the year 1887 will be held in the 
District which includes the Counties of Cumberland, Durham, 
Northumberland, and Westmoreland. 
The Council have to report that the vacancy in the post of 
Consulting Chemist, caused by the regretted death of Dr. 
\ oelcker, has been filled by the election of his eldest son, 
Dr. John Augustus Voelcker, Ph.D., B.A., B.Sc, whose testi- 
monials and antecedents, carefully considered with those of the 
other candidates for the post, satisfied the Council that he was 
eminently qualified to fulfil the duties which had been so long 
and efficiently discharged by his father. 
The recent Quarterly Reports of the Chemical Committee 
contain several cases of purchase bv ^Members of the Society 
of inferior and adulterated feeding-cakes. Improvements in 
mechanical means of pressure appear to have enabled some 
crushers to produce an otherwise pure cake very poor in oil, 
which is its most valuable feeding constituent ; other crushers 
translate the word " pure " to mean " as imported," with weed- 
seeds included ; and some again mix with the crushed linseed 
other wholesome materials, which, however, are not of the same 
money or feeding value as pure linseed-cake. 
' The Wobum Experiments have been continued and further 
extended through the liberalitv of the Duke of Bedford, five 
silos having been erected in the course of last year at Crawley 
Heath Farm. In connection with these a series of feeding 
experiments with silage has been in progress at Crawley Mill 
Farm, the interim results of which have recently been published, 
and in addition chemical investigations on the subject of 
Ensilage have been made in the Society's Laboratory. 
The Annual Excursion of Members to the Woburn Experi- 
mental Farm will take place on Thursday, June 4th. 
