xvili Report to the General Meeting. 
It will be seen by this statement that the last Country Meeting of 
the Society, held at Shrewsbury, exceeded the first Meeting, held 
at Oxford, by double the entries of stock, and more than forty 
times the entries of implements ; while the expenses required at 
the Shrewsbury Meeting, to provide the increased amount of ac- 
commodation, have been only double those of the Oxford Meeting. 
But the number of persons who visited the Show-yard at Shrews- 
bury being, from local causes, much less proportionably than at 
Oxford, a heavy excess of expenditure over the receipts of the 
Shrewsbury Meetings has become chargeable on the funds of 
the Society. If, however, the multitudes who had thronged the 
former Country Meetings, in localities more accessible and more 
thickly populated than that of the North Wales District of the 
Society, in which Shrewsbury is situate, were wanting at the 
Society's recent Country Meeting in that town, the Council feel 
that a great principle of the Society has been carried out, in 
having held one of their Country Meetings in a district purely 
agricultural, remote from opportunities of direct information as 
to means of improvement, of personal inspection of the various 
breeds of stock, and of the peculiar character of the implements 
of distant districts. While, however, the assemblage that formed 
the Shrewsbury Meeting was less than on previous occasions, it 
comprised within its numbers a large 'proportion of the most 
eminent agriculturists from every part of the kingdom, including 
distinguished foreign visitors, and a deputation from the duchy of 
Mecklenburg-Schwerin ; and the splendid exhibition of Hereford 
cattle, and the quality of the show generally, both of stock and 
implements, constituted an exhibition fully equal in merit and 
intrinsic excellence to the more numerously attended meetings 
of previous years. The trial of Implements, both at Shrewsbury, 
and subsequently at Pusey in Berkshire, has proved highly satis- 
factory to the Stewards and Judges of that department, who have, 
however, reported to the Council that the trial made on the spot, 
and at the time of the Meeting at Shrewsbury, was fully adequate 
to the purpose, and might have spared the delay, expense, and 
trouble occasioned by a subsequent trial. In acknowletlgmeut of 
