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6. The Council have made further contributions amounting to 
200^., to the funds of the Mansion House United Association on Rail- 
way Rates, making in all 300?. subscribed by the Society towards 
safeguarding the interests of agriculturists in the Parliamentary 
inquiry now proceeding ; and they have also granted, out of the annual 
fund at the disposal of the Veterinary Committee, a sum of oOi'. towards 
the expenses of the International Congress of Hygiene which is to be 
held in London next August, and which will have a section specially 
devoted to the consideration of the relations of the diseases of 
animals to those of man. 
9. The Society's forthcoming Country Meeting at Doncaster 
promises to prove of great interest and exceptional magnitude. The 
total aniount of space allotted in the Implement Department is 1 2,743 
feet run, exclusive of open ground space, a.s compared witli 9,078 
feet at Plymouth last year, 15,602 feet at Windsor in 1889, 10,743 
feet at Nottingham in 1888, and 8,217 feet at Newcastle in 1887. 
"With the exception of the Exhibition at Windsor, the entry of Im- 
plements is, in fact, larger than any since the year 1884, when 12,904 
feet were allotted at the Shrewsbury Meeting. The total entries of 
Live Stock (horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs) are '2,240, as compared 
with 1,769 at Plymouth, 4,014 at Windsor, 1,875 at Nottingham, 
and 1,833 at Newcastle. The entries of Live Stock are thus nearly 
400 in excess of any previous ordinary Meeting of the Society, not- 
withstanding the operation of the new rule limiting to three the 
number of entries in the same class that can be made by any 
Exhibitor. Tliere are 717 entries of horses, 669 of cattle, 649 of 
sheep, and 205 of pigs, besides 803 of poultry, 55 of cheese, and 189 
of butter. 
10. The general arrangements for the Meeting are well advanced. 
The Implement Yard and the Daixy will be open to Merjbers of the 
Society and the public on Saturday, June 20, when tlie charge for 
admission to non-members will be 2s. Gd. The judging will take 
place in all the classes on Monday, June 22, when the charge for 
admission will be 5s. On Tuesday and Wednesday the charge for 
admission will be 2s. 6c?. each day ; and on the last two days, . 
Thursday and Friday, it will be Is. each day. 
11. Twenty-nine candidates have entered for the competitions 
of Buttermakers for the Society's Prizes and Certificates, to take 
place in the Showyard, from Tuesday, the 23rd, to Thursday, the 
25th June. Twenty-six shoeing-smiths practising in the Society's 
District E {i.e. the county of York) will compete for the Prizes 
offered for shoeing Hunters and Agricultural Horses on the Tuesday, 
Wednesday and Thursday of the Meeting. Arrangements are in 
progress for the delivery by experts of lectures on Dairy matters 
and on Horse-Shoeing in the course of the week. 
12. At the Show of Horses which was held at the Royal Agri- 
cultural Hall last March, under the auspices of the Royal Commis- 
