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Fej^ort to tJte General Mcetliuj^ 
Working Dairy will be open to Members of the Society and tlie 
public on Saturday, July 7. 
11. The last date of entry for Live Stock and Dairy Produce 
is May 12, but post entries, at double fees, will be received up to 
June 1. The last date of entry for Poultry is also June 1. 
12. The Butter-making and Horse-shoeing Competitions will 
be interesting features of the Nottingham Meeting. The Competi- 
tion of Butter-makers will commence on Tuesday, July 10, and 
will continue until the last day of the Show. Candidates will be 
divided into three classes, viz. Members of a Farmer's family, male 
hired servants, and female hired servants. In each class three 
Prizes will be given, of the respective value of 5Z., 3^., and 21. 
The winners in these classes will compete on Friday, July 13, 
for Champion Prizes, the Society's Silver Medal being awarded 
to the competitor who is adjudged first, and its Bronze Medal to 
the competitors placed second and third. 
13. The Horse-shoeing Competition will take place on 
Tuesday, July 10, for hunters, and Thursday, July 12, for 
agricultural horses. Five Prizes will be given in each class, 
to which the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society will add further 
amounts for smiths from the county of Lincoln who may be 
successful in winning the Society's Prizes. 
14. The Council regret that there have been no entries for 
the Prize of 2bl. offered by them for the best apparatus suitable 
for condensing milk on a farm. On the other hand, there have 
been forty-three entities for the Prizes offered for Hay and Straw 
Presses, to the amount of which the Council added in March 
last a further Pi'ize of 20^., for a press for old hay worked by 
hand-power. 
15. The Council have the utmost gratification in reporting 
to the General Meeting that Her Majesty the Queen has been 
graciously pleased to signify Her Majesty's acceptance of the 
office of President of the Society during its forthcoming Jubilee 
year. His Royal Highness the I'rince of Wales, to whom the 
Society is already so greatly beholden, has intimated his willing- 
ness to undertake on Her Majesty's behalf the more immediate 
duties of the Presidential office, 
