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Report to the General Meeting. 
time for their trial of the implements, without entailing on the 
exhibitors any additional loss of time or expense, it has been 
found necessary to devote the whole of the Tuesday in the week 
of the show to that important purpose. The first day of the 
public admission to the implement-yard will, consequently, be 
on Wednesday, the principal day of the show being, as hereto- 
fore, on the Thursday. The public working of the implements 
in the field will therefore be omitted, it having been found by ex- 
perience quite impossible to conduct that exhibition in a manner 
satisfactory either to the public or the implement makers. 
The Council have renewed for another year the grant for 
carrying on the analyses of the ashes of plants, a research which 
they fully believe will eventually lay the foundation for a secure 
progress in our knowledge of the conditions of vegetable growth, 
and the most economical and effective means of promoting it in 
our crops. 
In conclusion, the Council have every reason to view with 
satisfaction the steady advancement of the Society in its sphere of 
usefulness, and its combining by its central influence the efforts 
of Societies of a kindred character throughout the kingdom, for 
agricultural improvement and the public good. 
By order of the Council, 
(Signed) JAMES HUDSON, 
Secretary. 
London, Dec. 1848. 
CSeneral illlEctings of 1848—9. 
The General May Meeting, in London, on Tuesday, May 
22, 1849. 
The Annual Country Meeting, at Norwich, in 1849. 
The General Dkcemrer Meeting, in London, in December, 
1849. 
