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The Council have to report the favourable progress of the 
preparations for the country meeting of the Society, to be held 
this year in the city of Worcester, in the week commencing on 
Monday, the 20th of Jul}', which will be the day on which the 
judges will award the prizes in the classes of live stock. The 
show and trial-yards will be open as follows : — 
Wednesday, July 15. — The trial-yard open from noon till 
6 P.M. 
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; July 16, 17, and 18. — The 
trial-yard open from 9 A.M. till 6 P.M. 
Monday, July 20. — Cattle-yard open from 8 A.M., when the 
judges will commence inspecting the live-stock and making 
their awards ; the implement-yard open from 8 A.M. ; the show- 
yards will close at 6 p.m. 
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday; July 21, 22, 
23, and 24. — The general show open from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M. 
Mr. Dent, M.P., has accepted the office of steward of stock ; 
and Sir Archibald Macdonald that of steward of implements, in 
the place of the Hon. A. Vernon, resigned. The entries for 
implements are more numerous than in any previous year in all 
the three departments of shedding, seed and model sheds, and 
machinery in motion. 
Papers have been read at the weekly meetings by Mr. Taylor, 
of 88, Parliament Street, on Materials for Cottage Building ; by 
Mr, Bailey Denton, on the Effect of Under-drainage on the 
Rivers and Arterial Channels of the Country ; on the Adultera- 
tion of Oilcakes, by Professor Voelcker ; on Animal Parasites, 
by Professor Simonds ; and by Mr. Ruck, on Steam Cultiva- 
tion. 
The Council have decided, subject to the usual conditions, to 
hold the Society's country meeting next year at Newcastle-upon- 
Tyne. 
The country meeting in the year 1865 will be held in the dis- 
trict comprising the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and 
Somerset. 
By Order of the Council, 
H. Hall Dabe, 
Secretary. 
