Report to the General Meeting. 
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A very exhaustive report of the trials, with concise descriptions 
of the Prize Implements, has been written by Mr. G. Purves 
Smith, and published in the last number of the ' Journal.' This 
report is elucidated by numerous tables of the Dynamometrical 
and other results, including the points awarded to the several 
implements by the Judges, and a large number of illustrations 
of the most prominent mechanical novelties. 
The immense number of Prize Implements rendered their 
special exhibition, on the plan that was first tried at Hull last 
year, particularly acceptable to those who were desirous of 
purchasing implements in those classes, as the task of compari- 
son would have been exceedingly laborious if they had been 
scattered though the longest range of Implement Shedding which 
has ever been erected in one of the Society's Show-yards. 
The Show of Horses at Bedford was also the largest which 
has hitherto been held under the auspices of the Society ; and, 
although larger numbers of cattle and of sheep have occasionally 
been entered, the Show of Live Stock, as a whole, accorded with 
the Show of Implements, in being the most extensive in the 
records of the Society. 
The competition for Lord Charles Russell's Cup, value 50/., 
with a purse of 50 sovereigns, and the Society's second prize of 
50Z., for the best-managed farm in Bedfordshire, was exceedingly 
close, and excited great interest in the county. The report on 
this competition, written by Mr. G. H. Sanday, one of the Judges, 
has also been published in the last number of the ' Journal.' 
The Council reported to the Annual Meeting, last May, that 
they wished to increase the usefulness of these competitions, 
especially with a view to obtaining, for publication in the 
' Journal,' more complete descriptions of the best examples of 
farm-management in the locality in which the Country Meetings 
are held. They, therefore, made known last July the prizes and 
conditions of the competition in connection with the Taunton 
Meeting, and fixed October 31st as the last date of entry. They 
offered a first prize of 50/., and a second prize of 25/., in each of 
the three following classes: — (1) Hill-farms, (2) Dairy-farms, 
and (3) Farms not qualified to compete in either of the fore- 
going classes. Two hill-farms, three dairy-farms, and twelve 
farms in Class 3, have been entered to compete for these prizes, 
and the Judges have already made their first tour of inspection. 
