Country Meeting of 189S. 
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the proposed deputation. The Com- 
mittee had arranged a schedule of 
prizes for dairy produce, for poultry, 
and for butter-making competitions, 
which they had referred to the Stock 
Prizes Committee for inclusion in the 
draft prize-sheet for the Warwick 
Meeting. Letters suggesting that 
prizes should again be offered for 
cheeses made in the year previous to 
the Show had been considered. As 
the Country Meeting for 1893 woi\ld 
be held in a Dairy District, the Com- 
mittee recommended that notice be 
given of the intention of the Council 
to offer in connection with that 
Meeting prizes for cheese made in 
1892, in addition to prizes for cheese 
made in 189i5. They desired also to 
give notice of their intention to move 
that increased prizes for Dairy pro- 
duce be offered in connection with 
the Country Meeting of 1893, and 
that at their next meeting they would 
move for the renewal of their annual 
grant of 100/. 
Sir Nigel Kingscotb said that 
whilst the Council would be anxious 
not to appear discourteous, it did not 
seem to him that any practical ad- 
vantage would result from the at- 
tendance of the deputation, if, as he 
understood, the Dairy Committee 
were unanimous in their recommend- 
ation. 
Mr. Mainwarikg supported this 
•view ; and the Secretary was in- 
structed to write to the English 
Jersey Cattle Society sa5'ing the 
Council regretted they could not 
entertain their offer. 
International Agricultural Congress 
at The Hague. 
On the motion of the Hon. Cecil 
T. Paekee, seconded by Mr. C. S. 
Mainwaeing, cordial votes of thanks 
for assistance rendered during the 
recent visit of the Society's repre- 
sentatives to Holland were unani- 
mously passed to Her Majesty's 
Minister at The Hague, the Minister 
of Waterstaat, the President and 
Secretary of the Executive Committee 
of the International Agricultural 
Congress, the Consul for the Nether- 
lands in London (Mr. H. S. J. Maas), 
and others. 
Country Meeting of 1893. 
Invitations from the Corporations of 
Chester and Manchester inviting the 
Society to hold its Country Meet- 
ing of 1893 in their respective cities 
were further considered, and on the 
motion of the Hon. Cecil T. Paeker, 
seconded by Mr. Gaeeett Taylor, 
the Committee of Selection were in- 
structed to bring up at the next 
meeting a recommendation as to the 
appointment of a Committee of In- 
spection to visit the sites and other 
accommodation offered by each 
locality. 
Chicago Exhibition, 1893. 
The President reported that he 
had been requested by the Royal 
Commission for the British Section of 
the Chicago Exhibition of 1893 to 
act as Chairman of a Committee for 
Agriculture which the Commission 
we.'c desirous of forming, and he 
hoped that he should have the assist- 
ance of his colleagues on the Council 
in regard to the questions coming be- 
fore that Committee. 
Sate of next Meeting. 
A variety of other matters having 
been dealt with, the Council ad- 
journed until Wednesday, December 9 
next, at noon. 
