viii Eeport to the General BIcetiiiff. 
been to disseminate whatever has come under its notice as most 
valuable for adoption, rendering that knowledge of instances of 
good farming more general, which had so long been confined 
to particular local districts of the kingdom ; and the Council 
entertain every well-grounded hope, that so long as the Society 
promotes as it does the united and friendly energies of the owners 
and occupiers of land in the common cause of the improvement 
of the country, its operations will continue equally practical and 
important, and tend to the mutual interest of such parties them- 
selves, as well as to that of the community at large. 
By order of the Council, 
(Signed) JAMES HUDSON, 
Secretary. 
London, Dec. 9, 1847. 
