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vators. The result of these trials will be made known at the 
Leeds Meeting. 
The Society having offered this year a prize of 100/. for the 
best tlioroughbred stallion, having served mares during the season 
1861, which, in the opinion of the Judges, is best calculated to 
improve and perpetuate the breed of the sound and stout thorough- 
bred horse for general stud purposes, and an unusually large 
amount for horses in other classes, they contemplate that great 
interest will be evinced at this Meeting by the breeders of horses 
and the public generally throughout the kingdom. 
The entries of implements and machinery in motion, to be 
exhibited at Leeds, closed on the 1st of May, and the Council 
have the satisfaction of stating that the applications for space in 
this department of the Show- Yard exceed those of any previous 
Meeting of the Society. 
The entries for live stock and flax, which will close on the 
1st of June, already give indications that this portion of the 
exhibition will be equally satisfactory. 
The arrangements for the Leeds Meeting, to be held in the 
week commencing Monday 15th of July, are advancing rapidly. 
The Show-Yard will be open as under : — 
Monday, for implements, and for stock (after the judges Lave 
made their a^vard) .. .. .. .. .. ..5 0 
Tuesday 2 G 
Wednesday .. .. .. .. .. .. ..2 6 
Thursday .. .. .. .. .. .. ..10 
Friday 10 
The successful competitors for the prizes offered by the Society 
have been, in Class IX., for 1859, Professor Tanner, of Queen's 
College, Birmingham, who gained the prize of lOZ. for his Essay 
on the Breeding of Farm Stock ; and in Class VIIL, for 1860, 
Messrs. Raynbird, of Hackwood Park, Basingstoke, the prize of 
lOZ. for their Paper on Adulteration of Seeds. 
In Classes VIII., for 1859, and VI. and IX., for 1860, the 
Essays were not considered worthy of the prizes, and the Council 
cannot forbear from expressing their regret that there was not 
greater competition. 
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant a site of 
twenty-six acres in the Regent's Park for the purpose of holding 
