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Rep(yrt io the General Meetin/j. 
sters, Dairy Cattle, Shropshire Sheep, Lincoln Sheep and 
Wool (subscribed by the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society), 
Butter, and local Hard and Soft Cheeses. Prizes will also 
be offered by the Shorthorn Society, the Shire Horse Society, 
and the Hereford Herd Book Society. 
Prizes amounting in all to 315?. for the best-managed 
Farms in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire have been offered 
in three classes by the Local Committee. Thirty-five Farms 
have been entered for competition, and the Judges will com- 
mence their inspection in the course of a few days. 
The number of samples analysed in the Society's Labora- 
tory during the past year has been 1,615, 1,536 of these being 
for Members of the Society and 79 in connection with the 
Woburn experiments and afB.liated Societies. The Consult- 
ing Chemist's reports have shown that adulteration of Lin- 
seed-cakes has been practised to a lai'ger extent than ever 
before. The passing of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1887, 
will, however, aid the efforts of the Society in securing that 
the supply of Linseed and other cakes shall be of a character 
strictly in accordance with the description or brand given 
to them. 
The Wobum experiments have been conducted as here- 
tofore, and reports of these, as well as of further experi- 
ments on Ensilage and on Sheep-feeding, form part of the 
contents of the Society's Journal. 
The experiments of Local Agricultural Societies have 
been continued for another year by the following Societies : — 
The Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture, the Eoyal Manchester 
Liverpool and North Lancashire Agricultural Society, and 
the Essex Agricultural Societ3^ 
During the past year 342 applications have been received 
by the Consulting Botanist from Members of the Society, 
chiefly for information as to the purity and vitality of seeds 
for pasture. Judging from the samples submitted, the use 
of Ryegrass as an adulterant of the Fescues has almost 
disappeared. There remains, however, in some samples a 
considerable quantity of worthless or injurious seeds, like 
those of Yorkshire Fog and the Hair grass, especially in the 
Meadow Fescue. The clovers (chiefly the White or Dutch 
