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keepers' Association will continue their Prizes for Hives, Honey, 
and Bee Appliances. 
17. Butter-making Competitions will be continued at Warwick 
in four classes, five Prizes bci)ig offered in cacli class. There will 
iilso be a competition of Shoeing Siuiths practising in tlui counties 
comprised in the district of the Show. The competition will be in 
two classes, viz. for Koadsters and Dray Horses, and five Prizes will 
be offered in each class. The Worshipful Company of Farriers have 
, generously offered, as before, to provide the First Prize in each of 
I these two classes, and to bestow the Freedom of their Guild upon 
' the two first-prize winners. The Registration Committee of the 
Worshipful Company will also admit all the winners of prizes in 
these Competitions to the official register of Farriers or Shoeing 
Smiths free of charge. 
18. Seven Prizes amounting to 300^. have been offered in three 
classes by the Warwick Local Committee for the best-managed 
Farms in the county of Warwick. The number of farms entered 
for competition is twenty-six, and the Judges will start on their 
first tour of inspection early in January. 
19. At the request of the Pioyal Commission on Horse Breeding, 
the Council have agreed to continue for another year the grant of 
three premiums of 200/. each for Thoroughbred Stallions serving 
Mares in the Society's District F, in which the Country Meeting of 
1892 is to be held. The Warwick Local Committee have promised 
to bestow a Gold Medal upon the owners of each of the three 
Stallions winning the Society's Premiums, which will be competed 
for at the same time, and under the same conditions, as the twenty- 
two Queen's Premiums offered ))y the Royal Commission on Horse- 
I I breeding. 
' I 20. Memorials have been received from the Corporations of 
jj Chester and Manchester inviting the Society to hold its Country 
Meeting of 1893 in their i-espective cities. The customary Com- 
li mittee of Inspection has been appointed to report on the sites and 
i' other accommodation offered by each locality, and a ffnal decision 
as to the place of the Country Meeting of 1893 will be made by the 
Council in February next. 
21. As the Meeting of 1893 will be held in a district specially 
interested in dairying, it is proposed to offer in connection with 
that Meeting prizes for Cheese made in 1892 in addition to prizes 
for Cheese made in 1893, as well as increased prizes for dairy 
produce generally. 
22. The scheme for the National Registration of Farriers or 
Shoeing Smiths, in which the Society is associated with the Wor- 
shipful Company of Farriers and the Royal College of Veterinary 
' Surgeons, is now in full working oixlcr ; and it is gratifying to find 
that already 3,310 shoeing smiths have been placed upon the official 
